Saturday, October 11, 2008

Death at a Funeral


Judy and I got a good many laughs from Death at a Funeral, a wacky British farce that gets funnier and more frenetic as it goes along.  Just about everything that can go wrong at a funeral does go wrong.  You have the family quarrels, the person with the surprising secret about the deceased, the grumpy old man, the guy on drugs, and lots more.  None of this is very sophisticated, and some of it's downright gross.  It's certainly not PC, so don't say I didn't warn you.

My only real complaint is the ending, which is brought about in a burst of fairy dust.  And there's one really big loose end that even the fairy dust doesn't explain.  But what the heck.  It's got a good many laughs, and that's no small thing.

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