Death at a Funeral Review by Zara (3.5 Stars)

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Starring:
Matthew MacFadyen, Rupert Graves, Alan Tudyk, Daisy Donovan, Kris Marshall, Andy Nyman, Jane Asher, Keeley Hawes, Peter Vaughan, Ewen Bremner, Peter Dinklage, Thomas Wheatley, Peter Egan, Jeremy Booth, Angela Curran, Kelly Eastwood, Gareth Milne, Brendan O'Hea

Directed By:
Frank Oz

Written By:
Dean Craig

Death at a Funeral (2007)

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Movie Review by Zara

March 28th, 2008

Granted, I watched this movie under the influence of drugs less potent than the ones that actor Alan Tudyk takes in the film, but the very fact that I got to see his pale, bare ass made me happy. I just wish there'd been a little more Dyk from Tudyk. Ha.

I think what frustrates people most about comedies that involve funerals is that we shouldn't be joking when death is afoot. And this is very subtle humour mixed in with some outrageous and gratuitous moments (the body falling out of the coffin in front of the widow was wrong).

Peter Dinklage continues to impress, here playing the secret "mister-ess" to the deceased and demanding to be paid some money because he feels slighted at getting left out of the will. Bringing pictures to embarrass the family with, there is then the mix up of overdosing the dwarf on "Valium" which is really only what the bottle label says since the contents really contain a hardcore version of acid. After believing that Dinklage is dead from hitting his head on a coffee table, the sons shove his body into the casket with their father in a cheap joke fashion.

There is a lot that shouldn't happen happening in this film. Which can make people go one way or the other. Either you embrace a movie for its outrageousness or you condemn it for being crass.

Personally, I just thought it was lightly funny, a little over-the-top at times and nothing too much to crow home about.

Without Dinklage and Tudyk, however, this movie would have been a total bore.

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