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The traditional British drawing-room comedy reconditioned, and then deconstructed.
The opening proceeds slowly, properly -- except for a casket delivered to the funeral with the wrong body inside. That gaffe corrected, the family and mourners begin to arrive. Unfortunately one of them has been fed not a Valium for his nervousness, but what turns out to be LSD. When the drug hits, is when things begin to go wrong.
Hilariously wrong.
But after that, things go terribly wrong.
And never stop.
The whole British cast of characters and eccentrics is present, from the choleric, elderly Uncle Alfie through various high-society Dames and helpless men to even a Reverend Chasuble. But an American midget, played by the ever-wonderful and handsome Peter Dinklage, nearly steals the show. Except, that is, when Alan Turyck is on stage as an acid-besotted bystander.
And "on stage" it is, because here is a film that barely moves outdoors and plays all the better for its confinement.
The DVD, while in anamorphic widescreen, is somewhat soft in focus but one soon gets around that, as the tears in one's eyes will blur the picture anyway.
clark
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Topic - Watched Death at a Funeral last night -- and still grinning today. - clarkjohnsen 08:54:26 05/31/08 (19)
- Be sure to watch the bloopers some time. - Harmonia 20:27:19 05/31/08 (13)
- RE: Be sure to watch the bloopers some time. - patrickU 10:39:33 06/01/08 (12)
- I'm in the middle... some good laughs for me but since one of the main storylines felt so fake - sjb 16:29:43 06/01/08 (11)
- The way he handled the toilet paper so... carressingly? - clarkjohnsen 09:57:59 06/02/08 (2)
- Sure... some of the things he did were genuine but they were done in a cliche'd way - sjb 10:41:42 06/02/08 (1)
- Cliche'd stroking of a roll of toilet paper? OK, if you say so. - clarkjohnsen 07:37:50 06/03/08 (0)
- Maybe because seeing someone stoned on acid is not funny, and since this was a comedy...nt - jamesgarvin 18:39:50 06/01/08 (7)
- One word: 200 Motels. nt - clarkjohnsen 09:58:36 06/02/08 (1)
- I met Frank Zappa once. - sjb 18:03:05 06/02/08 (0)
- No... I've seen it done well - sjb 20:22:30 06/01/08 (4)
- Well? Or Funny? I was writing about funny. nt - jamesgarvin 20:56:34 06/01/08 (3)
- Done so well - and realistically - that it was hysterical. nt - sjb 21:10:52 06/01/08 (2)
- Examples?nt - jamesgarvin 06:51:23 06/02/08 (1)
- It's in the essence of the portrayal. nt - sjb 10:46:37 06/02/08 (0)
- I agree with all - PhilJ 16:31:07 05/31/08 (0)
- you would have enjoyed this in a theater - tunenut 14:14:17 05/31/08 (2)
- I agree; but next time, I'm having people over! nt - clarkjohnsen 10:12:53 06/01/08 (0)
- I saw it twice in theaters. - Harmonia 20:19:01 05/31/08 (0)
- RE: Watched Death at a Funeral last night -- and still grinning today. - Analog Scott 10:08:58 05/31/08 (0)
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