Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Death at a Funeral

Cast : Mathew Macfadayen, Peter Dinklage, Rupert Graves
Director : Frank Oz

Tagline : From director Frank Oz comes the story of a family that puts the F U in funeral

I'm sorry. I didn't laugh at all at this movie. Yes, it was in the genre of "whatever can go wrong will go wrong." The unending chaos hinged mostly on one thing: The fact that the idiot pharmacy student kept losing his bottle of "Valium" which actually contained very strong hallucinogens. What kind of idiot would put such things in a Valium bottle, first of all, and, second, not keep a very strong eye on the bottle at all times? I mean, to some people, the contents were pure poison! If you had a bottle of arsenic, would you just casually keep "losing" it? I personally hate hallucinogens and know that if I were forced to take them (again), I would just lose it altogether, maybe forever! That is NOT funny to me! I would have much preferred it if the "victims" in this movie knew full well what they were ingesting and, perhaps, that what they ingested were something more benign, like marijuana.

At any rate, this movie was rather slapstick, I felt. Too much frenzy.


Rating :
* *

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