Death at a Funeral

This nutty British comedy observes with jet black humor the myriad of outrageous calamities that befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets, when its patriarch dies an unexpected death. Soon, every complication imaginable - including the wrong corpse in the ...more

The marketing strategy for Death at a Funeral was pretty transparent: Gather together a bunch of Brits, test their sense of propriety through a handful of slapstick set pieces, and throw the word Funeral in the title, ideally calling to mind a certain breakout British hit starring Hugh Grant. But without the weddings to offset this trip to the funeral parlor, it's all just a bunch of broad gallows humor that's depressing and mean-spirited. The failure in tone may have something to do with the ...more