Monday, May 10, 2010

Death At A Funeral


So it was kind of a while ago when I saw this movie so the review might be a little lacking but that's ok because so was the movie. This is a remake of the 2007 British version. I haven't seen that version but I hear it was better than this one.

This is the story about the funeral of Aaron's(Chris Rock) father. Aaron meets with the funeral service to review his father in the casket and finds out that they sent him the wrong casket.(this is the scene from the previews that I saw a million times.) After this everything else just goes terribly wrong. This is a comedy of errors to say the least. Aaron's brother Ryan(Martin Lawrence) shows up but only manages to make things worse. He's a famous author and is the stereotypical "famous" relative. When then see Elaine(Zoe Saldana) and her boyfriend Oscar(James Marsden). As I'm sure you saw in the previews, Oscar accidentally takes acid basically and is tripping out for the entire movie. Then Norman(Tracy Morgan) and his friend Derek(Luke Wilson) go to pick up Uncle Russell(Danny Glover). Everybody finally gets to the funeral and things just continue to go down hill from there. But don't worry it all works out in the end. Yay.

This movie was ok. I wanted it to be funnier and I thought with the cast that it would be but it wasn't. It is kind of strange to take a british script and try do it as a black comedy. I thought that it would have been better if it had more black humor in it kind of like a "Life" or "Friday." Anyway, there were some parts that I laughed very hard at but overall it fell flat. I mean drug humor is another thing that gets to my funny bone so I liked James Marsden on acid. I think that the best people in it were Tracy Morgan, Danny Glover and James Marsden. They kept the film from being to boring and monotonous.(yeah I said monotonous)

Overall I give it a low C. Redbox it one night if your board and there is nothing better to get.

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BK(Bee's Knees): This is primarily reserved for classics like "The Godfather" I don't see any new releases making this grade any time soon.

A: This is for a great movie that is destined for my dvd collection and would see multiple times in theaters. They have that extra something that stands out.

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SB(Sucks Balls): This category is for movies that just really suck balls. This one, like the BK category, most movies wont fall into but I still have it for movies like "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" remember that movie, man it really sucked balls.

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