No more than 3 years after the 2007 Brit-com "Death at a Funeral" in the cinemas, this offered an almost scene for scene remake of variation to the original. Once again, a family gathered for the dignified funeral of a patriarch, elder son (Chris Rock) has prepared a eulogy, younger son (Martin Lawrence) has flown in on his fame as a bestselling author; favorite niece (Zoe Saldana) has brought her fiance ( James Marsden, Flipping out suspect), without that he inadvertently made a hallucinogen by their pharmaceutically-minded brother (Columbus Short, Cadillac Records included). You know, the usual fare for a funeral. The Joker is a stranger (Peter Dinklage, the only member of the cast of his role from the 2007 film repeat), which has something urgent to give the two sons. There is nothing terribly elevated on the slapstick, and a certain scatological sequence tests the limits of endurance (30 Rock's Tracy Morgan, unbounded in its usual form, takes the brunt of this scene). The unexpected director Neil LaBute, who shows off his sense of comic timing and keeps the entire apparatus to move along briskly. Besides the relatively subdued alternately by Rock and Lawrence, among the major actors Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Luke Wilson, and Loretta Devine. It is almost irrelevant to debate whether this version or ventilated improved the original, both hit their notes, which provide broad yuks and left feeling a mostly mechanical. But the task is completed - now rest in peace
- Actors: Loretta Devine, Peter Dinklage, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Martin Lawrence
- Directors: Neil LaBute
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: R (Restricted)
- Studio: Sony
- DVD Release Date: August 10, 2010
- Run Time: 92 minutes
Special Features
Commentary with Director Neil LaBute and Chris RockDeleted Scenes
Family Album
Death For Real
Death at a Funeral: Last Rites, Dark Secrets
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