Original and Entertaining.

Rating: 9/10 (3 May 2005)

A remarkable work of entertainment. Just the idea of a "bio-exorcist" to remove annoying and pretentious people from one's former home is a great idea, taking the ghost's side of argument. Michael Keaton is perfect in what, I think, is his most indispensable, if not greatest, screen performance to date. This is probably the most entertaining 92 minutes with nothing to say I have ever watched. I mean it as a compliment. One absurd turn after another without any hidden message, sappy preachment, drippy love stories, horror clichÃ©s or trite moral-of-the-story at the end. Well balanced use of both verbal wit, broad humor (e.g. the run up to "Nice f---- model"), really off the wall segments ("Day-O" into the dinner and they LIKE it) and the refreshing absence of gratuitous shots to the crotch, body functions etc that pollute so much current comedy. And at the end, Lydia can drop her goth act (sort of silly when you know real dead people) and everybody just gets along, except maybe Otho even after he's burnt and buried the polyester and decontaminated himself from the exposure.