Product: Death At A Funeral [Blu-ray] (2007)
Rating: 5.0
My husband and I laughed so hard I thought one of us was going to burst something
What can you say about a film that starts off with the mortician delivering the wrong body to the family? Like so many well-intended family events, "Death at a Funeral" just keeps going downhill from there.Brothers Daniel (McFadyen) and Robert (Graves), are quarreling over who is to pay the bills for the funeral. Daniel and his wife Jane (Keeley Hawes) want to get out of the family house and buy their own flat. Robert, the best selling NY based novelist thinks Daniel and Jane have 'sponged off the family too much.'Martha (Daisy Donovan) is bringing Simon (Alan Tudyk) to meet her family for the first time and tell the folks they are going to get married. Unfortunately, Simon's nervous and Martha gives him what she thinks ia a Valium from her little brother Troy (Kris Marshall) stuff. Turns out, that pill wasn't a Valium--it was a hallucinogenic as strong as LSD and Simon is not making the kind of impression he'd like to have made on his future family.Then, of course, there's the blackmail attempt from the decedent's former lover, the crotchety old uncle, and more. It's just one crazy madcap adventure after another. We barely stopped laughing to catch our breath between episodes.I may well go back and see this film in the theatre before the run is off. I'm certainly going to buy "Death at a Funeral" in DVD.