Product: Death At A Funeral [Blu-ray] (2007)
Rating: 4.0
English Screwball Drawing Room Style Comedy
Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen) presides over a family funeral as the one in charge of the decedent family member's funeral. He is also the straight man for all of these goofy characters who attend it. Those who attend the funeral are a madcap bunch who promise mirth and mayhem at every turn and usually deliver. I did not find this rolling on the floor funny as so many did but I enjoyed it. I thought it was a good night's entertainment on DVD. As you might expect at a family based funeral, all the typical family repressed hostilities come to the fore. Every grievance from the past, concern over property and pecking order within the family eventually works itself to the surface to be dealt with farcically anew. It's taken me a long time to enjoy British comedy. I now do enjoy it quite regularly. However, it may indeed help to be a Brit for this to make it all the way to five stars for a viewer. For me it was four stars.