Product: Death At A Funeral [Blu-ray] (2007)
Rating: 3.0
By the book.
Its not that the jokes aren't funny. The problem is, everything--EVERYTHING--is telegraphed in advance.The casket arrives and...guess what? Its the wrong guy! Bada bing! (there were only two options: (1) wrong guy or (2) empty, right?).One of the characters is a pharmacy student and he's been altering some capsules, re-filling them with LSD. You don't suppose someone will take them by accident, do you??? Mayhem ensues.The great Alan Tudyk (from Serenity) gets one of those pills and locks himself in the bathroom. You don't suppose he's gonna climb out the window, do you? And if he gets on the roof, maybe he'll threaten to jump!A guy who nobody in the family knows, shows up at the funeral. He's a dwarf (good, so far) but with the most androgynous face you've ever seen. He must have some connection with the deceased. Hmmm...you don't suppose this could be the gay joke, do you?And so it goes. Its so routine, let me just tell you want doesn't happen. The casket does not fall out of the hearse and tumble down a ravine. There are no animals barking or pulling at clothes. And none of the women get their skirts pulled off, leaving them screaming, running around in a slip.So yeah, its cute. But no better than a half-hour Judy Dench comedy you can catch on TV. I did enjoy the few funny exchanges between the widow and one of the wives. I don't remember the actual conversations but their thinly veiled, yet polite, dislike for each other was amusing.