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Director Frank Oz [aka Oznowicz] was actually born in England, and he was raised in America. A very talented actor, with 104 film appearances on his resume -he also specialized in “reveal work”. He and Jim Henson created the whole MUPPETS phenomenon. He created multiple characters, the most eminent of which were Kermit and Miss Piggy. He is equally well known for being the drawl of Yoda for the George Lucas STAR WARS series. As a director he has made 14 films, varying from THE Sad CRYSTAL (1982), through the classic fun of WHAT ABOUT BOB? (1991) . All the plan across the spectrum to the crime thriller, THE Get (2001), with Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, and Marlon Brando. DEATH AT A FUNERAL (2007) represents his triumphant return to comedy; and what a sad and palatable foray it is.
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A farce of the first order, this film is about a normally dysfunctional family who are forced to confront each other at a patriarch’s funeral. The fantastic script was written by Dean Craig. He is a young writer/director with only four films to his credit. In 2003 he gave us DIRTY Limited SECRETS. His script for FUNERAL was filled with wafts, even wads of wit, had terrific internal timing, a solid structure and location, with a appetizing and irreverent sense of humor. It is a film so completely farcical that I occupy it could be produced on stage, in live theatre. All those slamming doors, crossed-over plotlines, and zany characters would lend themselves to some scandalous theatrical moments.
Attending the film I was blissful to give in to the instant giddiness that most of the audience immediately lapsed into -beginning to titter and then guffaw while the opening credits were unruffled rolling. If laughter is the “best medicine”, and we all know that it is, then this film should be mandatory viewing, and the tickets should see like a medical prescription pad. Viewing this film is definitely great for “what ails you.”
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Lost cherish, incorrect identities, bumbling morticians, caskets that reach alive, those unpleasant and unlit secrets regarding the patriarch’s “special needs”, hallucinogenic bursts of inhibition, nudity, toilet hi-jinks, suppressed sex, unrepressed sex, deviant sex, pregnancy, predispositions and misunderstandings, jealousy, an ice queen for a wife and mother, a Spartacus toga party, a centurion’s costume, an unpublished original, harping, cajoling, bondage, wrestling, roof-romping, with enough turnabouts, fop haws, reversals, and surprises to flesh out three other comedic films, plus a really righteous cast -makes this darkest of drawing room comedies land on its dancing feet somewhere lodged half plot between Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward, or say George Bernard Shaw and Harold Pinter, who is emulating Carl Reiner, who collaborated with Mel Brooks, after consulting with Woody Allen. This solid limited film my not be tinged with “greatness”, but it is absolutely the funniest evening I have utilize in the theater this year.
Like so many others this viewer avoided the theatrical release and deferred to the DVD release of DEATH AT A FUNERAL, thinking that a humorous pick on a potentially morbid subject might not be very curious. Couldn’t have been more heinous! This is the kind of humor the Brits do so well – incandescent, expertly delivered dialog and action that can gain even the most unlikely situations hilarious. Writer Dean Craig and Director Frank Oz have created a farce and have effect this tongue in cheek area in the hands of some the best of the British actors. The result is a spinning top that only gradually allows the viewer to breathe from laughing during the clever final credits.
The father of a very dysfunctional family has died and son Daniel (Matthew MacFadyen) and his wife Jane (Keeley Hawes) have agreed to host the funeral. After the mortuary first delivers the rotten corpse the tone is station for all the contaminated things to happen. The arriving family is a bizarre clan of characters – a novelist living beyond his means in Fresh York (Rupert Graves), a man who unwittingly mistakes an hallucinogen for Valium and ends up on a move that entertains all, a ‘drug distributor’, a crotchety ancient man with toilet problems, and the usual stuffy and goofy associates that so often populate the British comedies. And when it seems as though dinky else could assist sanity, up pops a figure produce the US (Peter Dinklage) with a secret about the deceased and proceeds to cause a place that becomes the focal point of this zany funeral.
Saying too great about each of the characters diminishes the surprises that abound. Were it not for the fact that each of the actors in the film is ‘top drawer’ this dinky movie could have become mawkish or tasteless, but this cast and director have produced one of the most refreshingly comic films of the past year. Grady Harp, February 08
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