DEATH AT A FUNERAL - REVIEW

This is a laugh out loud movie...

We had thought that it would be very predicatible, you know the sort of thing - funeral jokes etc. That sort of thing.

We were wrong. We laughed from the opening sequence. It was predictable with a street map and a coffin moving along it, but it was funny. Was it the day, our mood or the fact the movie is very funny in a slap stick, farcical way? It was probably all those things. I laughed out loud, I was moved by the emotions and at others times caught up in the tension that was there.Well known faces popped up - Matthew MacFadyen, Jane Asher, Robert Graves Peter Egan and Peter Vaughan etc. The story is the funereal of Daniel and Robert’s father at his country estate and the dysfunctional family that is brought together for the event. There is also a blackmailer who has come to expose unsavory episodes in the father’s recent past. Some of it is predicable, some plain silly, some scatological and some gloriously funny. It is also a family drama and full of family problems.If you want to lighten the day go and laugh. We all need something to make us laugh. The shots of the inside of this country house are fascinating – what a beautiful house.

Let me know what you think. I need to get someone elses opinion.