Death at a Funeral (2007) Critic Reviews

The humor manages to be simultaneously sophisticated, supremely silly and very dark.Read the full review

The lack of propriety and solemnity is precisely what makes this comic farce so uproariously funny.Read the full review

The movie is part farce (unplanned entrances and exits), part slapstick (misbehavior of corpses) and part just plain wacky eccentricity. I think the ideal way to see it would be to gather your most dour and disapproving relatives and treat them to a night at the cinema.Read the full review

Though it grows silly and sentimental, Funeral scores enough big laughs to make its shortcomings eminently forgivable.Read the full review

The film's climax is nothing short of hilarious. And Death at a Funeral doesn't discriminate when it comes to the type of humor it embraces it. Everything is in there, from physical hijinks to verbal repartee to naked man jokes to drugs and gross-out stuff.Read the full review

With a circus parade of mourning Brits and enough appalling circumstances to set proper Englishness back to the Dark Ages, Death at a Funeral pits decorum against sex, drugs and dysfunction.Read the full review

Shows us how funny farce can be -- even with the hokiest of premises -- in the hands of the British.Read the full review

This topsy-turvy funeral produces a number of smiles, giggles, pleasant guffaws and several solid, sustained laughs. Not a bad batting average as comedies go.Read the full review

There’s no dearth of rude humor on screens right now, but Death at a Funeral stands apart because its characters -- mostly reserved upper-middle-class British folk who have gathered to bury a patriarch -- are determined to keep a stiff upper lip no matter what.Read the full review