NipPierce Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Andrew W MacFadyen This is a Hollywood made version of a 2007 British comedy of the same name. The script and scenes are almost identical to the original but it lost something on the journey across the Atlantic. The only major change was to replace the uptight British upper middle class family setting for an equally uptight American upper middle class Afro- American family but it lacks the crisp punch of the original. Don't get me wrong this isn't a bad movie it is well acted, well directed and has a a good script but it just misses its' target. I would highly recommend watching the original version which has Mathew MacFadyen, Kris Marshall, Keeley Hawes, Rupert Graves and Jane Asher in the cast and I rate it as one of the best comedies I have ever watched.Trivia, there is another remake in Hindi entitled "Daddy Cool" (2009).

adi_2002 This film is a remake of the 2007 British version. The difference is that the original version I can put it in the top 10 of the best comedies I seen but this one could not even be in top 1000. It's the same notion, same situation, the only thing that changed were the actors. Too bad he did not come out a little better considering that some big names of comedy could be seen but even they do not have managed to somewhat save this failure. Can not be considered a quality movie when stealing an idea and not improve anything, add something different for the audience to be satisfied to have seen a better movie than the original. My opinion is that this movie was not supposed to exist.

bernardino002 My movie choice for this assignment is "Death at a Funeral". It is a comedy movie that was telling the story of a family who organized the funeral of their father. Aaron and his wife were not that rich so they live in their father house. Ryan was a successful writer but selfish who did not like to help financially for the expanses of the funeral of their father. For the funeral, many relatives were invited include Oscar who by mistake took a drug instead of a pill so he was embarrassing everybody in the funeral. The mayor characters in the film were Martin Lawrence as Ryan Barnes, Chris Rock as Aaron Barnes, Peter Dinklage as Frank Lovett, James Marsden as Oscar. Aaron organized the funeral of his father when his brother Ryan did not take a serious in the organization of the funeral when he comes there. It is like a funeral was an opportunity for the whole family to come see each other again. At the funeral, uninvited man Frank showed up and threatened Aaron and Ryan to give him a money or he would tell their mother about his relationship between him and their father. Aaron told Ryan to pay him but he refused to do it. Frank got mad and Ryan and Aaron tried to avoid the drama. Ryan and Aaron decided to put him in the coffin with their dad because Frank hit his head on a coffee table and lose conscience. Frank waked up in the coffin and got out and traumatized everybody in the funeral. The characters in the film were great and they played well their role. From the begging to the end of the movie, each character was well engage by presenting their role in the movie. Uncle Russell played the role of entertaining and kept the audience in the mood of laughing. In the film we can see how involving and unique each character was in his role in the movie. The lighting in the movie was great. The light in the movie reinforce the mood of the scene and create an effective visual image. Different camera angles were used in this movie to create and effective sense of visual balance between one shot and another. The camera angles created emotional attitudes in the film. For example when Aaron was delivered his message about his father at the end of the movie, I saw how the camera angle presented that emotional connection in the look of Aaron and other people.

chris dimarino Death at a funeral was just not that funny. I mean if there was anything more to this movie aside from as a dedicated comedy, that might have been acceptable. But this movie has far too many names for the amount of laughs. They play their parts well enough, maybe the script is to blame. James Marsden provided the only real consistently funny presence. Call my a Kevin Hart fan, but his cameo was also funny. That's about it. Tracy Morgan is his typical outrageous self, so if you enjoy that there's plenty. But Chris Rock in enamored with playing the serious role and Martin Lawrence's lines just didn't hold much comedy.This movie was shot well but also felt too long. It seemed like someone took the core concept from the British movie, wrote a few jokes and cast a lot of stars.I wouldn't recommend this movie to many. There are so many good comedies out there that this doesn't really stack up.