50
Death at a Funeral never even approaches the best of Oz's oeuvre. It's his first movie that begs for the laugh track; they'll love it on BBC America.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
It goes soft, but even a gelded traditional farce is more potent than most of our slob comedies.
70
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Shows us how funny farce can be -- even with the hokiest of premises -- in the hands of the British.
63
The dumbness doesn't kill Death at a Funeral, but it certainly weakens it.
75
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
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.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
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.
58
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
By the end of Death at a Funeral's effortful farce about busted British propriety, you may feel that peculiar facial ache that comes from wishing to laugh with no really satisfying release.
75
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
It has the requisite amount of knockabout silliness.