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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe 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.
- 75Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneDeath at a Funeral is lethal farce, combining hints of "The Lavender Hill Mob," doses of Joe Orton and a smidgen of the Farrelly brothers' scatology in its mix.
- 75Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerIt has the requisite amount of knockabout silliness.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIt goes soft, but even a gelded traditional farce is more potent than most of our slob comedies.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThis topsy-turvy funeral produces a number of smiles, giggles, pleasant guffaws and several solid, sustained laughs. Not a bad batting average as comedies go.
- 70VarietyVarietyWith 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.
- 70Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonShows us how funny farce can be -- even with the hokiest of premises -- in the hands of the British.
- 63PremiereGlenn KennyPremiereGlenn KennyThe dumbness doesn't kill Death at a Funeral, but it certainly weakens it.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumBy 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.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceDeath 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.