Yeah...not that funny.
I really like Ricky Gervais. I'm a huge fan of Extras, an absolutely brilliant television show from Gervais and writing partner, Stephen Merchant. The bad news for Gervais here is, they didn't write this script. There's nothing new here. There's nothing charming or even particularly interesting about the characters or the situations they find themselves in. The tag line for Ghost Town was "He sees dead people...and they annoy him." Well, the random dead people were the least annoying thing in this film.
Gervais plays an annoying little dentist, haunted by Greg Kinnear, in his most annoying role to date. Kinnear has unfinished business with his widow, the beautiful, smart and successful, Tea Leoni. Since Gervais is the only living person who can talk to the dead, he does Kinnear's dirty work for him. In this case, that consists of breaking up her new relationship with her beautiful, smart and successful fiance...a charming as always, Billy Campbell. Long story short...she throws over Campbell for Gervais. And, I suppose they live happily ever after. Why would she do that? I have no fucking idea.
Kristen Wiig has a funny bit as a spray tan loving doctor, and it was nice to see Campbell, although he was rather wasted here. And I mean, not used properly, as opposed to "wasted"! Also, a neat cameo from actor Aasif Mandvi as Gervais' partner.
If you want to get something funny from Netflix, I suggest you skip this one, and go for any or all three seasons of Extras. Or, just go to youtube and look up Gervais' speech at the Golden Globes. Which was way funnier then Ghost Town.
I'm going to add a plus to the earned D grade simply for Alan Ruck and Dana Ivey as two of the dead people, who have nice moments when their "issues" are resolved.
Kristen Wiig has a funny bit as a spray tan loving doctor, and it was nice to see Campbell, although he was rather wasted here. And I mean, not used properly, as opposed to "wasted"! Also, a neat cameo from actor Aasif Mandvi as Gervais' partner.
If you want to get something funny from Netflix, I suggest you skip this one, and go for any or all three seasons of Extras. Or, just go to youtube and look up Gervais' speech at the Golden Globes. Which was way funnier then Ghost Town.
I'm going to add a plus to the earned D grade simply for Alan Ruck and Dana Ivey as two of the dead people, who have nice moments when their "issues" are resolved.
Final grade D+
1 comment:
Thanks for the tip. I will skip this film.
GO TAR HEELS!!!
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