Saturday
05Dec2009
Trailer - The Remake of 'Death at a Funeral'
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 9:52PM
Death at a Funeral is one of the best British farces in a long time. Please rent it. When I heard they were remaking it, and that the "they" involved the movie-murdering talents of Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence, I was deeply concerned. Oh, Rock's very funny...just not in movies.
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Reader Comments (9)
Why did the feel the need to remake an English movie? It looks like an Americanized Photo copy.
Completely different demographic for the first film, I guess. It's a great script and the original writer worked on this one, too. But even if they'd just re-released the original - or if they had just done a better job with it two years ago - I doubt it would have attracted a substantial urban audience, and that's clearly the goal with this one.
I agree, this movie is going for a completely different audience with this "remake".
It doesn't look offensively bad, but the casting of Peter Dinklage as the same exact role that he was in the original film shows how lazy this is- they're basically saying "let's do the same movie, but like exactly!"
its not lazy, its a cameo and a tip of the hat to the original, basically saying its the same story just told from a different perspective. and i hate to say it but it kinda looks funny...
It's too big and too important a role to be a cameo, unfortunately.
Looks very funny...Wow ...
I agree with your sentiments about farce...
Neil Labute aint a horrible choice, I mean he is a playwright and theatre guy/director/producer which is kinda funny bringing in for this but he does write pretty funny plays
As much as I don't want to admit it either...it does look like it has some promise. Martin Lawrence.....please....please don't suck like usual.
The original was very funny.
I'm intrigued here. Chris Rock doesn't look bad, and the cast looks good (aside from Martin Lawrence). Hopefully Martin doesn't drag this down.
think of it this way... labute re-wrote the dialog for 'nurse betty'... and in that film, directed chris rock to his best performance ever. labute also has a huge regard for british films, is pretty droll, and has impeccable timing. if anyone can do this, and do it well, it will be labute.