Ghost Town (2008)
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
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Lack of good storyline.
What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
I find it hard to believe that anyone could like this turd of a movie. Dr. Bertram Pincus is as unlikable a character as has ever been written... and he's our "hero". Greg Kinear's underwear smear, AKA Frank, is even worse. How are we suppose to care about a man, living or dead, who is happily cheating on his wife with a much younger woman. When his character died at the beginning of the movie, I clapped. I clapped as happily as I did when Steven Seagal's Lt. Col. Travis died at the beginning of Executive Decision.Unfortunately, I knew Frank would be haunting me for the rest of the movie. Trying hard to make me care for him. I don't. I want him to rot in hell for eternity, and Dr. Pincus can join him. Why should I want Pincus and Gwen to live happily ever after? Pincus is the slime on the heels of humanity, just like Frank was before. Gwen deserves better.
The first half an hour or so of 'Ghost Town' is interesting and refreshingly different. I've never seen a film with a plot quite like it and I'm surprised they didn't make more of it. After the initial scenario is setup, the film loses ideas and direction and becomes dull and stale. There just isn't enough material to fill the film and a noticeable lack of humour for a comedy.Gervais is almost always high energy but he was as close to boring as I've ever seen him in 'Ghost Town'. I don't think the role suited him, he thrives with a script that is filled with jokes but the humour in 'Ghost Town' is sporadic and truthfully not that funny. 'Ghost Town' start well but soon runs out of ideas and fizzles away into boredom.
Gervais fans will enjoy an easy watching, feel good film, with the trademark Comedy Writer's awkward demeanour and funny lines. This is as close as we can get to Romantic comedy for Gervais, where oodles of sloppiness would seem out of place.A moral to the story kind of tale, where everybody loves an underdog!
Quaint, sweet, funny feel-good romantic comedy. Quite funny, especially pretty much every time Ricky Gervais opens his mouth! The romance-drama side, often the area that wrecks romantic comedies, is also good: sensitive, but not lame or too soppy.Reasonably innovative central plot, though it wears a bit thin towards the third quarter. Not surprisingly, this is where the plot seemed to drift a bit. Ending was unpredictable, and nice, though.Ricky Gervais is superb in the lead role and Tea Leoni shines. Even Greg Kinnear does OK and manages to not wreck the movie. Good to see Aasif Mandvi, one of the many talented Jon Stewart sidekicks on The Daily Show, get a major role, and do a good job.