I don't know what exactly went wrong with this film; I guess they wanted to make a comedy, and they couldn't figure out whether to make it a romantic comedy or a black comedy. It could perhaps have been both, but that would require for it to start out as both. It starts out only as a black comedy, and the romance just surfaces from out of nowhere about half an hour into the film. Romance can add to a film, but with some black comedies(including this one) the plot is too far-fetched for you to really care about the characters, and romance in a movie is empty if you have no one to care for. What's left is just some unoriginal black comedy gags that seem worn out; people who should care about the dead guy but don't, the guy talking sense being mistaken as the crazy one, the ceremony that should be silent and holy, but is constantly interrupted... I could go on. We've seen it all before, often done better than here. The plot, while being extremely far-fetched, is fairly original(as far as I know) and it does allow for at least a few funny scenes. Too many of them just seem recycled. The acting is not bad, in fact it's better than what the script is worth. The script is fairly badly written, especially with the randomly thrown-in romance. Many of the characters seem like stereotypical cliches too. All in all, the film could have been far better, had the plot been more believable, the romance better worked in, the script better written, the material more original and the film overall less predictable. It has its moments, but it fails to entertain throughout the runtime, which it should be able to, as it's only 90 minutes. It does have a few pretty good laughs though. It's just barely entertaining enough to sit through, and it's not the worst way to spend an hour and a half, if you've got absolutely nothing better to do. 5/10
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