My 150 Favorite Movies - #96

Death at a Funeral (2007)

 A very funny film made about a very unfunny subject. Seriously, just thinking about this movie makes me laugh. From the opening scene, with a dead body mix-up, right up through the closing credits showing the actors cracking up during filming, I defy anyone to not find this film simply hysterical. In fact so funny did the powers that be find this movie, that it was remade just a couple of years later, with an American cast. The Chicago Tribune called the film, "lethal farce, combining hints of The Lavender Hill Mob, doses of Joe Orton and a smidgen of the Farrelly brothers' scatology in its mix."