Ghost Town (2008)

You won't be disappointed!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Meh. I wish I could just write the word "meh" a hundred times and call it a review. The sad thing is that if I did go that route, I would be more than justified in doing so.

This is a belated review of a film 8 years old (as I write this) and daylight is a-burning so we don't have time to be coy or beat around the bush.The bottom line is, Tea Leoni did not make enough movies.And by that I mean if this were a plain run of the mill comedy with Gervais (WHO ALWAYS PLAYS HIMSELF) and any other lead actress, then it would be OK.But Leoni makes it part of a film archive. Makes it a treat to savour. She basically did not make enough movies.Leoni had that rare quality of (for lack of a better word) attractiveness that just leaped off the screen.Even as a young actress starting in TV, rumors were always flying that the producers were more interested in the actress herself than in the series they were producing.The parts she did get were always a variation of the classic role she played with Cage in 2000's the Family Man. (Recommended!) In that film she played a love interest powerful enough to make a successful bachelor give it all up and start over. And she sold it.In this film, 8 years after Family Man, she played a love interest powerful enough to make an awkward but funny man (think Woody Alan with a Brit accent) decide to go for the brass ring.And again she sold it.Look at the career of (for ex) Freddie Prinze. He played the same part at least a dozen times.But with Leoni we had to wait years between castings...? And now all we have are films like these. Treasure them.

A ghost story and a love story, ánd a better thyself story. There are plenty of both of those, and I'm usually not up for them, but with this combination, and with this cast (particularly Gervais, but also Leoni and Kinnear) and David Koepp as director and writer I couldn't resist. Even this third viewing was well worth my time. Of course, you could really dig into the story's details and try to take apart every little thing about it (for instance, why doesn't he sue the hospital? He would have a fair chance if they'd made him sign a waver when he was still pretty much under narcosis), but it is simply beyond the point of the film.I simply like this one, and here is why: the chemistry between the actors is excellent, the story has plenty of twists and turns and it is more than adequately filmed. Sure, things get quite sentimental at times, easy romantic comedy lurks in many corners, and near the end things go a little too smoothly, but still, this one definitely has its charms. In fact, it reminded me somewhat of those grand old comedies from Billy Wilder, harboring a certain amount of innocence and playfulness which is rather hard to find these days. And finally, Gervais and the script bring plenty of sharpness and darkness to it.A good 7 out of 10.

Ghost Town is a good movie with an alright storyline and a great comedic cast.The movie is nowhere near to a perfect comedy,there are plenty of hit and miss,but Ricky Gervais's humour and personality makes it very enjoyable and I also really liked Greg Kinnear's character.Its nowhere near to anything like The Office or Extras,but the parts in this movie that do work out do it very well and the move is a short movie that you can get a good chuckle out of.Its not Gervias's finest work,but Ghost Town is a sweet and funny movie.Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais),a grumpy dentist,suffers a near death experience and consequently discovers he can speak to the dead.