Dec 10 2009'Death at a Funeral' (2009) Trailer: 'Death at a Funeral', Now with Tracy Morgan
Did you see Frank Oz's 2007 British dark comedy Death at a Funeral and think, "Pretty funny, but why isn't the cast completely replaced with an American, largely-black cast--save for Peter Dinklage, who, in the absence of a better small performer, should still play Peter Dinklage's character? Then this one's for you, crazy person:
Maybe we could make this into something like the Up Series, where every two years we have another death at a funeral with a new ethnicity (but still with Peter Dinklage), just to see how it changes. Maybe Canadian Latinos next time?
(Thanks, Hal and Jaime.)
Reader Comments
1. Punch Yourself - December 10, 2009 1:09 PM
I feel ill at ease. This actually looks good and it's directed by Neil LaBute. I think someone put Drano in my coffee.
2. Xenu-phobe - December 10, 2009 1:13 PM
So, the message I'm getting here is... instead of encouraging Americans to embrace British humor (and that of other foreign nations), we're just going to remake all their films and television shows now, because we all know Americans just want to see black men go "DAYUM" at black women's booties. But midgets are ok to cross the cultural gap.
3. Kurt C. - December 10, 2009 1:17 PM
Hey, why not just show the entire movie in the trailer? Giving away the fact that Dinklage is the dad's gay lover is a major spoiler. One of the biggest plot points in the whole movie. Showing the body flip out of the casket after the guy tripping out and thinking the casket is moving. All major plot points.
In fact, I can't think of a major event in the film that they didn't show in the trailer.
4. Dan - December 10, 2009 1:21 PM
How many times in my life must I be faced with the sight of Danny Glover on a toilet?
5. Punch Yourself - December 10, 2009 1:57 PM
@2
Last I checked, Frank Oz (who directed the original) was American, so it's not that. It's just Hollywood likes to bet on things where they can make money...again...and more of it. So if they can get an African American audience to pay money for the same people stuck-up white people who only watch movies with British accents and in theaters with 5 screens or less, you bet your sweet ass they will remake it. Plus, have you seen the trailer for the Japanese remake of "Sideways?" Americans aren't alone. Having said all of that, I'm just as sick and tired of it as you are. It seems like there is not a lot of real estate any more for movies to come to you in the theater. Why waste it on a remake of a movie that has already been there?
@3
They spoiled that in the trailer of the original movie from 2007.
@4
I'm right there with you. It feels like he writes it into all of his contracts.
6. Racer X - December 10, 2009 2:51 PM
I lol'd.
/I'll put this on my Netflix
7. Sash - December 10, 2009 3:22 PM
This is retarded. Their is no reason to have a remake of a movie 2 years after the original. That is just idiotic. This is something the the producers looked at and said. "Hmmm, I bet I can make money off of this idea. I don't need to think of something original." I am a huge fan of the original and as I watched this trailer it was like watching a bad parody of the original.
And whether the original was directed by an American director or a British one does not matter. It is still stuffed full of "British humor." But according to this movie American audience need to have the not subtle black comedy of people who seem like they are trying too hard to be funny stuffed in your face instead of the type of humor that you need a small amount of intelligence to understand.
8. goooooood - December 10, 2009 3:41 PM
We jet to see James Marsden naked. I got my ticket!!!!!!!!
9. Keithypoo - December 10, 2009 4:03 PM
FTW?!?! A few questions:
1. How bad is this going to be compared to the original, because the original is amazing.
2. Why the hell is it ok for a mainly black cast to bring up the fact that the the one brother is pissed because the gay lover (Peter Dinklage) is white? If the roles were reversed and somebody made a statement that they were pissed that the gay lover was a black midget, the race card would be thrown and Al Sharpton would have this movie black-listed (no pun intended). I know it is just a movie, but, besides the fact that they are ruining a perfectly good film by dumbing it down and making it more "accessible," I can not stand when this happens in mainly black-casted comedies and dramas. Does anybody else notice this trend? I don't care if any other ethnicity makes fun of white people, I really don't. I just want to know why it's not considered racist in society for a black guy to call a white guy "white-boy," but it IS racist for a white guy to call a black guy "black-boy."
Yaaarrrr! (cause I'm a pirate after some BOOTY!)
10. Punch Yourself - December 10, 2009 5:51 PM
My guess is this film will come in at slightly above the let's make fun of a genre movies and somewhere below let's remake a television show movies. So...yeah, still probably a bad idea.
I also found it less interesting when this trailer is almost the exact duplicate of the trailer for the original movie. Wait...oh God...even the trailer is a remake.
11. marychase - December 10, 2009 6:46 PM
Can anybody write an original story nowadays? Why copy a movie that's like 2 years old?? I'm so tired of remakes...
12. Jenny - December 10, 2009 10:20 PM
I can't believe they put the toilet scene in the trailer! That was one of the funniest and most horrifying scenes I've seen, and certainly what I remember most from the original. I don't know if it was in the original trailer but not expecting it made it that much crazier, and awesome.
Besides this seemingly bringing nothing new to the table, it should still be pretty funny. They've got a lot of good people in it.
Hopefully they don't remake "Eulogy" next :-p
13. Philthy82 - December 10, 2009 10:32 PM
The original was horrible, almost a spoof movie for twee English polite comedies, except it actually took itself relatively seriously. At least this one has Tracy Morgan.
14. rumpelstilskin - December 10, 2009 10:41 PM
sheesh, lighten up and get a sense of humor. That trailer was hilarious. maybe it would seem less funny if I had seen the orginal like some of you claim, but for probably the majority of folks like myself who havnt, this seems pretty funny.
15. menotrouble - December 11, 2009 3:48 AM
that's a guilty pleasure to me. so silly, so politically incorrect, aiming straight at laughs and nothing but.
16. jackson - December 11, 2009 3:56 AM
If you liked this trailer, check http://trailers-watch.com/ to see the newest trailers for current and upcoming movies...
17. Megan - December 11, 2009 8:32 AM
SPOILER ALERT!!
The Frank Oz version is funnier!
18. UGG Schuhe - December 12, 2009 6:50 AM
excellent.
http://www.6inchboot.com/
19. Abigail - December 12, 2009 9:38 AM
Just saw the trailer @ http://trailers-watch.com/ and it's hilarious. Can't wait for this comedy to open...
20. frank - December 12, 2009 5:19 PM
Keithypoo. Poor, poor, Keithypoo. What it must be like to live in your world. The joke in the movie is that it IS ridiculous for Martin Lawrence's character to be making a big deal about an interracial couple. There have been loads of movies that poke fun at white folks disapproving of interracial couples, now that they do the same thing with black folks, you suddenly have a problem? Furthermore, the reason it's less of a problem for blacks to use white directed racial slurs than vice versa is that WHITE PEOPLE KIDNAPPED AND OWNED BLACK PEOPLE AS PROPERTY FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, and until the last 50 years treated them as second-class citizens. So, ya know, cut those "black-boys" a break, maybe, and don't whine about the fact that you don't get to fling racial slurs without consequence.
Anyway, back to the trailer. When Danny Glover was on the toilet, all I could think about was "I'm gettin' too old for this shit." Heh heh.
21. laustcawz - April 5, 2010 4:42 PM
frank--
I suggest you do an online search for
"Colored Freemen As Slave Owners"
"What About Irish Slavery"
"10 Reasons Reparations Are A Bad Idea"
& "Melanin Theory"
& check the results you get.
You may be shocked.
Maybe someone should do
a white version of "DreamGirls"
or "Precious".
Also, the guys in a punk rock group
called Minor Threat would've been going to school
about the same time as Chris Rock
& the Minor Threat guys went to a mostly black school
& got persecuted by the black kids.
One of the songs they ended up writing/performing/recording
was "Guilty Of Being White".
We don't have a TV show called
"Everybody Hates Minor Threat", though.
Finally, did you hear that Morgan Freeman
has called "Black History Month" ridiculous??
I still remember him from "The Electric Company",
one of my favorite shows growing up.