Frank Oz, best known as the voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy, director of the chair very often in his career, including comedy at bespritzend. At the head of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, he coupled Steve Martin and Michael Caine strange indeed idem Martin and Eddie Murphy in Bowfinger. At the death a funeral sees work without stars, but no real comedy seem to suffer.
The film begins with a very funny gag at the opening of a coffin, time is not the easiest life, diverting comedy. With him, we have put in place, Daniel (Matthew MacFayden), and spreads to bury his father. With the help of his wife Jane (Keeley Hawes), it must be an accommodation for international visitors is preinstalled neuroses.
When guests arrive, ready-Sitcom addition to commit acts. Daniel Cousin Martha (Daisy Donovan), she nervous bride (Alan Tudyk), some Valium, which in turn at a cocktail cooked psychedelic his brother Troy (Kris Marshall). It’s obviously much on the day hope to impress his father Victor (Peter Egan), with their choice of beautiful. Daniel, in the meantime, at the same time that the presence of much more successful, his brother Robert (Rupert Graves), and the promise he had to Jane to start a new life outside of the shadows his family. Earlier this (and three or four other small dramas), a mystery shopping (Peter Dinklage) concluded with a shocking on the mystery of the honour and a hidden agenda of its own.
The script by Dean Craig, juggling with ease these stories. It is, however, the benefits that really lead wires. Tudyk, one of the few Yanks in the room, practically steals the movie Dinklage done for most of role from a cut with some of the facial expressions pages, Kevin Smith. Andy Nyman, as Daniel’s friend put upon hypochondriac Howard, sells its neuroses, without entering into a joint-stock company of players.
Oz draws together in a strange mixture of styles, his American counterpart (although English born), most often with a sensitivity British occupation and British screenwriter. The end result feels immediately as an attempt by the United Kingdom, pull off American Comedy - large versus dry. And if it does not always work, it is interesting to establish a court familiar.
Not all elements of the climb to the summit. Train spotting Ewen Bremmer vet receives sellé uninvolving, with a surface of the part assigned to it thereafter Pins Martha, it never really everywhere. The female characters, for the most part, play just women, their male colleagues crazy without much changing theirs. And despite some very funny moments, the film does not really find the energy in the second half, the wheels turning, until now.