![]() ![]() If cookie-cutter plots and potty humor is what it takes to get you off, then check out Ghost Town. And you never get tired of watching Gervais talk to a ghost that the people around him can’t see! What a comical misunderstanding. The viewer is subject to scenes were Pincus shows us the multiple faces he can make while gagging, extended dialogue where he discusses his bowel movements, and a scene that apparently I didn’t get because several around me were laughing like crazy, where Pincus just drinks laxatives for a while. ![]() Koepp was scraping at the bottom of the comedy barrel to get his laughs. In the meantime, Pincus falls in love, and if you’ve ever seen a romantic comedy, you know exactly what happened the rest of the hour and a half (except this time, some of the characters are ghosts!). When the dead people find out, they follow him around, wanting him to finish their unfinished business… One particular fast talker, Frank (Greg Kinnear) convinces Pincus to help break up the engagement of his former wife (played by Tea Leoni) to a do-gooder lawyer. From that point on, he’s able to see dead people. During a routine medical procedure, Pincus dies for 7 minutes. But, when a smooth-talking ghost (Greg Kinnear) traps Bertram into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen (Ta Leoni), they are entangled in a. The plot follows protagonist Bertram Pincus (by the way, if you think people mispronouncing his name as ‘Pink-ass’ is funny, this film is for you) played by Ricky Gervais. A spirited romantic comedy, Ghost Town is the story of Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), a cranky Manhattan dentist who develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Co-written, and directed by David Koepp (the guy who directed box-office disappointments like Secret Window, and Stir of Echos), Ghost Town is barely able to keep the attention of it’s audience, most of the time leaving the viewers bored and less-than-impressed with Ricky Gervais’ tired tricks from the British version of The Office. Actually, my first big book purchase, happened at 10 years of age, I'm guessing. The magical, the mystical, the mysterious. I'd been fascinated by the concept of the ghost and the ghostly for decades, since I was a kid. This mediocrity of this film was so frustrating, I wanted to throw up twenty minutes into it. Exploring the illusory: branding ghosts and the veil of what is beyond. ![]()
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