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Amos Lassen wrote on 03/29/2011:

Even though I had heard about “Death at a Funeral”, I was still caught completely off guard by its humor and, in fact, I am still laughing as I write this review. It seems to be about everything worth living for—drugs, homosexuality, nudity, sibling rivalry, and almost every offbeat you can think of. Taking place on one afternoon, we are endeared by the characters who win us over with their bold wit. The funeral we see highlights the humor and irony of life. The funeral is overshadowed by family problems and they propel the characters into some very funny situations but it is the funeral that is the focal point of the film and even with all of the lunacy, we get a eulogy. This is a British farce with an amazing ensemble cast that does its part to perfection. Highbrow and lowbrow collide and the results will keep you laughing for a very long time.
Anyone who has ever been to a family funeral will recognize the situation and that; I believe is what makes this film work. The laughs begin early—during the cleverly animated credits. We meet the mourners who come to the funeral with their inhabitations totally in check but because of the actions of the grieving guests, lose any sense of sanity. Before the members of the audience realize it, each viewer becomes a mourner at a funeral of someone they have never known. Like the mourners on the screen, the mourners in the audience also lose any sense of sanity that they may have had when they sat down to watch this film.
To put it concisely the film deals with death, family relations and s**t. There is also a hallucinogenic drug with an effect that lasts throughout the movie and a dead father with a secret. The fact that the movie is British allows the actors to do what the British do so well—combine lowbrow humor with death and make us laugh until it hurts and in the most politically incorrect way possible. This is not just black humor—it is morbid humor that it is riotous. Death may be a serious subject but that is not really what this movie is about. It is really about how the living behave when a situation presents itself. I had a great time and I predict that you will too.