With lesser talent in front of the camera or a heavier hand behind it, the film might have crashed with a thud. Here and elsewhere, the timing is delicious. There is so much to like in this kooky, kind-hearted and often hilarious film: Leoni's spunk Gervais' shock a mummy-inspection bit featuring organs in canopic jars an absurd monologue on ''self-righteous teeth." A scene between Bertram and a surgeon who performs his colonoscopy ( Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig) is a tour de force of dissembling cross-talk and half-mumbled interruptions - to say more would ruin the fun. Why Carlos Correa's decision is likely to drag on until Februaryīut if the plot of Ghost Town sounds like a retread, its whimsy and sweetness work like a charm.Houston art model identified as cyclist killed Monday.Police: Florida woman offers sex act in exchange for Chicken McNuggets.Texas woman arrested after pulling a gun over H-E-B parking spot.What teams are still in the running to sign Carlos Correa?.Here are the candidates vying for Texas governor in 2022.Travis Scott, Live Nation lawyer up after being hit with massive Astroworld lawsuits.
This being a supernatural comedy, pushy ghosts will drop in on Bertram at inopportune times in anachronistic (or merely absent) clothing, asking for help in pursuit of worldly closure. This being a romantic comedy, sparks will fly between Bertram and Gwen. Gervais obviously hails from another planet, or short of that, the original BBC version of The Office.īut there's also a gentleness to the man - like E.T., he comes in peace - that warms up in the middle of Ghost Town, when he dials down the testy iconoclasm and joins the human race. Or perhaps it's his face, that exquisite, pasty canvas of vanity and fear - a face that can accommodate blanched terror and ridiculous self-absorption simultaneously, with room to spare for loneliness, pigheadedness and the less quantifiable strangeness of an alien interloper who hasn't yet decoded earthling communications. Before our eyes, sentences disintegrate into a sandy clutter of fragments, hemming and hand jives.
Perhaps it's that stammering inability of his to complete most any thought in normal linear fashion. Three: He's played by Ricky Gervais, which means both his misanthropy and his dentistry are somehow maddeningly funny. Two: He sees dead people, lots and lots of dead people, and he appears to be the only living soul on the isle of Manhattan who can. One: He is a misanthropic dentist, arguably the most misanthropic dentist to grace the screen since Little Shop of Horrors. Three things you must know about Bertrum Pincus.