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Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

RevRonster I'm usually a fan of dramedies that involve family troubles and the hardships that come with loving your parents and siblings but also being annoyed to no living end with them but "Eulogy" was just so bland and flavorless.The script for the film is just weak and sparsely sprinkled with unfunny jokes. They are so unfunny that I found myself getting into an internal debate and question whether what I saw was intended to be funny or was just something spat out on to the script page. Then you have one-dimensional characters that were written without anything neither interesting about them nor deep enough to be relatable and likable. Finally, you have a cast who really, really looks like they just don't give a flying flip about what they are making. It really made for a film that was just one long experiment in boredom and was incredibly tedious. It's a shame because there's decent actors in it and it might have been better if more care was taken with the entire product.

Chrysanthepop I was up very late last night and I thought I would watch half this movie before sleeping and the other half today. But, I was laughing so much during the whole 90 minutes that I wasn't even much aware of how much time went by. It's been ages since my jaw ached from watching a movie. 'Eulogy' is one of the funniest films. There have been numerous movies about dysfunctional families but what makes this one different is the unique characters, the novel jokes, the excellent ensemble cast, a fresh script and it's genuine fun.Michael Clancy's direction and screenplay are quite amusing. It would have been very easy to mess up a film like this one by adhering to clichés but Clancy's novel treatment makes it a refreshing experience. Where else will you hear lines like 'You don't throw a lemon at me in front of a lesbian' or 'She has made a business out of persecuting me and I'm supposed to sit here, at my father's funeral, and watch her *beep*-sing at Samantha?'? Alright, they sound a lot better withing the context of the movie.All the actors do a remarkable job and terrifically fit together as a messed up family that includes a dead father (the skilled Rip Torn), a suicidal mother (a sublime Piper Laurie), a chronically angry daughter (welcome back Debra Winger) and her husband , a hormonal son (the hilarious Ray Romano), a sassy daughter and her no-nonsense fiancée (played brilliantly by Kelly Preston and Famke Janssen), a pot-smoking son (a superb Hank Azaria), his questioning daughter (a luminous Zooey Deschanel who marvelously carries the film), her twin perverted cousins and their three selectively mute younger cousins. To support the family there's a sensual nurse (a fiery Glenne Headly) and a guy from the neighborhood (a charismatic Jesse Bradford). Quite a magnificent ensemble! The entire comedy elements are very well displayed. At times it is wacky and at times subtle but it all goes well together and remains enjoyable and wildly charming from start to end. With movies like this, who needs laughing gas?

graham clarke The dysfunctional family has proved bountiful fodder for many a movie. The problem with "Eulogy" is that once it begins to veer towards parody, it begins to loose touch with its audience has becomes progressively less and less funny.It's a great pity since "Eulogy" boasts an interesting cast who all deliver top notch performances. Deborah Winger is a delight, as too are Hank Azaria and Zooey Deschanel. Even Ray Romano effortlessly shrugs off his Raymond persona in a nicely delineated performance. Clearly as a director Michael Clancy is doing something very right, but as a screenwriter he pretty much sinks this one.Pity….

charles-luce My sister recommended this flick. "Just like us," she promised. Well, not really, but the Collins' gathering for their father/grandfather's funeral does put the "fun" in dysFUNctional family.I love dysfunctional family flicks. There is always someone to recognize and you always come away feeling that at least your own family isn't that bad.With Eulogy you come away with that, and so much more. There are "stop the DVD" moments throughout that demand an immediate replay. I don't think I'll ever be able to hear "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" again quite the same way. And the twins? The twins steal almost every seen they are in.I have no idea why the paid critics trashed this movie -- maybe the director didn't slip them enough perks. But ignore them. This is yet another great small movie, with a wonderful ensemble cast, that you'll love, the critics opinions notwithstanding. I swear, you just can't trust the mercenary reviewers anymore.While the butt-headed critics tried to bury Eulogy, it is clear from these postings on IMDb that the only critics whose opinions matter, the movie-goers, are delivering a much kinder and truer eulogy for this fine flick.