BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

wfhbear No one will ever convince me that Rip Torn isn't one of the funniest folks around. Facial expressions, eye brows, and loud voice make him the big grin for you on any production he is in. This one included.With Grandma on everyone's mind and siblings who are carrying years of hurt feelings and grudges this gets some dark clouds at times. The reason for this is the fact that what we Americans hide from others is just normal American family dynamics. A bit embarrassing and a bit too well understood. I actually squirmed in my seat a bit.Hank Azaria, Ray Romano, Zooey Deschanel, Debra Winger, the Garcia "Boys", Glenne Headly, Piper Laurie, and the entire Cast are absolutely in perfectly played roles. I will not give away the double blast ending. Suffice it to say that the audience will take a serious left jab from Grandpa on tape and then a decisive right uppercut by the "Garcia Boys" that brings down the house. Finally, Odo (you should know who he is) made me laugh as an old member of the clergy. I have been to weddings and funerals where he would be a doppelganger replacement for what actually showed up.I liked the movie. A lot of people, cast and crew gave a lot of great contributions to make this film. It is wonderful Saturday evening fare with a couple beers and a lot of Cheetos. Maybe a salami and fresh Mozzarella on some crunchy bread if your still hungry. Get comfy on the couch. One arm around your "Other" and a smile on your face. You will enjoy the evening.WFH.

SnoopyStyle Kate Collins (Zooey Deschanel) receives news of her grandfather's death from her grandmother Charlotte Collins (Piper Laurie). The various members of the family gather for the funeral in Rhode Island. Her father Daniel Collins (Hank Azaria) was a child star reduced to porn acting. Her uncle Skip (Ray Romano) and Lily (Paget Brewster) have rambunctious twin boys. Her aunt Lucy (Kelly Preston) is a lesbian with girlfriend Judy Arnolds (Famke Janssen). Her angry aunt Alice (Debra Winger) dominates her submissive husband with their three silent kids. Charlotte asks Kate to deliver an eulogy at the funeral. Kate tries to avoid childhood love Ryan Carmichael (Jesse Bradford). After Charlotte's suicide attempt, they meet Alice's old friend nurse Samantha (Glenne Headly).This is written and directed by newcomer Michael Clancy. I love many of the great actors in the cast. Zooey Deschanel is super adorable. The homophobic Alice is probably the most hateful. It's a lot of quirky darkness but it's not always that funny. It rambles a bit but I still love the actors.

MBunge Writer/Director Michael Clancy must be an only child. That's the only way I can explain him making a comedy about family that has even less connection to familial reality than your average lame sitcom from the 1980s. Eulogy makes Different Strokes, My Two Dads and Mr. Belvedere look like hard hitting, gritty portrayals of human domestic conflict.The basic story is that the patriarch of the Collins family (Rip Torn) has passed away and his children and their families are returning home for his funeral. As they all get together, the family's various neuroses and unresolved issues are supposed to spill out all over the screen in a humorous but touching fashion. What actually happens is that a bunch of characters so flat they have less than two dimensions alternately shout, mope, laugh and act like fools. These 1-and-a-half dimensional people don't remind you of the members of your own family. They remind you of the folks you saw in the insane asylum during that phenomenally ill-considered field trip back in 7th grade.There's Daniel Collins (Hank Azaria), a former child star who's more connected to his cell phone than to his own daughter. Danny's daughter Kate (Zooey Deschanel) is supposed to be the normal one in the family, so her viciously passive-aggressive abuse of her childhood boyfriend Ryan (Jesse Bradford) is brushed off as some sort of charming quirk. Danny's sister Judy (Kelly Preston) can be described in exactly two words, "resentful lesbian". His other sister Alice (Debra Winger) is such an intense bitch you're amazed she's still alive, because anyone who spends more than 5 minutes around her would want to gut her with a rusty pair of scissors. Danny's brother Skip (Ray Romano) is the sleazy black sheep of the Collins clan, which fits because Ray Romano looks like he shares more DNA with a lobster than he does with the rest of the cast. Danny's mother (Piper Laurie) is such a void that the script has to give her a couple of "amusing" suicide attempts, otherwise you'd never even notice she's on screen.There's also Skip's degenerate twin boys (Curtis and Keith Garcia), Alice's emotionally annihilated husband (Mark Harelik), Lucy's sweaty-faced lesbian lover (Famke Janssen) and Samantha (Glenne Headly), a nurse who's such a servant of the Almighty Plot Hammer she might as well go through every scene pounding in nails with her forehead.None of these characters seems like a real person for even a moment. None of the allegedly wacky things they do are even vaguely humorous. There's only one actual laugh in the entire movie and that comes from a minor character played by Rene Auberjonois, proving he remembers from his time on the TV show Benson how to sell even the most faltering joke. Zooey Deschanel is darling and the rest of the cast give it their all. Kelly Preston even wrings out some tears, but none of it can make any of this dreck work.I cannot emphasize enough that Eulogy is NOT funny. Watching it is like being trapped in a room with a fat, smelly guy who's trying to tell you a bad joke and keeps screwing up the punch line. And then when the story tries to act like it has some legitimate point to make about family life, it's like the fat, smelly guy tries to feel you up. The only thing you can think or feel while it's going on is how much you want it to stop.If writer/director Clancy set out to make a deliberately boring, unpleasant and aggravating movie as some sort of ironic commentary on how boring, unpleasant and aggravating family can be…I guess he succeeded. It's a Pyrrhic victory at best, though. If he was genuinely trying to make an entertaining film, he failed as thoroughly as a man with a script and a camera can fail.

Claudio Carvalho When the patriarch of a dysfunctional family dies, his sons and daughters travel with their families for the funeral. While they stay in the house of the matriarch waiting for the funeral and the testament, secrets are exposed and wounds are opened in the relationships of the members. "Eulogy" is a boring and not funny dark comedy. The great cast is wasted in an unpleasant screenplay and the direction with heavy hand of Michael Clancy. The Brazilian title misleads the viewer. My vote is five.Title (Brazil) : "Um Funeral Muito Louco" ("A Very Crazy Funeral")