Gervais is the saving grace in this hybrid of "Ghost", "Topper" and "All of Me"

george.schmidt

GHOST TOWN (2008) **1/2 Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Tea Leoni, Dana Ivey, Bill Campbell, Alan Ruck, Claire Lautier, Aasif Mandvi. Kristen Wiig. Gervais is the saving grace in this hybrid of "Ghost", "Topper" and "All of Me" as a misanthropic dentist whose routine surgery causes a brief moment of his death and the end result in seeing and hearing ghosts, including recently departed Kinnear, who wants desperately to re-connect with his widow (Leoni). A fairly decent mix of screwball comedy and Gervais' dead-panned, put-upon , awkward social comedy skills make up for the rather formulaic yet winning high-concept fish-out-of-water comedy in the long run; Wiig as his surgeon steals the film. (Dir: David Koepp)

score 7/10

george.schmidt 29 September 2008

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