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Death at a Funeral -- Film Review

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What can a critic say about "Death at a Funeral" (2010) that he hasn't already said about "Death at a Funeral" (2007)? With the window between original films and Hollywood remakes getting shorter and shorter, a critic is sorely tempted to recycle old reviews -- especially when filmmakers don't bother to change, much less improve, anything from the original. The only real change is that a British farce, taking place at a chaotic funeral in an upper-middle-class house, now has a largely black cast and been transported to a Los Angeles suburb. Otherwise, this is virtually a shot-by-shot copy of the original.