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What Kind of Black Family Lets A White Guy Disrupt the Funeral?

posted 11 years ago by Gods_finest
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I'm watching this movie for the first time on FX. And this is one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. One of the stupidest parts of the movie involved James Marsden and the chick playing his fiancee, who were definitely the two most irritating people in the whole movie. The movie might have been better without their stupidity.

Also, I hate to sound stereotypical, but what kind of black family allows a white man to come up into a funeral, act like an a**hole, knock over the coffin, and not get his aSS whipped for it? That part irritated me the most. Had this been an actual black family, James Marsden wouldn't have left there alive. I don't know of any black family that would just allow that.

[–] lynn-ash 11 years ago

Uh, this is a clone of a British comedy with much the same plot and story line and much the same dialog. Chris Rock had a great deal to do with the casting, did he not? Some of the names were different.
I think the Marsden's character was really one of the people around whom the story revolved; the other was the Peter Dinklage role. Their actions influenced those of the other characters.

I don't think either character was tolerable in the situation of the death of a beloved man.

It was a comedy, and fiction, after all. As in all fictional stories, isn't there some suspension of disbelief?
Is it true that the events are too bizarre and unrealistic that they could never happen?
Then maybe another ethnic group should have been involved. There is a song called "Finnegan's Wake", and the story in that song contains the happenings of an Irish wake.
The fact that this was first a British comedy says to me that the behavior could happen to anyone, anywhere. In that version, everyone was a "stiff upper lip" type except for "Simon", the Marsden counterpart in the film. As events degenerated, all masks came off just about everyone.