Just perfect...

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could like this turd of a movie. Dr. Bertram Pincus is as unlikable a character as has ever been written... and he's our "hero". Greg Kinear's underwear smear, AKA Frank, is even worse. How are we suppose to care about a man, living or dead, who is happily cheating on his wife with a much younger woman. When his character died at the beginning of the movie, I clapped. I clapped as happily as I did when Steven Seagal's Lt. Col. Travis died at the beginning of Executive Decision.Unfortunately, I knew Frank would be haunting me for the rest of the movie. Trying hard to make me care for him. I don't. I want him to rot in hell for eternity, and Dr. Pincus can join him. Why should I want Pincus and Gwen to live happily ever after? Pincus is the slime on the heels of humanity, just like Frank was before. Gwen deserves better.

Well, I took around a year to finally watch this film, since the synopsis never really engaged me; more precisely, last week I gave it a chance and saw it in a rainy afternoon. "Ghost Town" is a movie that takes long time to develop something; the first hour of length is simply full of uninteresting conversations that lead almost nowhere. Pincus, the main character, is a grumpy dentist whose life is almost a complete loss, until he, unintentionally, or maybe even against his will, acquires the ability of seeing dead people-- no, we're not talking about Shyamalan's classic. From that point on, Pincus gets in some unpleasant situations, mainly created by Frank, the deceased husband of a beautiful girl named Gwen. After falling in love with her, his life never feels the same; not that he stops being an unsympathetic person, but he finds something interesting to do about his life. There isn't much else that I can say about it, due that "Ghost Town" wasn't any remarkable to me. In my opinion, the story is just too weak to develop much feelings in the spectator, but it's at least fresh and has a beautiful ending. See it yourself (or don't).

Ghost Town (2008): Dir: David Koepp / Cast: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Tea Leoni, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig: Hilarious comedy about a shallow existence. Ricky Gervais plays a dentist whom has an operation where he was pronounced dead for seven minutes. Now he is able to see images of deceased people whom request his help in solving issues that prevent them from peace. Directed by David Koepp who previously made such supernatural thrillers as Stir of Echoes and Secret Window. This marks his first supernatural comedy and it is one of his best. Gervais is excellent as the harassed dentist whom avoids social interaction but ultimately learns compassion. Greg Kinnear plays a ghost whom requests his help in preventing his wife, played by Tea Leoni, from marrying another man, who may or may not be as thought. The great thing about Kinnear's role is it is someone who fails to view his own flaws. Leoni begins as a subject of rejection and rudeness by Gervais but she will ultimately discover herself as well as find peace with herself, Kinnear and the economy. Billy Campbell as her fiancé is a more predictable role but works especially in a scene involving laughing gas. Kristen Wiig plays a surgeon who is self involved and ends up working on Gervais. The results in a very funny film with a strong theme regarding one's unit within society. Score: 9 / 10

We saw this movie with my family and thought we were going to crack up. But no, despite the feel-good touch to it, the movie is slow at times and a little dry. Ricky Gervais plays a dentist who is a 'prick', does not like people in general and goes out of his way to avoid them. He undergoes a colonoscopy and is clinically dead for seven minutes, which gives him a gift - he sees and talks to dead people. Ha! His worst nightmare! The dead ones who need him to help set them free then seek him. Frank (Greg Kinnear), asks him to help intervene in a romance between his widow and her new fiancé. At first reluctant to take on the responsibility, he ends up agreeing. And along the way a number of discoveries will surface. I did not think that Ricky Gervais gave his best. But, go see it for yourself. After all it is a feel- good movie.