As a Brit, we know Gervais well and while I cheer him on from the sidelines, enjoy his cold calculated comedy at the Golden Globes and feel his pain watching the US version of The Office take off without him...he is not my preferred evening viewing. But this crept up on me. It is a strangely compelling storyline, and while it is true Gervais is (to repeat a marvellous and rather unfair quote about Rupert Everett) typecast as a w****r, he was perfect as the unlikely link between our world and the next world.
The film has wonderful characters dropping in, and zips along, and nearly mimics the feel (and music of) of As It Gets, a Greg Kinnear classic.
The film has wonderful characters dropping in, and zips along, and nearly mimics the feel (and music of) of As It Gets, a Greg Kinnear classic.