So I just saw Ghost Town. It was funny. It had a nice blend of American slapstick and British awkward humor. Timing was good. Greg Kinnear plays his average "ass" role and Ricky Gervais plays a disgruntled dentist finding the meaning of life nicely. Kristen Wiig plays her interruptive, crazy person character well similar to her SNL characters. Aasif Mandvi plays Gervais' dentist associate very well, it's a shame he wasn't played in any of the promotional commercials, especially since the commercials are all over Comedy Central.
The movie is very much a funny, silly version of Ghost Whisperer and Sixth Sense. The story gets a little too serious and deep in the third quarter and doesn't quite recover to complete funny level at the end, but it seems like many movies are finding this sort of issue. The movie doesn't quite know if it wants to be a comedy or a story of discovery... Oh well. It's entertaining and fun to hear a silly take of helpless ghosts regardless of identity crisis.
