As the movie tagline would suggest, “This is one sad family.” Actually no, “Death at a Funeral” is one sad movie, or in this case, remake.

Apparently this is a remake of the 2007 British film, “Death at a Funeral.” That’s right, two movies, three years apart, titled the same with the same plot.

So is this the American version of director Frank Oz’s original? If so, I pity Hollywood.

Don’t get me wrong; this movie was humorous at times.

Unfortunately, most of the humor was repeated and the same jokes were dragged throughout the entire movie.

For example, the drugged-out character “Oscar,” played by James Marsden, was hilarious as he hallucinated due to accidentally taking acid.

Watching him tweak out was funny for about the first 30 minutes. After that, it got old.

But in all honesty, how else are you going to entertain an audience when the plot revolves around one funeral?

In an attempt to please the crowd for 90 minutes, director Neil LaBute decided to exaggerate family drama and make sure anything that could go wrong at a funeral did go wrong.

Now I understand that every family has issues, but this family has a ridiculous amount of drama. Every character or member of the family seemed to have some type of problem in his or her life.

From baby issues to money issues, this family has dealt with it all. Heck, they even had issues with a midget.

Going back to the Marsden’s character, could one really act in that extremely crazy manner from one pill? From seeing things that weren’t there to ending up naked on the roof, this character was out of his mind. But then again, I guess I really don’t know what acid can do to a person.

What I am saying is that I highly doubt all of this could happen at one man’s funeral.

It seemed the only person who did not have drama would be the man in the casket, the father of the family. But in the end, it turns out even he had issues of his own that were uncovered.

Speaking of the cast, they were all African American. The only people who were of a different race were connected because they both dated the same woman.

I understand this movie revolved around an African American family, but it would have been nice to see a more diverse cast.

Since this movie contains crude humor and a great amount of unnecessary cussing, I would recommend this movie for adults.

Even though there were children and young teens in the audience of the premiere of this movie, surprisingly, people under the age of 17 should definitely not see this movie. It’s rated “R” for a reason.

Also, for those with a weak stomach, I would recommend not seeing this as well. There is a scene that was so intense that the audience roared with laughter and the sounds of disgust.

Describing in detail would ruin maybe one of the only reasons why this movie might be worthwhile – the scene was hilarious but disgusting at the same time.

This movie was at times humorous, but is definitely one I could have gone without seeing. I think if I didn’t have the audience’s reactions to humor me, I would’ve left before the end.

Maybe the original British version is better than what our Hollywood created; let’s hope so.

Erin Rogers can be reached at [email protected]