Ghost Town

I was a little wary of Ghost Town. I like Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni, but I wasn't sure how well they would all mesh together. And I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies unless they were made in the 30's or 40's-the ones made recently are awful (see: The Holiday. Actually, don't. The most interesting thing in it was wondering why Brit Jude Law was more tna than LA'er Cameron Diaz). But I loved Ghost Town. Ricky Gervais as the people-hating dentist who sees ghosts after he dies for seven minutes during a colonoscopy (and props to Kristen Wiig as the surgeon-she was very funny), Greg Kinnear as the ghost/cad who wants Gervais to help him and Leoni as his widow-the person Kinnear wants to help. They were funny, effervescent and wonderful. Everyone's timing was great, Gervais was nicely acidic, Leoni was not a woman who spills out her feelings-she's tough, funny and smart. And Greg Kinnear seemed to be channeling Cary Grant, and I mean that in a positive way. And now I'd like to discuss how nice it was to see a movie where the characters looked like human beings. Now that Kinnear has a few lines (and you can see them!) he's not as pretty-but he has much more character. And Leoni is beautiful-always. And it was a pleasure to see a woman my age who has a few small lines on her face, not botox (she can make an expression!) and no lip-plumper. She looked real-and gorgeous. And what about Ricky? He is not beautiful. But when someone can make you laugh that hard, you don't even notice-he was hilarious and touching as well.

Jeez, just go see this movie-it was really good-did I mention I saw it twice? I didn't plan to, but I was just as happy the second time around. And for God's sake, all of you-make more movies! If they all come out like this, the world will be a little bit better place.