Ghost Town

His Task: Help Strangers Die Happily Ever After

A misanthropic dentist, a roguish ghost and a zany Egyptologist: as these unlikely companions scamper around Manhattan in the buoyant comedy “Ghost Town,” they resurrect the spirits of classic movie curmudgeons like W. C. Fields and such romantic comedians as Cary Grant and Carole Lombard in Woody Allen territory.
It would be easy to make too much of this froth, directed by David Koepp (screenwriter of Spielberg blockbusters) from a script he wrote with John Kamps. A latter-day hybrid of “Topper” and “Blithe Spirit” and a visual ode to autumn in New York, “Ghost Town” is a screwball comedy with no big surprises or hidden metaphors. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4365 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 19 Settembre 2008