2008 romantic comedy
Rating: 11/20 (Jen: 9/20)
Plot: A New York City misanthropic dentist with zero people skills dies for seven minutes during a colonoscopy and revives with the ability to see dead people. These dead people follow him around and ask for favors, and he falls for the widow of one of the more obnoxious ghosts.
I liked Ricky Gervais enough to sit through this one, probably because I could identify with his character. He went around saying all the things that I generally keep in my head. Lots of “You go, girl” moments. The story is cutesy and probably a bit too reminiscent of another story with “ghost” in the title or even some stories without “ghost” in the title. It also suffers from a romance that never seems credible, and a central character whose changes just don’t seem plausible. The script follows a too-familiar formula, so even though there are some very funny moments, it never seems fresh. And why does Greg Kinnear make me want to both kick him and offer him a piece of gum?