Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director's wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around ... (Full plot summary below)
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Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director's wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around the world. But wait...is Don getting better?
Leave your thoughts about Big Shot's Funeral.
| eFilmCritic.comDavid CorneliusFuneral is a wild shot at the sheer gaudiness of both advertising and entertainment, and more often than not, it's right on target. |
| Film ThreatRich ClineMuch of this is way over the top, irritating and entertaining in equal measure. |
| ÜberCinéGregory WeinkaufA twisted farce, a touching character study, a bridge around the world; I love it. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceThere's been a glut of movies lately that feature a film within a film, a conceit that is already tiresome enough. But this Chinese-American co-production is so poorly executed, with such a lack of subtlety, it's one of the worst. |
| BBC.comJamie RussellFast disintegrates into a series of semi-coherent scenes. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsBefore losing its way in the second half, Feng Xiaogang's culture-clash comedy is a ribald parody of commercialism and the invisible line that separates personal integrity from 'selling out' opportunism. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansA frenetic satire of Hollywood pretension and Chinese capitalism -- an idea as incongruous as a Woody Allen romp about the wacky world of collective farming. |
| Boxoffice MagazineShlomo SchwartzbergDisplays so little sense of style or character that it feels patched together, as if it's being made up as it goes along. |
| User ReviewWebster LOne of my favorites from director Feng Xiaogang. I got to hang out with him and others in the crew when they filmed it in Beijing in the summer of 2001. Fun times! |
| User ReviewEve LI simply do not think this movie is targeted to anyone who doesn't understand Chinese Northerners humour. Can't blame the critics for giving lower ratings. I have seen this film with my families for many times and we were always laughing so hard each time. However, I do see the point of it being slow on the development. The director's future film is worth checking out: they are fast-paced and I really enjoyed the acting. |
