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Ricky Gervais is obviously a great comedian, and Téa Leoni is a delightful actress. What is surprising is how well the chemistry between the two works on the screen. (The again, Leoni did pull another performance of this type with Ben Kingsley in last year's You Kill Me). There are a few logical gaps in the story, but it's about ghosts, so what do you want? Besides, both main actors, as well as the excellent supporting role by Greg Kinnear easily make you overlook such minutiae. It was nice also to see Aasif Mandvi (from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show) in a more-serious- than-usual role. I hope to see him again on the big screen soon.
Comedian turned social commentator Bill Maher does it well in this investigative documentary. Unlike most of the recent "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, Maher asks simple but penetrating questions about religion, without pretending to know all the answers. Maher is most effective when he confronts religious believers and their "leaders" alike with the most elementary contradictions in what they are saying, and receives a staring blank in return. You can't help but think that at least some of his interviewees must have felt like "oh, you darn infidel, you got me here!" Particularly precious are the bits where Maher interviews a Jesus impersonator at a Christian- inspired amusement park in Florida, and even more when he goes to a London park to shout the tenets of Scientology. As he told recently Jon Stewart (of The Daily Show), it sounds crazy, but it's simply what Tom Cruise believes!
This is by far not the most interesting production by the Cohens, but it is worth watching on a variety of levels. First, there is the pleasure of seeing a bunch of good actors working together with great chemistry, some of them (like Pitt and Clooney) certainly not in their "traditional" roles. Second, the story is actually wacky enough to hold up in terms of internal logic, as strange as it may seem. As usual with the brothers, do expect some unexpected turns, of the violent variety. And yet, somehow, the movie retains the character of a light comedy. Pay particular attention to the very last words spoken in the film, they may be the best summary of the whole thing I've heard so far.