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Created Oct 05, 2008 04:29AM PST • Edited Oct 05, 2008 04:29AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Great 4.0

   As a rabid Ricky Gervais fan, this movie would have to screw up pretty royally to earn my disapproval, but I must say it managed to impress me anyways. Despite being rather formulaic, Ghost Town was hilarious and sweet. As Bertram Pincus (D.D.S…), Gervais portrays the perfect jackass: blunt, misanthropic, awkward and funny. Really god-damned funny…

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

   Quality comic timing from Gervais and Kristen Wiig, as well as a great performance from Tea Leoni. Otherwise, nothing particularly noteworthy…

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Great 4.0

    The ghost effects are pretty minimal, but they all looked great.

11. Direction Great 4.0

12. Play Great 4.0

13. Music Great 4.0

14. Visuals Great 4.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 2.0

    Some swearing. Also, extended conversation about a mummified penis.

17. Sex Titillating 2.0

18. Violence Fierce 2.0

19. Rudeness Salty 2.0

21. Reality

    Fantasy 4.1

    So yeah, ghosts and stuff… Everybody seems to adjust to the fact that they’re dead and walking, or perceiving specters thereof pretty fast…

22. Circumstantial Fantasy 4.1

23. Biological Fantasy 4.1

24. Physical Fantasy 4.1