Ghost Town Cinema Review

Ricky Gervais is Bertram Pincus, a dentist who is not much of a people-person, in this romantic comedy Ghost Town.

Pincus dies briefly in hospital during a standard procedure but, is brought back to life after just a few minutes. This experience leaves him with the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, much to his dismay, and they all want some sort of favour from him.

Recently deceased Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) is particularly hard to shake off as he pesters Pincus around the clock, until he agrees to help split up Frank’s widow from her new man.

Bertram Pincus finds his life changing as he falls in love and realises that he needs to change his attitude towards others if he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life alone.

I’m not much of a Ricky Gervais fan but, he is great in this film. He is very funny as the anti-social dentist and Ghost Town is hardly the conventional rom-com, which makes it all the more entertaining. It definitely stands out against many of the run-of-the-mill rom-coms that hit the big screen.

The plot is fun and engaging and there is plenty of humour to keep the audience amused throughout. I would definitely recommend this film to all comedy fans.