I don't have much to say about this movie. Its funny. The characters are entertaining. The concept and execution is good. This is an enjoyable, creative movie. Its a bit long. There are more boring scenes than entertaining scenes. I wouldn't really recommend it but if you want to watch it, then watch it.

Ghost Town (2008): Dir: David Koepp / Cast: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Tea Leoni, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig: Hilarious comedy about a shallow existence. Ricky Gervais plays a dentist whom has an operation where he was pronounced dead for seven minutes. Now he is able to see images of deceased people whom request his help in solving issues that prevent them from peace. Directed by David Koepp who previously made such supernatural thrillers as Stir of Echoes and Secret Window. This marks his first supernatural comedy and it is one of his best. Gervais is excellent as the harassed dentist whom avoids social interaction but ultimately learns compassion. Greg Kinnear plays a ghost whom requests his help in preventing his wife, played by Tea Leoni, from marrying another man, who may or may not be as thought. The great thing about Kinnear's role is it is someone who fails to view his own flaws. Leoni begins as a subject of rejection and rudeness by Gervais but she will ultimately discover herself as well as find peace with herself, Kinnear and the economy. Billy Campbell as her fiancé is a more predictable role but works especially in a scene involving laughing gas. Kristen Wiig plays a surgeon who is self involved and ends up working on Gervais. The results in a very funny film with a strong theme regarding one's unit within society. Score: 9 / 10

In Ghost Town, Ricky Gervais plays Bertram Pincus a rude, arrogant and unsympathetic dentist who has a near death experience in hospital.As he was medically dead for seven minutes he has the ability to see dead people. One of them being Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) who was killed in an accident at the beginning of the film and wants Pincus to stop his widow marrying a human rights lawyer who he thinks is the wrong man for her.Pincus agrees in exchange that Herlihy would leave him alone but discovers the lawyer is a good man and falls for the widow himself but his selfishness backfires on him and his fellow dentist advises him that life would be better if he thought about others and helped people.Gervais has cultivated a persona of the Basil Fawlty kind and here he is making sure that he does not overstretch himself. He plays grouchy very well leaving Tea Leoni, Greg Kinnear and others to be moving and emotional.The film is a cross between Groundhog Day and The Sixth Sense, its not bad, easy going but is nothing more than a time waster.

I can't understand how I missed it. Written and directed by David Koepp, the man who wrote "Apartment Zero" and "Death Becomes Her" with Martin Donovan, a personal hero of mine. Not to mention some of the biggest moneymakers of the last two decades. "Ghost Town" strives for something else, it pinpoints the goodness hidden in the heart of someone who, perhaps, never knew was there. A comedy of personal discovery no less. I was moved and delighted. Ricky Gervais goes through it, stumbling over himself with an innocence that is as real as it is mysterious. I connected with him half way through and it took me by surprise. I was loving a character that at the beginning I thought was funny but despicable. That for me means I've learned something. Thank you.