It's a Wonderful Afterlife: Critic Reviews

It's a Wonderful Afterlife may be a busy trifle, but it has its good-natured charms and agreeable gross-outs.

All the potential for drama and comedy is sacrificed to this totteringly high concept.

You don't see that many supernatural serial-killer romantic comedies.

Broad enough to drive a truckload of samosas through, yet achieving the miracle of genuine silliness only through Sally Hawkins' turn as a daffy psychic, this gluttonous ghost story should appeal to Chadha's loyal customers.

Chadha and her team, with their TV-sitcom color palette and quick comic pacing, clearly aren't shooting for plausibility, and audiences in search of a few easy laughs won't be disappointed.

Its comic premise seems too silly, and at times, too tedious, to hope for much cross-cultural appeal, despite a fine, committed cast.

I found myself laughing more at badly composed scenes, lame make-up, and poor performances than at the humour.

A refreshingly spry romantic comedy that never loses sight of the fact that levity and love, even against the darkest and most unlikely of backdrops, always prevail.

Every gag is smothered by the prevailing tone of labored zaniness and generic, plucky "mischief music" alerting discerning viewers to abandon all hope of laughter.

The feature doesn?t strive hard enough to remain delightfully insane. Instead, Chadha would rather play with broken hearts than entrails. A shame.

This stodgy supernatural farce is riven with insoluble problems.

This film is so scattershot that it's more exhausting than endearing.

With jokes that routinely miss the mark and cringeworthy slapstick, this black comedy farce shouldn't work. Somehow, though, it does.

A train wreck romcom.

Disappointing comedy that fails to find the right tone and is let down by a messy script and a lack of decent laughs, though it does have at least one great moment.

These spirits are just gory enough to be out of place in a film that is otherwise designed for fans of bland, creakingly old-fashioned humour.