Product Description

Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 02/17/2009 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1612 in DVD
• Brand: TCFHE/MGM
• Released on: 2009-02-17
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

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STORY SYNOPSIS
When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and enjoying life without consequences, the team begins to break the strict reaper rules. While her friends fall victim to their desires for money, success, and fame, George breaks another rule by revealing her true identity to her living family. As the reapers struggle with their roles on Earth, they each find that death can be just as complicated as life. Through its strong storyline, Dead Like Me delves into the intricate mythology and dark comedy created by the TV series and appeals to the show’s legions of fans as well as those new to the world of the reapers.

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Customer Reviews

Bitter disappointment
As a die-hard fan of the series, I have to say that this movie is an insult.

Despite being written by two of the original series' regular writers, both the writing and the direction (new director) are truly painful. Daisy Adair is played by a different actress, Sarah Wynter, who doesn't hold a candle to Laura Harris, who played Daisy in the series. Rather than being a superficial, but talented and clever, materially-driven woman, Daisy is now nothing more than an air-headed wanna-be. Her character has been utterly destroyed. Meanwhile, the character Roxie apparently has no problem breezing past lines she never would have even come close to consider crossing previously. The plot stretches credulity past the breaking point, and is entirely unimaginative.

The one point of strong satisfaction from the movie is that Georgia finally reveals herself to her sister Reggie. While very satisfying, it also feels like committing a cardinal sin, and in any case it was an easy, low-hanging fruit for the writers to grab that certainly didn't involve any skill to come up with.

On the whole, the movie was extremely painful for me to watch. If it had been any other movie, I would have simply stopped watching after 20, 30 minutes tops; but I needed closure. But it was so bad, that my wife has said she's considering writing her own ending to the series, just so she could forget this one.

Don't buy this movie, unless you're such a die-hard fan that you actually don't care if it completely sucks (think Star Wars Episode I, only a bit worse). It simply isn't worth it.

Meh...
I have to disagree with a lot of what people seem to be saying in their reviews. As a long time fan of the series, I actually found this to be fairly disappointing. I did not think the consistency of the characters was there throughout, and the storyline often seemed poorly tied together. Sometimes it seemed like they couldn't decide between making a movie for the fans and making a movie for the casual viewer who didn't know all the backstory.

Laura Harris is sorely missed. Couldn't they have waited until the timing worked out with her? Her replacement is trying very hard to measure up, but she doesn't quite cut it. I never felt like she had a full grasp on Daisy's character at all. Situations that Laura could have given meaning to came out stiff and one-dimensional.

Rube was also missed. At least they gave a valid reason for his absence.

As I said somewhere else: it's been too long and the magic is gone. Something was missing.

About the only character I felt was utterly perfect and herself 100% of the time was Dolores. And Murray. God bless you Murray Herbig.

pretty good.
I got a chance to see this the other day. I enjoyed it, but I don't know if it will revive much interest in bringing back the series, unfortunately.

It didn't really stand out as a feature film. It felt like one more last episode in the series, and I would've enjoyed it more if the real Daisy and Rube were still in. The other Daisy seemed out of place to me, and was more irritating than the original, if that is possible.

Other than that, the characters are still the ones we know and love.
And Dolores Herbig was very good in this one, as usual.

(Possible very minor Spoiler)
This movie does answer some of the questions on what would happen if the Reapers did break the rules, which was a nice peek into that, but I won't go much deeper.
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I love the movie, But I was already a huge fan of the show. People without a background in the series may not appreciate this fully. If you are about to watch the movie first, Watch the series first (Netflix is awesome for this)

Overall, It's a nice trip down memory lane for an old fan. Seeing Reggie all grown up is weird, but cool.

PLEASE BRING BACK THE SHOW!!!!!!! It's seriously one of the best of all time.

Thanks for your time,
Nick Smith, Evansville, IN