Dead Like Me: Life After Death
by Stephen Herek
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Actor: Callum Blue, Cynthia Stevenson, Ellen Muth, Henry Ian Cusick, Sarah WynterDirector: Stephen Herek
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Dead Like Me: Life After Death
DVD Review: 239 Reviews Tells You That The TV SERIES, Was GREAT!!
Summary: 2 Stars
As there have already been 239 reviews written before mine, the chances that anyone will even get to my review is quite slim.
However, I enjoyed the show so much and my daughter did, that I also felt that I needed to do a review of this movie.
That Mandy, who played Rube, and the actress who played Daisy in the series were not in this movie, was such a big let down, and I completely agree with the others, who have said that the actor and actress they put in, "as replacements" were simply not at all good actors, and also not the least bit fun or even interesting.
The character Rube, always had such a caring, fatherly humanity to him, and the character Daisy had been allowed to develope from a self centered person into a really caring and decent person, who had feelings for Mason.
NONE of that was in this movie.
And, the story made no real sense.
The reapers, who had always been told by Rube, that their purpose was a "good" one, in that they removed people's souls before they died, so that they then didn't suffer, and then gave them guidance and helped them to make the journey that they needed to make to the light.
That was not here.
And, then for the group to decide that the "solution" for them, as they didn't like their new boss, was to murder him??
First off, aside from it being shown that he was uncaring and self centered, there was NEVER anything at all in the movie, as far as his behavior went, that could have even remotely been enterpreted as "justifying" him being murdered by them.
And, they had always been shown to be good, decent caring people.
They had never been "murderers", at all.
The only time that anyone had ever been "killed" was when a truely "evil" man had hooked up with Daisy, and then when she tried to break things off with her, he had attacked her and tried to kill her.
Mason had come to her rescue and saved her life, but in the process of doing so, had become so angry at the man, that he had accidentally killed him.
Then something evil had come out of him, an evil "graveling", which were the things that did kill people, and it was kiling people and tried to kill mason. That was when George told him that she wasn't afraid of him, and said, "I never did like you." and ran her hand over his arm the same way that they did in order to take people's souls.
But as he had NO soul, in his case it just caused him to disinegrate.
But, they never intentionally killed anyone.
So what the script had them doing was completely against their characters, and caused them to not be seen as the caring people they had been in the series.
There was never any explaination of why Rube was gone either, and at the end, when they were speculating, about, now that they had murdered their "Reaping Boss" they now didn't know what was going to happen to them next, hundreds of blank postems float down all over George?
What exactly is that supposed to mean?
And then she says, "Oh, I am SO screwed."
Well, again, "WHY??"
As Rube always gave them postems with the names of the people they were to reap, the address of where it would happen, and the "TOD" for "time of death", so they could find them, an unanswered question could have been, "Who was it, who gave Rube the information for him to pass on to the Reaper?"
That was never answered.
If postems had fallen with the information on them, then you could figure that possibly, it was now going to be George's responsibility to do Rube's job. But they were all completely blank.
The series was great. But, especially with the time that has passed, since the series was on, it isn't going to be brought back.
ALL of the orginal characters all seemed to have been so well chosen for their parts.
Every single one, seemed to be so believable, and completely well developed as people, and the interactions between the family members were SO real. We found "ourselves" in the series over and over, in the ways that the parents and girls interacted.
In the movie, NONE of that was there.
The only part I liked at all, was that George did finally talk to her sister.
All through the series, by her leaving things for her sister, she had, already contacted her, and her mother, in various ways, so that her sister, knew that she was around.
Why not at some point allow her, and them, to know that she existed, and that she was alright, and happy in her new life, and looking over them?
And then, because they would have that comfort, they would be finally able to "move on".
That was the only good part of the entire movie, and the only part that made any sense.
Great actors and actresses from the series were given a really stupid movie that made no sense at all to do, and had to do it without two major characters from the series.
A major disappointment, especially when we all, who loved the series so much, knew how great a movie they could have made with just a little more effort.
Description of Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 02/17/2009 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: RSTORY 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.
Beyond Dead Like Me: Life After Death
 Dead Like Me: The Complete Collection |  Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season |  Dead Like Me - The Complete Second Season |
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