CineBad!!!

What would it be like if Death himself came to the world of the living disguised as a clueless stud? This movie examines that scenario in great detail (a two-tape set). When Bill, the Rich guy’s life span is about to expire (Hopkins,) Death himself decides to hang out with the human race to see what it’s all about. Instead of the usual black cloak and sickle attire, though, he’s jumped into the body of Brad Pitt, whom he conveniently splattered in a traffic accident.

Things are complicated, though, because Bill’s daughter has decided that she no longer wants to go out with her dad’s #1 associate, a mean sarcastic heartless businessman. She falls for Brad in a coffee shop before he gets splattered. When The Reaper shows up to dinner that night wearing Brad’s body, she of course doesn’t realize that he’s Death incarnate. She doesn’t Fear the Reaper, as she finds his odd fixation with eating peanut butter charmingly cute.

Death (now renamed Joe Black to better blend in with human society) makes an awkward human. In his state, however, he doesn’t fool an old Jamaican woman who’s on her death bed. We get to see Brad talk like a Rastafarian to her- it’s amusing.

The best part of this film, however, is all of the puns that present themselves effortlessly to the viewer. I never realized that there are so many idiomatic expressions involving death! For example, when Bill’s daughter and Death do the Wild Thing, is she on her Death Bed? And Bill is at Death’s Door when he knocks to summon him for dinner… all very amusing. Don’t miss the super Disneyesque ending complete with cheesy triumphantly sad symphonic music and fireworks.