Last weekend, the wife and I decided to take in a movie, and we were debating between Burn After Reading and Ghost Town.  Burn After Reading still looks good, but we ended up going for the Ricky Gervais romantic comedy.  And as far as those kinds of movies go, it wasn’t bad.

I’m used to Mr. Gervais making me laugh out loud so hard that it hurts – he’s done it on The Office, Extras, in his stand-up. and now on film as well.  I actually snorted out-loud during one scene, which is a little embarrassing, but the the theatre wasn’t that crowded.  Though there weren’t that many laugh-out-loud moments, the movie was still really funny.

Think of The Sixth Sense if it was done as a comedy: instead of a little kid who wants to help the dead people that he sees, the guy with the “vision” is incredibly annoyed by those that haunt him.  There are still a few touching moments thrown in for good measure, but the movie does a good job of not going over the top with the extreme sappiness.

It isn’t going to smash any box-office records, and it wasn’t as admirable of a chick-flick as say, Love Actually, but for a date movie that the guy won’t hate, Ghost Town completely works.   And as Ricky implied at the Emmys, it was better than Evan Almighty.