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The Kids In The Hall: Death Comes To Town

THE KIDS IN THE HALL: DEATH COMES TO TOWN (Alliance, 2010) D: Kelly Makin, w/ Scott Thompson, Bruce McCulloch. Rating: NNN DVD package: NNN Rating: NNN


It drags now and then, but Death Comes To Town has enough chuckles to keep you amused through its eight half-hour episodes.

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Death (Mark McKinney), looking like a third-string WWE wrestler, rolls into Shuckton, Ontario, to hang out at the No Tell Motel and obsess about failed hockey star Ricky Jarvis (Bruce McCulloch in a giant fat suit) until his pager sends him to the murder of Mayor Larry Bowman (also McCulloch).

Local petty crook Crim Hollingsworth (Scott Thompson) takes the fall, but Ricky launches his own investigation centred on the mayor’s power-hungry, drunk widow (Dave Foley).

Enough killing and dark secrets ensue for a nighttime soap.

Smart, funny situations and dialogue figure in threads involving an aged cat on life-support and a gay necrophiliac coroner (Thompson).

The Kids aren’t noted for fine acting, but Thompson makes Crim a very real and sympathetic character without ever losing his comic edge, and Foley does an eerily perfect middle-aged drunk woman.

The bloopers are nothing special, but the extended scenes offer more laughs.

EXTRAS Deleted and extended scenes, bloopers. Widescreen. English audio and subtitles.

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