Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)

With that summary title, I'll come up with what I didn't like first. Daisy (Sarah Wynter) was a serious mis-cast. She came across flat and amateurish. It was, literally, painful to watch (and I have watched this movie quite a number of times).They also made a mistake moving the location from Vancouver to Montreal. The West Coast scenery was missing, making it hard to believe it was supposed to be in Washington State. I know you gotta go where the money takes you, but still. And, of course, since the real Waffle House was demolished in New Westminster, that set was gone anyway.But there were also things that I liked. What happens when the team leader gets their lights? The movie was really the job interview for the new team leader, and only George passed it. I had also wondered - was it possible for a reaper's character to grow and mature? The series tantalized this question, with Daisy and Mason moving forward (especially in Season 2), but then also falling back repeatedly. In the movie, George grew. Which is also why she got the reaper promotion.And besides, don't you want to know what happens when a reaper reconstitutes themselves from their ashes and discovers they are in orbit?

Yes, there are a ton of plot holes in this that make no sense when compared to the series. The lack of Rube really hurts, but the lack of Daisy does even more, simply because instead of just not having her character appear in this, they have another actress play her and her writing is completely uncharacteristic when compared to the show's Daisy. Her development in the show was genius and it's like this film forgot all of her episodes in Season 2 and how much she had progressed. It's pretty much a new character with the name "Daisy" and well, it's awful. Mason is also written in a way that doesn't make much sense. He's a screw-up, but he cared about Rube! Only Roxy and George have some of their show personalities. That whole reaper-Henry Ian Cusick storyline here really sucks.What saves the film a bit is the family stuff. Okay, some plot holes as well, but the George/Reggie stuff is handled adequately, and also sort of gives closure to the show's ongoing storyline.Really, this is a pretty mediocre film, and when compared to the show even worse, but it does have some good moments here and there. Stick with the show, this isn't needed.

I like the original TV show very much, the idea of life after death is good. && if you seen it you'll know. Only thing that bother me is the TV show doesn't have a happy ending, and I love happy endings.This movie is really a good ending of the TV show. I remember a line from 'Dellamorte Dellamore',it's "you know, life goes on", I love this line, life sometimes really doesn't give you any choice, you have to live the way you are, sadly but true. So as the ending of Dead like me. Reggie is really beautiful grown up. And George(Ellen Muth),I like her acting and I heard she is a member of mensa? so she must a high IQ, really smart! Laura Harris didn't show in the movie,this kind of let me down,like her very much,Sarah Wynter(Daisy) acted a little wired...

The original Dead Like Me is one of my favorite TV series so I was definitely looking forward to this direct-to-video movie. Dreading the worst of course, but still looking forward to it.Well it's not bad, but it's not good either. It's great that most of the original cast are used, but those who aren't are sorely missed, including Mandy Patinkin's wry Rube, and Laura Harris's bitchy Daisy Adair. Sarah Wynter, who replaces Harris, is bitchy and slutty to excess, which makes Daisy more jaded than self-centered.The story is about George Lass resolving things with her family, as well as with a new handler who has replaced Rube and doesn't care if the reapers do their work or not. The former plot line is great, but the latter, not so much, which made for an uneven movie. Ellen Muth is still perfect as the dry George, and Cynthia Stevenson and Britt McKillip are just as convincing as her mom and sister who've coped as best they could in the years since George's death. I was glad to revisit the show, but this movie's really for hardcore fans of the series only, and would actually work better if they had cut out the new handler crap and stuck it as the last episode of the series instead.