There's a good deal of shouting and flailing comedy. On the trip to the funeral, Junior pulls an unloaded gun on his wife and threatens her; she also finds an earring in the car that does not ...

The shifted tone in Funeral Games may be due to Cameron's use of the younger protagonists, who stole too many pages from Philokles. Next to the philosopher, Satyrus and Melitta aren't very exciting.