Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Muriel's dysfunctional life

This film was first brought to my attention in a crash course on Australian films. I have a lot of trouble calling this a comedy because of the tragic overtones. In a classical sense it is a comedy because it starts out with a conflict and ends happily. Overall the tragic and sad scenes overwhelms the comic aspects. Muriel's family could hardly be any more dysfunctional if they tried and for much of the movie Muriel's main obsession is to get married and after she does, she realizes how silly it was. I like her confronting her family and fake friends, but I would have trouble recomending this movie to many people. Yes there are many comic scenes like Muriel's mother getting tired of telling her son to mow the backyard and torching it, but overall it isn't the comedy it claims to be.