For a film that’s meant to entertain, supply some laughs and tug at your heart strings (with the orchestra on cue), “Ghost Town,” a lighthearted comedy starring Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Téa Leoni, about an easily annoyed, misanthropic and grumpy dentist who gains the ability to communicate with ghosts after a colonoscopy gone wrong, does not disappoint.

Directed by David Koepp (screenwriter for the latest Indiana Jones installation, “Mission: Impossible” and “Death Becomes Her”), Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is an English Expat dentist with a practice in New York City, which is a problem most days since Pincus goes out of his way to avoid interactions with people. When he must undergo a routine colonscopy, Pincus, an uptight, take-no-chances kinda guy, unnecessarily requests anesthesia, much to the dismay of his doctor (Kristin Wiig). After leaving the hospital, he begins to experience hallucinations of people following him on the streets and subsequently returns to the hospital to alert the doctor. The only problem is that hallucinations are in fact real. Well, kinda.

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