Over Her Dead Body (2008)
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 107
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 91
With few laughs and little romantic chemistry, Over Her Dead Body lacks the ingredients of a successful romantic comedy.
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 31
With few laughs and little romantic chemistry, Over Her Dead Body lacks the ingredients of a successful romantic comedy.
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Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, and Lake Bell star in first-time feature filmmaker Jeff Lowell's heavenly romantic comedy concerning a female psychic and a doubtful skeptic who find their fledgling love affair thwarted by the latter's recently deceased fiancée. Henry (Rudd) and Kate (Longoria Parker) were all prepared to live out their "happily ever after" when tragedy struck from out of nowhere and Kate was killed on their wedding day. In the aftermath of the accident, a devastated Paul
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All Critics (111) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (91) | DVD (7)
[An] offense of a ghost comedy.
Top CriticYou may remember Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. This is Bleh Spirit.
The kindest context in which to put Over Her Dead Body, which was written and directed by Jeff Lowell, is that of a training film, a public display of people trying to master their craft. The best way to see it is not at all.
The tale [falls] short on imagination.
Writer/director Jeff Lowell settles for a story that takes a little too long to tell, concocted situations a little too implausible to buy and repartee that occasionally hits the dartboard but never gets close to the bull's-eye.
The worst night at the movies in this young year.
Not a life-changing romantic comedy, but it's funny enough, has charming leads and breezes by in its quick 97 minutes.
Ghost-lite romantic comedy is only so-so.
... neither funny, charming or anything else that will make it a memorable hour and a half of viewing pleasure.
The film -- pinched from Ghost in every relevant particular -- is pretty moderate.
The writing is intelligent, the pratfalls mostly work, and everyone is having a good time.
Well, this could have been a lot worse, instead it's just a piece of forgettable, mediocre fluff.
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A wild and wicked catfight comic romp as Eva Longoria gets booted up to heaven and returns to planet earth with hell to pay, when she fumes over sharing her man. No, not that one!
A wild and wicked catfight comic romp as Eva Longoria gets booted up to heaven and returns to planet earth with hell to pay, when she fumes over sharing her man. No, not that one!
Have romantic comedies so run out of ideas that they have to cherrypick other genres for new material? Hauntings and exorcisms aren't usually the stuff of romantic comedies, but that is exactly what you get in the ridiculously flawed yet funny, Over H
About a dozen other movies have used variations on this plot. And every single one of them has been smarter and more entertaining than Over Her Dead Body.
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