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Over Her Dead Body (2008)

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Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 90

With few laughs and little romantic chemistry, Over Her Dead Body lacks the ingredients of a successful romantic comedy.

10

Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 28

With few laughs and little romantic chemistry, Over Her Dead Body lacks the ingredients of a successful romantic comedy.

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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 141,497

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Movie Info

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

PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min.

Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Jeff Lowell

May 6, 2008

$7.5M

New Line Cinema

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All Critics (110) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (90) | DVD (7)

[An] offense of a ghost comedy.

February 22, 2008 Comment
Rolling Stone
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You may remember Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. This is Bleh Spirit.

February 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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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.

February 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | Comment
Wall Street Journal
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The tale [falls] short on imagination.

February 1, 2008 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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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.

February 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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The worst night at the movies in this young year.

February 1, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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Ghost-lite romantic comedy is only so-so.

December 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

... neither funny, charming or anything else that will make it a memorable hour and a half of viewing pleasure.

February 12, 2009 Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | Comment
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

The film -- pinched from Ghost in every relevant particular -- is pretty moderate.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

The writing is intelligent, the pratfalls mostly work, and everyone is having a good time.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | Comment
Entertainment Insiders

Well, this could have been a lot worse, instead it's just a piece of forgettable, mediocre fluff.

July 22, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Sin Magazine

sweet jesus

July 5, 2008 Comment

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!

May 4, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

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!

May 4, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

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

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette | Comment
Colorado Springs Gazette

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.

February 25, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

'Over Her Dead Body' is DOA.

February 9, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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