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Over Her Dead Body (2008)

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15

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.

9

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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Average Rating: 3.1/5
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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,

Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Jeff Lowell

May 6, 2008

$7.5M

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All Critics (111) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (91) | DVD (7)

[An] offense of a ghost comedy.

February 22, 2008
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
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
Wall Street Journal
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The tale [falls] short on imagination.

February 1, 2008 Full Review Source: USA Today
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
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
New York Daily News
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Not a life-changing romantic comedy, but it's funny enough, has charming leads and breezes by in its quick 97 minutes.

January 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Lyles' Movie Files
Lyles' Movie Files

Ghost-lite romantic comedy is only so-so.

December 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
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
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
Sin Magazine

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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!

May 4, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
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
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
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
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Audience Reviews for Over Her Dead Body

How on earth did this film get made? Isn't this the kind of script that goes straight in the bin? It's horrible. It's nothing short of tasteless and an insult to intelligence. The concept is nothing new but this is the worst 'Ghost' film with the exception of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (where unbelievably the Ghost are of people who are still alive). Packed full of the usual rom-com cliches, not forgetting the big 'it's not at all romantic' error that seems to be a must when making these types of films these days. It's a total mess, doesn't do what it's supposed to and will only appeal to the utterly moronic.
January 21, 2013
SirPant

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It was ok!
June 24, 2011
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