None of it makes sense -- logically, emotionally or dramatically.
Over Her Dead Body (2008)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:15
Rotten:84
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: With few laughs and little romantic chemistry, Over Her Dead Body lacks the ingredients of a successful romantic comedy.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content and language.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Feb 1, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $7,485,689
Synopsis: Screenwriter Jeff Lowell makes his directorial debut with the slightly unconventional romantic comedy OVER HER DEAD BODY. Overbearing bridezilla Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) is reviewing final... Screenwriter Jeff Lowell makes his directorial debut with the slightly unconventional romantic comedy OVER HER DEAD BODY. Overbearing bridezilla Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) is reviewing final details at the reception venue on her wedding day when the unthinkable happens: she's crushed by an ice sculpture of an angel before she makes it to the altar. A year later, her fiancé, Henry (Paul Rudd), is still devastated. To appease his concerned sister, Chloe (Lindsay Sloan), he visits Ashley (Lake Bell), a caterer and sometime psychic, in an attempt to contact Kate in the afterlife and gain some closure. Henry and Ashley hit it off, but misguided spirit Kate hasn't quite made it to heaven yet, and takes to haunting Ashley to protect her ex-fiancé from his potential new love interest. Will this otherworldly interference keep Henry from moving on with Ashley? Or will Kate realize that the best gift she can give Henry is happiness with someone new? Jason Biggs stars as Dan, Ashley's best friend and catering partner, who is a hiding a big secret from her. Rudd is his usual likable self as Henry, a veterinarian who manages to find humor in every situation despite his lingering sadness. Watch for a very amusing scene with his pet parrot. Longoria looks great as a very fashionable ghost, sporting a new hairdo and a new white outfit almost every time she appears on screen. Bell exudes an air of earnestness and optimism as Ashley, who decides that love is worth being haunted by a ghost. Character actor Stephen Root appears as the ice sculptor. [More]
Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane
Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane, Stephen Root, Jason Biggs
Director: Jeff Lowell
Director: Jeff Lowell
Screenwriter: Jeff Lowell
Producer: Paul Brooks, Peter Safran
Composer: David Kitay
Studio: New Line Cinema
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Reviews for Over Her Dead Body
A comedy like this needs actors with crack timing, a script that's worthy of them and an overall spirit of effervescence. But save for Rudd's occasional displays of sarcasm, there's little here that raises a smile, never mind a chuckle.
The movie's visuals and ghost jokes are a waste of time, but the delightfully kooky Bell and the wry Rudd occasionally strike spontaneous sparks.
A stumbling romantic lark about a bubbly psychic who throws down with the shrill ghost of her boyfriend's former fiancee, Over Her Dead Body is a stiff of a supernatural comedy.
While not horrifically bad, it's as mediocre a motion picture as you're likely to find in a multiplex this season.
An unsurprising entry in that hoary micro-genre of romantic comedies to feature a fresh-from-the-corpse disembodied spirit who just can't seem to get a move-on.
As far as romantic comedies go, the hackneyed Over Her Dead Body falls more towards the bottom of the heap
The film -- pinched from Ghost in every relevant particular -- is pretty moderate.
Sometimes a movie is so richly, gloriously, flamboyantly stupid that it starts to become fun to watch.
There are some flat-out great moments in a largely mediocre film, which is enough to shoot it to the very top of its class - it is midwinter, after all.
This January has been surprisingly pain-free, a rarity for sure, but this heap brings matters back to a stark reality.
It's not the dead body you have to worry about in Over Her Dead Body. It's the dead brain cells: yours.
Unlike its stubborn corpse bride, Over Her Dead Body will decompose quickly in the memory before fading forever into video oblivion.
For what is essentially a screwball comedy, Over Her Dead Body is surprisingly uninspired, a frothy concept that offers little satisfaction in the way of execution.
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.
[A] clumsy supernatural comedy, dogged by truly lifeless plotting and a near-total lack of chemistry.
The top-billed star of Over Her Dead Body dies within five minutes of her first appearance, and if the majority of the other characters in the movie suffered a similar fate, I wouldn't have complained much.
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