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10/18/08
Over Her Dead Body (2008)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:3
Rotten:25
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: With few laughs and little romantic chemistry, Over Her Dead Body lacks the ingredients of a successful romantic comedy.
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... [More]
Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane
Director: Jeff Lowell
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Reviews for Over Her Dead Body
Top Critic[An] offense of a ghost comedy.
02/22/08
Top CriticYou may remember Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. This is Bleh Spirit.
02/01/08
Top CriticThe 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.
02/01/08
Top CriticThe tale [falls] short on imagination.
02/01/08
Top CriticWriter/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.
02/01/08
Top CriticThe worst night at the movies in this young year.
02/01/08
Top CriticFor 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.
02/01/08
Top CriticThe grating presence of Longoria Parker will be enough to ruin the movie for many, but she's just one of many shortcomings in this romantic comedy, which seriously lacks both romance and comedy.
02/01/08
Top CriticAn 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.
02/01/08
Top CriticThis is a film that's completely happy being its silly little self. And if it produces some giggles along the way -- and it does -- it has done its job.
02/01/08
Top CriticOver Her Dead Body itself is a movie haunted by the annoying, humorless performance of Eva Longoria Parker.
02/01/08
Top CriticOver Her Dead Body, billed as a romantic com edy fantasy, is in reality a mystery: The Case of the Missing Jokes.
02/01/08
Top CriticOver Her Dead Body is to romantic comedy what Spam is to meat. But at least with Spam, you get cool packaging.
02/01/08
Top CriticA 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.
02/01/08
Top CriticConsider for a moment how this movie might play if it took itself seriously. Would it be better than as a comedy? I suspect so.
02/01/08
Top CriticOver Her Dead Body may be the worst romantic comedy I've ever seen, although I hesitate to make such a resolute pronouncement about a movie that's so barely even there.
01/31/08
Top CriticFor what it is -- a romantic comedy about the rivalry between a jealous ghost and a flaky psychic for the love of a veterinarian -- Over Her Dead Body is not bad.
01/31/08
Top CriticA harebrained rom-com diversion offering few laughs and little romance.
01/31/08
Top CriticA one-eyelash-above-average supernatural rom-com.
01/31/08
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