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Over Her Dead Body

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Over Her Dead Body (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 92 Fresh: 12  Rotten:80 Average Rating: 3.7/10
 
Consensus: Lacks the ingredients of a successful romantic comedy. With few laughs and little romantic chemistry, Over Her Dead Body lacks the ingredients of a successful romantic comedy. more
 
Rated: 12A
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Theatrical Release: 01-02-2008
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 details at the reception venue on her wedding day when the unthinkable happens: she's crushed... [More]
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. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane, Stephen Root

Director: Jeff Lowell
Screenwriter: Jeff Lowell
Producer: Paul Brooks, Peter Safran
Composer: David Kitay

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 5, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case - Amaray
  • Full Frame - 1.33
  • Widescreen - 2.35
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Stereo 2.0 - English
  • Dolby Surround 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional

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A desperately unfunny farce that doesn't need an audience so much as an exorcist.

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02/05/08 03:15 AM
Neil Smith
BBC
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Disappointing comedy that struggles to overcome the combination of unlikeable characters, a poorly judged, largely unfunny script and a distinct lack of chemistry between the leads.

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01/31/08 03:15 AM
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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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!

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05/04/08 07:20 AM
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze
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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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02/25/08 01:46 PM
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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02/22/08 03:15 AM
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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'Over Her Dead Body' is DOA.

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02/09/08 07:13 PM
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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What exactly is the joke here? She's a ghost who wants to stop her fiancé from dating a living person. So she's the bad guy, right? And what's her plan? Just keep talking loudly? What a big comic set piece that is.

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02/08/08 04:21 PM
Fred Topel
Crave Online
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[A] clumsy supernatural comedy, dogged by truly lifeless plotting and a near-total lack of chemistry.

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02/07/08 01:42 PM
James Diers
E! Online
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the formula is a pretty simple one that works with just a few tweaks here and there to make it different from the rest.

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02/07/08 09:17 AM
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)
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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.

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02/06/08 07:07 PM
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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This insipid, staggeringly dumb entry from New Line stoops to unprecedented new lows likely to stun even the most jaded cynic.

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02/06/08 10:10 AM
Wade Major
Boxoffice Magazine
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It's marketed as a supernatural romantic comedy. The problem is that it's neither very romantic, nor comedic -- and things aren't appreciably better on the supernatural front.

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02/05/08 11:19 PM
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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...a clanking Frankenstein of a movie, stitched together from pieces plundered from the bodies of romantic comedies that went before.

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02/05/08 10:16 PM
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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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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02/05/08 08:31 PM
Mark Dujsik
Mark Reviews Movies
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It's not the dead body you have to worry about in Over Her Dead Body. It's the dead brain cells: yours.

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02/05/08 05:33 PM
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Ghost gets a romantic-comedy redo with this strained love-triangle tale.

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02/05/08 01:02 PM
Tyler Hanley
Palo Alto Weekly
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Over Her Dead Body will find its best audience on airplane flights, where viewers will be unable to get up and leave without parachutes.

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02/05/08 06:55 AM
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International
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Move over, 'One Missed Call.' You now face stiff competition for worst movie of the year from 'Over Her Dead Body.'

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02/02/08 12:12 PM
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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If it were considered unseemly to speak ill of dead films, then the only thing to recommend about Over Her Dead Body would be the lead actor's palpable indifference.

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02/02/08 10:25 AM
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
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"Over Her Dead Body" tells the story of an obnoxious and thoroughly unpleasant woman who dies in the first scene and still continues to annoy and aggravate. Unfortunately,it turns out that the film itself suffers from the same condition.

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02/02/08 07:32 AM
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com
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