A desperately unfunny farce that doesn't need an audience so much as an exorcist.
Over Her Dead Body (2008)
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane, Stephen Root
Screenwriter: Jeff Lowell
Producer: Paul Brooks, Peter Safran
Composer: David Kitay
DVD Info
Release:
Jun 5, 2008
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
Reviews
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.
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!
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.
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.
[A] clumsy supernatural comedy, dogged by truly lifeless plotting and a near-total lack of chemistry.
the formula is a pretty simple one that works with just a few tweaks here and there to make it different from the rest.
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 insipid, staggeringly dumb entry from New Line stoops to unprecedented new lows likely to stun even the most jaded cynic.
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.
...a clanking Frankenstein of a movie, stitched together from pieces plundered from the bodies of romantic comedies that went before.
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.
It's not the dead body you have to worry about in Over Her Dead Body. It's the dead brain cells: yours.
Ghost gets a romantic-comedy redo with this strained love-triangle tale.
Over Her Dead Body will find its best audience on airplane flights, where viewers will be unable to get up and leave without parachutes.
Move over, 'One Missed Call.' You now face stiff competition for worst movie of the year from 'Over Her Dead Body.'
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.
"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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