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Over Her Dead Body

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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: 12A [See Full Rating] for sexual content and language.

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

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

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
10/18/08
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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A desperately unfunny farce that doesn't need an audience so much as an exorcist.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
02/05/08
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
BBC
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A languid, thinly sketched and habitually unfunny supernatural comedy.

Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
02/01/08
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Screen International

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.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
01/31/08
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Tom Meek
Tom Meek
Boston Phoenix

... neither funny, charming or anything else that will make it a memorable hour and a half of viewing pleasure.

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
02/12/09
JimmyO
JimmyO
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01/30/09
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10/18/08
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N/R

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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
10/18/08
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The writing is intelligent, the pratfalls mostly work, and everyone is having a good time.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | comment Comment
10/18/08
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Entertainment Insiders

Well, this could have been a lot worse, instead it's just a piece of forgettable, mediocre fluff.

Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment Comment
07/22/08
Austin Kennedy
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

sweet jesus

Full Review Source: sbs.is | comment Comment
07/05/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is

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!

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
05/04/08
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
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

Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette | comment Comment
02/28/08
Brandon Fibbs
Brandon Fibbs
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.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
02/25/08
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

[An] offense of a ghost comedy.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
02/22/08
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

'Over Her Dead Body' is DOA.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
02/09/08
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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.

Full Review Source: Crave Online | comment Comment
02/08/08
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Crave Online

[A] clumsy supernatural comedy, dogged by truly lifeless plotting and a near-total lack of chemistry.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
02/07/08
James Diers
James Diers
E! Online

the formula is a pretty simple one that works with just a few tweaks here and there to make it different from the rest.

Full Review Source: Gazette (MD) | comment Comment
02/07/08
Jeffrey Lyles
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)
 
 
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