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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 languid, thinly sketched and habitually unfunny supernatural comedy.

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

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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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

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.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
01/31/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

None of it makes sense -- logically, emotionally or dramatically.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
01/31/08
John Anderson
John Anderson
Washington Post

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.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
02/01/08
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
Globe and Mail

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.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
01/31/08
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

While not horrifically bad, it's as mediocre a motion picture as you're likely to find in a multiplex this season.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
01/30/08
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

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.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
02/01/08
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

As far as romantic comedies go, the hackneyed Over Her Dead Body falls more towards the bottom of the heap

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
02/01/08
Kit Bowen
Kit Bowen
Hollywood.com

Sometimes a movie is so richly, gloriously, flamboyantly stupid that it starts to become fun to watch.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
02/01/08
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

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.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
02/06/08
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

After these 97 minutes, resting in peace sounds pretty good.

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
02/01/08
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

[Eva Longoria] brings a Jennifer Lopez level of suck to the screen.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
02/01/08
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

This January has been surprisingly pain-free, a rarity for sure, but this heap brings matters back to a stark reality.

Full Review Source: FromTheBalcony | comment Comment
01/31/08
Bill Clark
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony

It's not the dead body you have to worry about in Over Her Dead Body. It's the dead brain cells: yours.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal | comment Comment
02/05/08
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

'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)

Unlike its stubborn corpse bride, Over Her Dead Body will decompose quickly in the memory before fading forever into video oblivion.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
01/31/08
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
02/01/08
Kevin Crust
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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