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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 3194
Released: May 6, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Eva Longoria Parker (TV?s Desperate Housewives) stars in this devilishly funny romantic comedy about holding onto the ones you love...even after you?re gone. When Kate (Longoria Parker) is killed by an ice sculpture on her wedding day her fianc? Henry (Paul Rudd Knocked Up) gives up on romance until he falls for the beautiful psychic (Lake Bell TV?s Boston Legal) who?s supposed to be helping him move on. But Kate?s not having it and she?s going to do whatever it takes to send their budding relationship six-feet-under.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 794043121319 Manufacturer No: 1000038615
Description of Over Her Dead Body:
Eva Longoria Parker (Desperate Housewives) plays a woman named Kate who gets crushed by an ice sculpture on her wedding day and comes back from the dead to make sure her fiance, Henry (Paul Rudd) never finds love with anyone else. Unfortunately for Kate, Henry's sister has dragged him to see Ashley (Lake Bell, Surface), a psychic who revives Henry's will to romance. Ashley is the only person who can see Kate--a fact that Kate uses to her advantage and makes Ashley's life miserable. Over Her Dead Body wants to be a classic screwball comedy in the vein of Topper. It's packed with clever touches and comic setups--and if the plot never quite reaches the lunatic pitch Over Her Dead Body is reaching for, the movie's basic goodheartedness may leave you in a forgiving mood. Longoria Parker, whose charms may be better suited to television, doesn't quite have the crackle her roles demands (the movie was originally subtitled Ghost Bitch), but Rudd and Bell have a nice combative rapport that recalls the verbal sparring of movie couples in the 1930s. Jason Biggs and Lindsay Sloane (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch) provide nifty supporting performances. All in all, Over Her Dead Body never fully gels, but there's some definite fun to be had as it bounces along. --Bret Fetzer
Over Her Dead Body Reviews:
Beautiful jealousy! 
2008-07-27 - This movie could've improved, but overall, it was great... It had me falling out of my chair sometimes!
another lame romantic fantasy 
2008-07-20 - "So there's this bride, you see, and she gets crushed to death by this statue that falls on her on the day of her wedding. Then, get this, a year later, her former fiance falls in love with a beautiful psychic... and then, that beautiful psychic gets haunted by the ghost of the disgruntled dead bride who wants to keep her from stealing her boyfriend...he he...it`ll be hilarious!." Polite chuckling.
This, I like to envision, is how Jeff Lowell, the man who dreamed up "Over Her Dead Body," presented his concept to the studio execs over there at New Line Cinema. The big mystery is how those very same corporate bigwigs could then turn right around and green light the project, allowing Lowell to direct the film as well as write the screenplay.
For if you think that no movie could ever possibly be as bad as this original premise sounds, then clearly you have another think coming. The only way in which it might have worked is if the writer had simply gone crazy with it and turned it into a no-holds-barred satirical farce. Instead, wanting to ensure that he delivered a fuzzy, inoffensive and warmhearted romantic comedy, Lowell engages in boring half-measures every step of the way, tamping down the absurdity in favor of drab conventionality. Indeed, "Over Her Dead Body" is so thoroughly inept and unfunny that it's hard to know where exactly Lowell thought he was going with it. Virtually every set-up, joke and sight gag in the film is flat-footed and poorly executed, with even the actors themselves seemingly aware of their predicament. How else to explain the halfhearted, lifeless performances of Paul Rudd, Eva Langoria Parker, Lake Bell and Jason Biggs in their various roles?
I choose not to blame the actors, some of whom have proven their talents in better vehicles in the past (that is particularly the case with Rudd). But Lowell and those studio execs sure have some `splainin' to do.
Cute Movie, But I Didn't Connect With It 
2008-07-16 - This movie is about a woman played by Eva Longoria Parker who dies on her wedding day, and she goes to Heaven, or someplace close to it. She is sent back to Earth, and she thinks she is being sent back to stop her fiancee from seeing another woman. She gets this idea from talking to another spirit. The other woman played by Lake Bell is pretending to be a pyschic or someone who can speak to dead people, and eventually gets involved with Eva's character fiancee, played by Paul Rudd.
Eva is funny, quick witted. I laughed a little here and there, but she commences to giving Lake's character a very difficult time by haunting her and threatening her. Eva's character does succeed in breaking up the relationship between her fiancee and the psychic, but eventually she sees what she has done to her living fiancee is wrong. Then at the end, Eva Longoria Parker works to get the two couple together, and there is a happy ending with the couple marrying. And Eva's character returns to Heaven or whatever place that is feeling good about what she did. There are always happy endings in romantic comedies, right?
So, in my little opinionated world, I think I would get Eva's character better if they would have showed Paul Rudd character more with Eva's character before she died. I didn't get their connection because the beginning before she died was so quick and only one scene. But the rest of the film was cute with funny scenes and dialogue set up to keep your attention. So, it wasn't all that bad.
I enjoyed it somewhat, but I know I won't watch it again.
Thanks.
Don't spend the time or money on this one! 
2008-06-16 - I love Eva but this movie was disappointing. I am addicted to Desperate Houswives and a big fan but this movie (+ her acting) did not do her justice. She looked like she had the worse fake tan and the movie just lacked humor and romance! So much for a romantic comedy!
This is just a remake of "Just Like Heaven" featuring Reese Witherspoon, which had a better plot and acting. If you are into these kinds of movies I recommend that one over this one.
I don't know how anyone could rate this movie higher than 1 star!
Sadly, it was a waste of money and time!
One of My Favorite Movies
2008-06-12 - Recently I saw Over Her Dead Body. It is a super funny movie about a girl named Kate. Kate died on her wedding day, and came back as a ghost to drive the girl who liked her husband insane. Eva Longoria played the character Kate who was hilarious. She really did a lot of funny things in the movie, but also she showed how sad she was to see her husband without her. In the end though Kate (Eva Longoria) realized what she had to fix so she could go to heaven. I really liked that because she made her husband Henry (Paul Rudd) who was depressed happy again. This movie is one of my favorite movies because it shows how to move on and make everyone happy. I think that is a really good thing because if you don't move on you can make yourself sad. Paul Rudd who played Henry Kate's husband was really good because he showed how he was moving on but still really cared about Kate. The husband in the movie really showed emotion. The girl who liked Allison's husband Lake Bell who played Ashley was funny, because she showed feelings and reality to be freaked out by Kate. The reason why Kate freaked her out was because Kate (Eva Longoria) was invisible to everyone but Ashley (Lake Bell). That part was really funny to watch, because Lake Bell looked crazy trying to talk to some one who no one could see. Eva Longoria, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell and every one else in the movie really did a terrific job. The movie was super hilarious and I think you should see it, especially if you love silly movies. Over Her Dead Body is one of my favorite movies.
