Over Her Dead Body

You don't have to believe in ghosts to laugh at Over Her Dead Body, mainly because the cast wholeheartedly accepts the silly concept and rolls with the script's goofy curves.

There is no good reason on Earth to like Over Her Dead Body. Which just makes the fact that it's a hoot all the more enjoyable.

It is not terrible, but it barely holds our interest for its hour-and-a-half running time.

The quirky romantic comedy works largely because of good writing.

This madcap paranormal love triangle is charming on its own terms.

The line is fine between cute and annoying. Somewhere in Over Her Dead Body, Eva Longoria Parker crosses it, and once that's done it's nearly impossible to go back.

Eva Longoria Parker and Paul Rudd are one of the more bizarrely mismatched couples in recent memory.

Why is nobody utterly in awe of ghosts in Over Her Dead Body and so many other ghostcoms? Here is a supernatural manifestation from another realm, and everybody treats it as a plot device

The slapstick is crudely executed. And the movie never makes up its mind regarding how nasty the ghost of Kate is going to play her revenge tactics.

Paul Rudd's talents as a thinking woman's charmer are wasted -- as are those of amiable Jason Biggs in a weak variation on the pop theme of being a gal's gay best friend.

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.

Over Her Dead Body is yet another romantic comedy in which the filmmakers think a clever premise precludes the hard work of developing that premise.

Refreshingly, writer/director Jeff Lowell mines humor not in the boy-meets-girl or ghost-haunts-girlfriend situations. The funniest stuff is the veterinarian's throwaway observations about the difference between dog people and cat people.

First-time feature film director Jeff Lowell, a TV writer who made the leap to features with John Tucker Must Die in 2006, can't quite get the handle on this romantic comedy.

The movie is vapid, but it's boring only if you really mind clocking TV vegetation time while sitting in a movie theater.

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.

Though the tale may fall short on imagination, the principal actors make Over Her Dead Body livelier than one would expect.

The performances in Over Her Dead Body are as sit-comish as the material demands.

Over Her Dead Body is much worse than decent and proves that Longoria Parker can be as annoying as she is beautiful.

The generally stiff Body conjures up just a handful of laughs, no more.

A marginal comedy with a romance that never quite catches fire, thanks to the slim sizzle between Bell and Rudd and the leadenness of Longoria Parker.

Over Her Dead Body is a hopeless pastiche of timeworn plotlines, hackneyed dialogue and stultifying direction; to call it amateurish is a slap in the face to amateurs everywhere.

The dead-on-arrival romantic comedy Over Her Dead Body is, if nothing else, a conversation piece. Among the important discussion points it raises are, "What was Paul Rudd thinking?" and "Does Eva Longoria Parker think?"

Housewife or not, you'd have to be desperate to enjoy this clumsy supernatural comedy, dogged by truly lifeless plotting and a near-total lack of chemistry.

This deadly supernatural comedy (make that attempted comedy) manages to trash a sure-fire premise, that of a restless spirit wreaking havoc on the lives of the living.

For a so-called "supernatural comedy," there's nothing super, natural or comedic about it.

Mixing half-baked raunchiness and half-hearted romance, first-time writer and director Jeff Lowell can't decide what kind of movie he's making.

This charmless, mediocre romantic comedy with supernatural overtones is nearly laughless.

As far as romantic comedies go, the hackneyed Over Her Dead Body falls more towards the bottom of the heap -- save for one bright spot: ingénue Lake Bell.

There's something really special about the way Over Her Dead Body makes its 93 minutes seem more like nine hours.

Over Her Dead Body, billed as a romantic comedy fantasy, is in reality a mystery: The Case of the Missing Jokes.

Over my dead body is the only way I could recommend the new movie starring Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd and Lake Bell.

The silver lining in the film is Paul Rudd, who brings some nuance to his character that, given his past work, you can assume was all his doing.

Eva Longoria Parker plays her role in snippy sitcom style, functioning less as an actress than a 95-pound punch-line delivery system.

Eva Longoria Parker dies in the opening minutes of Over Her Dead Body, but unfortunately, she doesn't stay dead long.

So far, first-time director Jeff Lowell's screwball romantic comedy Over Her Dead Body was the worst night at the movies in this young year.

It's not quite true to say that death is preferable to sitting through Over HerDead Body, but it's a safe bet that if you struggle through this witless romantic comedy the lure of being six feet under will cross your mind.

Eva Longoria Parker could have a career on the big screen if she promises to never again work with writer-director Jeff Lowell.

The grating presence of Longoria Parker will be enough to ruin the movie for many, but she's just one of many shortcomings in this romantic comedy, which seriously lacks both romance and comedy.

Over Her Dead Body features an abundance of stillborn scenes.

As a potential date movie, Over Her Dead Body doesn't stand a ghost of a chance.

Where Over Her Dead Body should soar with blistering verbal gymnastics, it limps with empty sass about weight gain and skin blemishes.

Paul Rudd fairly coasts through Over Her Dead Body, and it’s hard to hold his bemused boredom against him: he’s playing the Demi Moore role in a rom-com gloss on Ghost.

The Eva Longoria Parker movie is pretty awful, and in fact only watchable by virtue of the questionable but comparatively rewarding participation of Paul Rudd.

Over Her Dead Body is to romantic comedy what Spam is to meat. But at least with Spam, you get cool packaging.