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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Life-Changing!!, May 12, 2008
Over Her Dead Body is the kind of movie that is both a romantic and a comedy, and people who are lonely and miserable should see this film because it will make them see what they are missing out on. It is good-natured fun like the old-time screwball comedies that Jimmy Stewart used to be in, and even better than those.
The movie Over Her Dead Body is about a man-child played by Paul Rudd who is getting married to a terrible woman played by Eva Longoria. She is immediately killed (spoiler alert!) and he goes into a prolonged state of mourning and depression, which is where this movie takes a tragic turn. But will he stay like this forever? Not if his sister can help it! So she introduces him to her psychic friend played by Lake Bell, who is always good at slapstick comedy and much better at it than the late John Ritter, even though he was also great. Where the comedy hijinks resume is when Eva Longoria begins haunting Lake Bell to keep her away from her ex-fiancee, which is hilarious because she's completely dead.
This movie is similar to Hello Again! with Shelly Long or Beetlejuice with Dick Cavett, but it is much fresher and newer because Eva Longoria is in it, and there is a lot you can learn about the afterlife, even though this is a work of fiction. On the other hand, the comedy antics and stirring story share more in common with a movie like Antonioni's The Passenger or some of the lesser known works of a young Roman Polanski.
Over Her Dead Body will charm you from beginning to middle, and then also at the end. It reaches into your body, grabs your charm bones and heart, and gives them a good tug. Also it will tickle your funny bone, when you're not looking.
I'm not saying it's Oscar material, but it's a perfect movie to see when what you want to do is celebrate life, death, romance, movies, and angels, ice sculptures, weddings, Jason Biggs, as well as belief in psychics and a higher power, plus the joy of being alive and the hope in an afterlife, and jealousy that women can have for other women taking their man (even when they're dead!) and personal diaries, candles, and love.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Engaging, somewhat cliched romantic comedy, April 28, 2008
This film has a good premise to generate comedic material - as Kate (Eva Longoria is about to marry her fiance (Paul Rudd) she is crushed to death by a falling ice angel sculpture... and she returns to haunt/harrass the psychic who begins to fall into a romance with him. Add to that the gay? catering business partner of the psychic medium (played by Jason Biggs) and there's a number of pretty funny scenes and plot twists. Although the plot seemed clever, Eva Longoria's character seemed to weaken the film - she seemed rather one-dimensional and stuck on auto-pilot in that role. The remainder of the cast seemed to get into their characters pretty well and the film was well-paced and fun... I personally like supernatural elements in films and this one has that as key to its premise... there's a particularly funny scene where the medium goes to a Catholic priest to ask for help in "getting rid of" the ghost and another scene where the ghost puts on a threatening, demonic pose a la The Exorcist to attempt to scare the medium away from the surviving fiance. If you like a somewhat cliched but still clever romantic ghost comedy you'll likely want to see this film.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of My Favorite Movies, June 12, 2008
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.
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