Featuring a love triangle and interminable lame jokes, Over Her Dead Body is a lacklustre romantic comedy. Directed and written by Jeff Lowell, the film has an interesting premise that is eclipsed by the jokes and weak plot.
Riding on the fame of Desperate Housewives, Eva Longoria Parker plays Kate, a vindictive corpse bride hell-bent on wrecking havoc on amiable psychic Ashley (Lake Bell) who makes a pass at the ghost's former fiance Henry (the always charming Paul Rudd).
A year after Kate is killed in a freak ice sculpture accident, the genial Henry is still in mourning and resigned to a loveless life. To help him move on, his sister Chloe (Lindsay Sloane) persuades a psychic to trick Henry into believing his deceased fiancee wants him to find love again.
As Henry and Ashley begin to fall for each other, the spiteful ghost does everything in her power to drive Ashley away.
Much of the movie is devoted to the cruel pranks the ghost plays, but these provide little comic relief.
Enjoying top-billing in her big-screen debut, Longoria Parker is credible as the shrill shrew fresh from the netherworld to take revenge. Equally mesmerising is Rudd who gets the only worthwhile lines in an otherwise dumb movie. But the glittering star power does nothing to fill the plot's glaring loophole - why the friendly Henry wanted to marry Kate in the first place.
