OVER HER DEAD BODY(2008)
Another good movie with Paul Rudd! Very worth watching! B+
A review from Amazon:
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