Shawn's Over Her Dead Body Review

Well we're just at the mid February mark and already I'm starting to slack with these reviews. I actually watched this movie a few days ago now, I just haven't got around to reviewing it yet. Not that I have that much to say about it however. Anyway, here we go...

2008 Movie #19 - Over Her Dead Body

I hadn't even really heard of this movie until it kept playing over and over again on that preshow thing at my theatre. Unfortunatly (well not really) it was when I was cleaning theatres so there was only audio, no picture. Otherwise maybe I would have had a much better idea of just how bad this movie was going to be.

There's nothing more irritating than a movie that doesn't try to get away with anything that a sitcom can't get away with. That's essentially what this movie is...an 80 minute sitcom that I'm guessing no networks would have been interested in anyway. Seriously can't you almost even picture the cheesy theme song that would have gone with this shit?

"They were due to get married but things went wrong,
His wife was crushed by a statue and now she's gone,
Too bad for him she won't be gone for long,
Over Her Dead Body"

That's just verse 1. Accompany that with some awful 80's sitcom music and a chorus of singers and I think it's pretty much good to go.

or how about this...

"Next on an all new 'Over Her Dead Body, Stephen and Rebecca plan a weekend getaway together, but the only thing they'll be getting away from...is sanity!"

Doesn't it all work just a little too well.

So I'm sure you've long figured it out by now but I really wasn't a fan of this movie. It's not funny, it's very, very generic and simply doesn't need to exist. There's also a twist near the end pretty much stolen from There's Something About Mary that is so stupid and so unneeded that it just leaves you baffled to who approved all this.

Even more baffling is how they got some of the cast to sign on to this thing. Paul Rudd has proven time and time again he's a funny motherfucker, but this is pretty much the biggest step back that he ever could have taken. You can almost see the sadness in his eyes throughout the entire movie. At least he manages a couple decent lines here and there that I'm positive he came up with on the spot so he didn't have to spout the garbage the writer was trying to feed him.

Also I've liked Lake Bell since she was on Surface (very underrated show) so it's cool to see her in a leading role but I really hope the fact it was in this movie doesn't stop her from being offered parts in the future. She does the best she can with what she has and comes out pretty undamaged from this thing.

In conclusion, 2008 sure ain't off to a good start when it comes to comedies. I personally am looking to Charlie Bartlett (the review for that one should be up soon) and Semi-Pro to put this awful comedy pattern to rest.

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