CHICAGO - MOVIE REVIEWS: OVER HER DEAD BODY

The ghost comedy (Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times labels it a "ghostcom") Over Her Dead Body, starring Eva Longoria Parker and Paul Rudd, doesn't have a ghost of chance of doing big business at the box office this weekend, most critics agree. Kyle Smith in the New York Post says that as a result of watching the film, "I think I picked up psychic powers ... I see dead box office." Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal says that watching it "is an out-of-brain experience." Kevin Crust in the Los Angeles Times calls it "uninspired, a frothy concept that offers little satisfaction in the way of execution." Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News thinks of it as "the Casper of supernatural sex farces." Gene Seymour in Newsday says the movie "makes its 93 minutes seem more like nine hours." But A.O. Scott in the New York Times gives the movie its best review, concluding that it "is not bad."

01/02/2008