Over Her Dead Body News

As mediocre as it looks, Over Her Dead Body does have one thing going for it: Eva Longoria.

But does her beautiful presence make it worth the price of admission? Let's see what a few critics have to say about this cheesy romantic comedy...

- For all its faults, Over Her Dead Body offers at least a few sporadic laughs, which automatically makes it one of the less awful January-February releases. -- MSNBC

- It's one of those movies you want to dismiss but can't bring yourself to turn away from. -- Arizona Daily Star

- ...so bland, lifeless and unimaginative I wanted to poke the screen to make sure it was really there. -- Larsen on Film

- Everything about the movie is as clunky and unimaginative as the title. -- The Associated Press

American Pie star Jason Biggs is starring in the upcoming comedy Over Her Dead Body. The young actor recently talked about the role with Rotten Tomatoes.

What attracted you to the Over Her Dead Body script?
Jason Biggs: Well, for comedies, if you read a script and you laugh, it's funny. If you don't laugh, it's not funny. I laughed a lot and that's a good starting point. I thought for romantic comedies, there is a certain formula that you generally need to stick to and the best romantic comedies will play with that formula a little bit. They'll do their best to be original where they can be and play with things.

While this may be a recurring theme, I feel like Jeff [Lowell, writer/director] put a lot of original ideas and original comedy into it and it just stood out. Part of that is that he [Jeff] is just so smart and edgy.

The first scene is Eva [Longoria Parker] getting crushed by an ice angel and it's pretty morbid and dark. You could be like "Is this movie going to be too extreme, too edgy?" But he was able to keep the right amount of edge but keep it accessible, fun, and entertaining I thought.

The role was really interesting for me because it actually was one of the toughest roles that I've done because it was really layered. I'm playing a straight guy who's playing a gay guy because he's in love. I had to figure out what Dan's impression of homosexuality was or how he would want to perform it. It had to be credible.

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