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"Over Her Dead Body"

Rated: PG-13

Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs

Directed by Jeff Lowell

Run time: 95 min.

Rating: 0.5/5 stars

"Over Her Dead Body" should go back to the graveyard of terrible movies from which it came.

The movie's humor never quite draws out a laugh, the characters aren't lovable at all and the plot is so low-grade it will have audiences wishing to be buried before the end.

Eva Longoria Parker, known for her "Desperate Housewives" role, plays Kate, the most superficial … eh, jerk, who is about to be married to veterinarian Henry (Paul Rudd). But in her mask of complaining about everything on their wedding day, she throws a fit because her ice sculpture doesn't have wings, so she tells the maker to take it back.

And then it falls on her and she dies. Everything is great until, sadly, she comes back.

It's like a knock-off of "Ghost" but really horrible and emotionless.

She returns to earth as a ghost, assuming she is supposed to keep her boyfriend from being happy and dating other women.

Paul Rudd once again plays the guy who was burned by his girlfriend (in a different way as "40-Year-Old Virgin" yet strangely similar) and can't get over her. He's charming, but we've already seen this role. Try something else for a change.

Henry's sister takes him to a psychic, Ashley (Lake Bell) to try to communicate with Kate, and things go horribly wrong. In the midst of half-faking, half-lying, Kate actually does come to talk to her, and the ghost is hell-bent on keeping her away from Henry.

It's a big, long, complicated mess, and it gets even messier with Dan (Jason Biggs) jumping in at the wrong time.

Mr. "American Pie" Jason Biggs plays a guy who pretends to be gay for five whole years before telling Ashley he's in love with her. Of all the situations - and roles - to get stuck in, this has to be the worst Biggs has ever done.

Biggs' acting is the best in the movie, though. All of the characters seem to get lost in where the absurd plot is taking them except for him. He's the most comfortable and the most lovable character on screen, except for the animals, of course.

Throughout the whole movie, all you really want to do is kill Kate and throw her back in the grave. It's hard to imagine how a character as sweet as Henry could fall for her. He should consider himself lucky she died before they were married: What a nightmare!

There was only one funny part, and that was when Henry gets in a taxi after his dead ex started talking to him through a bird. Being as it's their only means of communication, he takes the bird and cage on his taxi ride to the airport, talking to the bird while the confused cab driver watches.

It was the only time a resonating chuckle came from the audience. A few humorous moments flew in here and there, but the movie leaves viewers in a coma, waiting for a good, hard belly laugh that just never comes.

This movie was definitely less of an enduring love story than it was a message for controlling, obsessive exes. Sometimes it's best to just move on. Easier done than said for this film.

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