Dec 10 2007'Over Her Dead Body' Trailer Gives Ghost Desperate Housewives Bad Rap

OK, I get that Eva Longoria is the vengeful ghost of an ex-fiance, desperately trying to stop psychic Lake Bell from getting with Paul Rudd. And I get that Ghost meets slapstick romantic-comedy might have been, in theory, a moderately entertaining concept. And I've learned that the only way a woman can be the protagonist in a romantic-comedy is if she shows a complete lack of motor skills, thereby making her charmingly clumsy. But none of this answers why are all of the gags are seemingly pulled from Wile E. Coyote cartoons.

Between Jason Biggs catching his arm on fire and dipping it in boiling water, Eva Longoria falling out of a window, and Lake Bell getting scorched by an enormous fireball, leaving only a comedic black soot on her face, (did the budget not allow for her becoming a pair of blinking eyeballs on a pile of charred ashes?) it's a wonder there aren't any anvils or sticks of dynamite.

At least it's nice to see Paul Rudd in a leading role, however inane it may be.