'Over Your Dead Body' Review: Samara Weaving and Jason Segel Face Off in a Comically Bad Romance

'Over Your Dead Body' review: Samara Weaving and Jason Segel face off in a comically bad romance

The Lonely Island's Jorma Taccone has been carving out his reputation as a filmmaker with bonkers parodies like the mockumentary Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping and the action-packed Saturday Night Live spinoff MacGruber, itself a spoof of MacGyver. With his latest, Over Your Dead Body, he moves into a grimmer brand of humor, remaking The Trip, a Norwegian dark comedy, written and directed by Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow, Hansel & Gretel Witch H…

'Over Your Dead Body' Has Two Tonal Lanes and Coasts In The Middle

Jason Segel and Samara Weaving are a married couple at the literal murderous edge in the relationship in a remake that can't settle on tone.

Keith’s Movie Korner: ’Over Your Dead Body' proves fun isn’t dead after all

By Keith Walther | Rose Law Group Reporter Who knew a film about marital discord could be so violently entertaining? “Over Your Dead Body” is a remake of the 2021 Norwegian film entitled “The Trip.” It is a dark comedy cleverly crafted to combine hilarious dialogue with blood-soaked violence that makes for an amusing thriller. Carried by the performances of its two stars, this story will leave you in stitches. tvinsider.com Dan (Jason Segel) and…