so there this bride and you see and and she get crush to death by this statue that fall on her on the day of her wedding . then and get this and a year later and her former fiancé fall in love with a beautiful psychic and then and that beautiful psychic get haunt by the ghost of the disgruntle dead bride who want to keep her from steal her boyfriend he he it will be hilarious . polite chuckling . this and i like to envision and be how jeff lowell and the man who dream up over her dead body and present his concept to the studio exec over there at new line cinema . the big mystery be how those very same corporate bigwig could then turn right around and green light the project and allow lowell to direct the film as well a write the screenplay . for if you think that no movie could ever possibly be as bad a this original premise sound and then clearly you have another think come . the only way in which it might have work be if the writer have simply go crazy with it and turn it into a no hold bar satirical farce . instead and want to ensure that he deliver a fuzzy and inoffensive and warmhearted romantic comedy and lowell engages in bore half measure every step of the way and tamp down the absurdity in favor of drab conventionality . indeed and over her dead body be so thoroughly inept and unfunny that it hard to know where exactly lowell think he be go with it . virtually every set up and joke and sight gag in the film be flat foot and poorly execute and with even the actor themselves seemingly aware of their predicament . how else to explain the halfhearted and lifeless performance of paul rudd and eva langoria parker and lake bell and jason biggs in their various role . i choose not to blame the actor and some of whom have prove their talent in good vehicle in the past ( that be particularly the case with rudd ) . but lowell and those studio execs sure have some plainin to do .