Over Your Dead Body Review: Jason Segel & Samara Weaving’s Action-Comedy Is Too Messy For Its Own Good

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A distinct strain of sadness runs through Over Your Dead Body. The Lonely Island's Jorma Taccone, working off a script from former SNL writers Nick Kocher & Brian McElhaney (better known as the performance duo BriTANicK), infuses this circus-like portrait of marital disharmony with a solid dose of necessary physical comedy, but it can still be rough to be subjected to two distinctly depressing characters behaving as poorly as possible toward one another. It can also be wickedly hilarious, and when it works, the film plays like an exceedingly violent take on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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