With The Lonely Island\u2019s Jorma Taccone (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping<\/em>) in the director\u2019s chair, Over Your Dead Body<\/em> is a gruesome, darkly comedic depiction of spouses who decide to skip couples therapy to deal with their marital issues and go straight to homicide instead. Jason Segel plays Dan, an antsy, uninspired director helming adverts and short-form content rather than, as he once did, feature films. With his marriage to aspiring actor wife Lisa (Samara Weaving,\u202ftruly one of our greatest on-screen screamers) on the rocks, he whisks her away to his father\u2019s cabin in the woods, where they eat steak, play the world\u2019s most annoying game of Scrabble, and bicker constantly.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n But when he approaches her from behind, chloroform in hand, ready to knock her out before knocking her off (in order to claim her life-insurance money and finally be free of her belittlement), he gets a surprise\u2014 she was planning the exact same thing. They come clean about their bloody intentions, battling it out over whose crocodile tears would be most convincing to police, when some surprise visitors to the cabin leave them fighting for their lives in entirely different ways.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Weaving is one of the best Final Girls in the business…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n A remake of Thrash<\/em> writer-director Tommy Wirkola\u2019s 2021 Norwegian film The Trip<\/em>, this is a very starry affair \u2014 Segel is a modern comedy icon, Weaving is one of the best Final Girls in the business, and they\u2019re later joined by Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis, both on twisted, villainous form. As such, Over Your Dead Body<\/em> is always watchable, especially in the scathing back-and-forths between Dan and Lisa. The core dynamic between them is the most interesting element here, even if their problems (cheating, debt, lack of respect for each other\u2019s creative endeavours) feel generic and under-explored.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Once the rest of the ensemble join the party, though, the film switches gears, and moves into far more hyperbolic and graphic territory. The violence is intense and stylised but often feels unnecessary, and its shock value is totally negated by the understated reactions of the characters. There\u2019s also a nasty edge to its approach to sexual violence, which, instead of feeling jokey or subversive, simply leaves a sour taste in the mouth. It all adds up to a second half that feels like a totally different movie from the one the set-up promised, full of incidents the script doesn\u2019t give us nearly enough to care about, all of which unspool to a disappointing finale.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n A stellar cast, a few laughs and some stylish filmmaking can\u2019t quite make up for Over Your Dead Body\u2019s lack of dimension and off-putting tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unhappily married couple Dan (Jason Segel) and Lisa (Samara Weaving) go for a weekend away at a remote cabin \u2014 but rather than patching things up, they both enact plans to murder each other. 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