Film Review – Over Your Dead Body

A member of the comedy trio Lonely Island, Jorma Taccone hasn’t directed a feature film in a decade, last seen on the big screen with “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.” He’s mostly worked in television, trying to revive the “MacGruber” brand with a streaming series few watched, and he contributed to “Knuckles,” a “Sonic the Hedgehog” spin-off show. Taccone returns to moviemaking with “Over Your Dead Body,” which is a remake of a 2021 Tommy Wirkola Norwegian picture (“The Trip”), and a darkly comedic one at that. Screenwriters Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney (who recently created the dismal “Pizza Movie”) are out to bring European sensibilities to an American do-over, and they try to stick as close as possible to the source material. Taccone is tasked with managing the strange tone of “Over Your Dead Body,” but he can’t handle the execution, manufacturing a twisty offering that isn’t particularly funny nor all that surprising. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com