Photo by: Courtesey of New Line Cinema

“Over Her Dead Body” opened this weekend, but hardly anyone noticed.

In the theater where this reviewer sat, only 12 people were waiting in mild anticipation.

The movie is the classic boy-meets-girl story with a twist that has been attempted more times than it has been successful.

Henry (played by Paul Rudd) loses his wife Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) on their wedding day when she dies unexpectedly. Henry is depressed and is convinced by his sister Chloe to visit Ashley (Lake Bell), a psychic so that he can contact his dead wife.

When Ashley does not succeed, Chloe begs her to pretend that she has actually made contact with Kate. Through a series of events Henry and Ashley start dating and Kate’s ghost makes an appearance.

If you have seen “Just like Heaven” with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo and any other mediocre romantic comedy then you have seen this movie before.

This film makes theatergoers wonder when the writers’ strike actually began. The dialogue is so poor that it seems to have been written in a game of telephone.

The movie was supposed to be a romantic comedy but no one in the theater reacted to the movie at all. No one laughed, cooed or cried. There were rustlings of belongings, sighs and whispers of “excuse me” as disappointed patrons walked out of the theater.

It seems impossible that a movie as terrible as “Over Her Dead Body” could attract such big name actors as Eva Longoria Parker from the hit TV show “Desperate Housewives,” Paul Rudd of “Knocked Up” fame, Jason Biggs of “American Pie,” and a few others without an embarrassingly large budget.

These actors were the only reason that people left their houses to see this movie.

In fact, the film was so forgettable that it probably would not have been filmed if these big-name actors were not in it.

In short, few people above the age of 12 would recommend this film unless they had something to do with the production.

If you want to see this movie, definitely wait until it makes its television debut because it is not worth the money to see it in theaters.