Just Like Heaven

Judging from Just Like Heaven and Corpse Bride, this week's hot romantic comedy trend is sex with the dearly departed. The hot and steamy necrophilic action kicks off when overworked ER physician Reese Witherspoon dies in a traffic accident. Bored in the afterlife, she kills time by haunting her old apartment and strikes up a relationship with its new unsuspecting tenant (Mark Ruffalo)—who also happens to be the only one who can see and hear her. While it sounds like the kind of maudlin three-hanky affair that will make your balls retreat for the warmth of your lower stomach, it plays like a sitcom idea from 1965 and aims for laughs. That is, until the movie loses its fucking mind and goes for the truly absurd—without giving too much away, let's just say it could be the one romantic comedy Terri Schiavo could have starred in. It might not be the movie you want to watch this week, but with its oddball plot and decent onscreen chemistry between Ruffalo and Witherspoon, two hours in Just Like Heaven beats an eternity in hell.