'Dead Body' expires amid lifeless story, cast

Dead Body

(PG-13) H1/2

There's life after death for Eva Longoria Parker in "Over HerDead Body," her first big-screen movie as the top-billed star.

There may not be much life after "Desperate Housewives" for her,though, if all she does is slight variations of the prissy, fidgety,high-and-mighty narcissist she plays on the show.

If Longoria Parker's "Housewives" character Gabrielle were killedand came back to haunt the living, she'd be pretty much the samemeddlesome, manipulative, gabby spirit the actress plays in "OverHer Dead Body."

A little nicer, maybe, and a little less scheming than Gabrielle.But this lifeless romance about a jealous ghost …