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My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
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Reviews Counted:125
Fresh:50
Rotten:75
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: My Super Ex=Girlfriend is an only sporadically amusing spoof on the superhero genre that misses the mark with a nerd-turned-superwoman who embodies sexist clichés.
Rated: 12A [See Full Rating] for sexual content, crude humor, language and brief nudity
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:04-08-2006
Synopsis: Beneath every superhero facade lies a real, often-misunderstood person. That is the lesson at the heart of MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND, a supernatural romantic comedy in which a jealous ex-girlfriend's... Beneath every superhero facade lies a real, often-misunderstood person. That is the lesson at the heart of MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND, a supernatural romantic comedy in which a jealous ex-girlfriend's rage reaches terrifying heights thanks to the fact that she also happens to be G-Girl, a sexy superhero who serves as the object of many male fantasies while routinely saving New York City from disasters like fires, thieves, and fast-approaching missiles. Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) has dealt with his share of difficult women, but when he meets bookish beauty Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman), his instincts tell him this one is a whole new kind of trouble. After initially playing hard to get, Jenny quickly latches onto Matt, professing her love to him before their relationship has even hit the one-week mark. While infatuated by her aggressive lovemaking and voluptuous figure, Matt is wary of her strange, clinging ways, and decides to call it quits just days after discovering that Jenny's alter ego is G-Girl. Breaking up with a superhero presents quite a few challenges, as Jenny readily cashes in on her inhuman strength for the purpose of getting even. Making things even more complicated are Matt's best buddy, Vaughn (THE OFFICE's Rainn Lewis), who is always there to offer relationship advice despite his unlucky ways with women, and possible love interest Hannah (Anna Faris). If being rejected by Matt doesn't push her over the edge, Matt's attempts to move on will, with things between Matt, Hannah, G-Girl, and her arch-nemesis, super villain Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard), erupting in an all-out war of supernatural proportions. [More]
Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard
Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Wanda Sykes
Director: Ivan Reitman
Director: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriter: Don Payne
Producer: Bill Carraro, Arnon Milchan, Gavin Polone
Composer: Teddy Castellucci
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Reviews for My Super Ex-Girlfriend
For Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters continues to cast one hell of a shadow. Shame — if he’d managed to resist the lure of big, shiny FX, this could have worked as a very black comedy...
At one point, jealous Thurman tosses a live shark into Matt and Hannah’s love nest. Unwittingly plunged into this farrago, the shark earns my sympathy.
Director Ivan Reitman is a good choice for this sort of thing - like Evolution, it's undeniably silly but extremely entertaining with it.
With such an amiable cast and lots of crisp dialogue, you can forgive the chinks in the armour.
While not particularly smart or funny, it's still thoroughly engaging.
What probably should have been an R-rated movie, ala "The 40 Year-Old Virgin," comes off as a half-hearted attempt at poking laughs with unlikable characters.
The funniest parts of the script, like its characters' casual acceptance of a comic-book reality, are so subdued that they can be missed entirely.
It teetered on the edge of totally sucking, but in the end, it actually pulled everything off.
Even if it falls slightly short of super, Ex-Girlfriend is a film that's well worth having around.
A one joke film that runs its comedic course in about thirty minutes.
Smoothly sends up romantic comedies and the superhero genre with such panache, it leaps into mid-summer as one of its best diversions.
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