A clever concept brought to colorful life thanks to a witty script, a quick pace, and a pretty darn excellent ensemble of comedic performers.
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07/20/06
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard
Director: Ivan Reitman
Reviews for My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Everything that might be annoying in a romantic comedy works here.
07/20/06
About as far from 'super' as a comedy can get.
07/20/06
Uma is sexy, Luke is funny, and the script is hilarious...check it out!
07/20/06
Girlfriend skewers both superhero films and romantic comedies. And it does so with surprising deftness; Girlfriend is not only the funniest film of summer; it may be the best superhero film since Spider-Man.
07/20/06
A big waste of time, money and space, but that should come as no surprise to anyone who has already been burned by promise of a film featuring Uma Thurman in tight-fitting pants (The Avengers, anyone?).
07/20/06
a comedy whose very first visual gag is overpowered by implausibility and whose 'heroine' is an unsympathetic wacko instead of being given the feminist revenge bent that might have worked.
07/20/06
The movie's too slapdash to keep its characters consistent, but this has its moments.
07/20/06
Two lessons learned: Dump a superheroine at your own risk. And animatronic sharks sure have come a long way since the days of Jaws.
07/20/06
There's no real insight into relationships, or superheroes for that matter, just a pleasant enough date movie for geeks -- and the guys who love them.
07/20/06
It's not terrible, but it's mediocre and not much more than a string of cheesy sex gags.
07/20/06
For a movie about an unstable superhero who dresses like Carrie Bradshaw after a gamma zap, Ex-Girlfriend is cleverly attuned to the real-life nadirs of big-city psychosexual dynamics.
07/20/06
Top CriticUma Thurman does double duty as a New York neurotic, Jenny Johnson, and a secret superhero, G-Girl, in a shaky comedy directed by Ivan Reitman.
07/20/06
Top CriticWilson does his callow good-guy routine (if you close your eyes you'd swear he was his brother, Owen) and Thurman looks as if she'd rather be stalking prey in Kill Bill.
07/20/06
If anything, it's too airy and tends to be forgotten as soon as the lights go up. But it's certainly pleasant enough while it's on.
07/20/06
My Super Ex-Girlfriend lampoons conventional comic book movies and relationship films by nudging its needy title character into the Manhattan singles market. It's a silly premise, and it works beautifully.
07/20/06
Look, up on the screen--it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a lame superhero comedy...if it were a comic, it would be cancelled after three issues.
07/20/06
Simply goes through the paces more often than it excels at its initial ambitions.
07/20/06
The two starring performances are spot on. Wilson gets the tone that screenwriter Don Payne so expertly evokes. Thurman is beautiful, fearless and perfectly believable as a superhero.
07/20/06
If you're going for plot, My Super Ex-Girlfriend will disappoint, but if you're going for a light look at aspects of the superhero experience that most 'serious' genre entries ignore, the film delivers.
07/20/06
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