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My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 77

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.

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 20

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.

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A regular guy finds out just how hard breaking up can truly be when attempting to call it quits with a clingy female crime fighter who doesn't want to let love die in director Ivan Reitman's super-powered romantic comedy. Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) was looking for love when he first met pretty brunette Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman), and at the time it seemed as if he may had finally actually found it. Jenny isn't just your typical girl, though, because despite her outwardly normal appearance she

PG-13,

Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Don Payne

Dec 19, 2006

$22.4M

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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.

August 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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...A movie that would rather tweak male paranoia than liberate a nerdette terrified of her powers.

July 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
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The Ivan Reitman-directed comedy manages to sap the charm from everyone in its cast, all of whom have shone quite brightly in other settings.

July 22, 2006
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The fusion of effects-fueled action fantasy with comedy worked well for director Ivan Reitman 22 years ago in Ghostbusters and, less so, five years ago in Evolution. But, it fails to save his latest, My Super Ex-Girlfriend.

July 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety
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There's a funny idea here, but you might not know it from Don Payne's script, or, for that matter, from Ms. Thurman's performance.

July 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal
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[Ivan Reitman's] funniest movie since Ghostbusters, and a riff on superhero mythology that plays like a mashup of Bewitched (the TV show, not the movie), The Breakup and Fatal Attraction.

July 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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Though not without its amusements, My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a high-concept studio pitch trying to pass itself off as an actual movie.

November 7, 2012 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine Australasia
Empire Magazine Australasia

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.

April 22, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

An inspired, overlooked twist on typical romantic comedies.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com

Energetic romantic comedy with sexual references.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

A breezy timepass entertainment with a little hint of bite.

August 26, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

at heart a deeply misogynistic view of female empowerment.

August 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film
Eye for Film

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.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

It teetered on the edge of totally sucking, but in the end, it actually pulled everything off.

January 25, 2007 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures
7M Pictures

My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a high concept comedy which cleverly blends your typical rom-com with your typical comic-com.

December 6, 2006
Buzzine Magazine

Even if it falls slightly short of super, Ex-Girlfriend is a film that's well worth having around.

September 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Christianity Today | Comment (1)
Christianity Today

A one joke film that runs its comedic course in about thirty minutes.

August 30, 2006 Full Review
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Audience Reviews for My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Welll this certanly stinks. It's just not okay. Nothing bad agains Luke or Uma. They're both allright. But who can perform under these conditions?
November 29, 2011
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Inexplicably, I love this movie.
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