Funnier than Nacho Libre, more fashionable than The Devil Wears Prada, able to deliver more revengeful thrills than X-Men: The Last Stand in a single scene.
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: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content, crude humor, language and brief nudity
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jul 21, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $22,432,518
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
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Reviews for My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Directed by Ivan Reitman with the same loopy amiability he brought to hits like Ghostbusters, Junior and Dave in decades past, it is a solid summer confection with no pretensions.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend dispels any doubt that the philosophy of high concept -- in which a film's entire content can be contained in the title or one brief phase, a la Snakes on a Plane -- is back in vogue.
There are certainly worse ideas out there for movie comedies than My Super Ex-Girlfriend. (The Wayans brothers hit Little Man, for example.) However, there aren't many ideas that are more poorly executed than this one.
Hiding in My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a clever conceit that never gets to reveal itself fully.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend is watchable enough but it's humor for our age of diminished comedic expectations.
The movie is a dude's one-way fantasy tinged with an element of fear. It's unfortunate that the premise falls so comfortably along trite gender lines.
Has director Ivan Reitman always been this unfunny, and we didn't notice because he had Bill Murray covering for him?
Couples waiting for a fresh twist on the romantic comedy have found their date movie in this story of girl-gets-guy, girl-loses-guy, girl-hurls-shark-through-guy's-window.
The real heavy lifting (both literal and figurative) is left to Thurman, who commits to the craziness with gusto.
Eddie Izzard Eddie Izzard Eddie Izzard. If ever a name bore repeating, it is this one. And thank goodness for Eddie Izzard, who brings a whole other dimension to this movie.
even when the jokes don't pay off as well as they should, director Ivan Reitman keeps the film moving along briskly, and Thurman is delightfully wacko.
a bland movie that isn't quite sure if it is a parody of romantic comedies, a parody of superhero movies or a parody of Uma Thurman.
[T]he sort of clever low comedy that the summer has needed. Goofy, silly, and utterly refreshing, it's just the thing to beat the heat.
Plays like it was written by smart people, for people who've seen their share of romantic comedies and superhero flicks.
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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