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My Super Ex-Girlfriend

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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: 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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Everything that might be annoying in a romantic comedy works here.

Full Review Source: Can Magazine | comment Comment
07/20/06
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Can Magazine

About as far from 'super' as a comedy can get.

Full Review Source: Juicy Cerebellum | comment Comment
07/20/06
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

Uma is sexy, Luke is funny, and the script is hilarious...check it out!

Full Review Source: Supercala.com | comment Comment
07/20/06
John Venable
John Venable
Supercala.com

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.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
07/20/06
Scott Bowles
Scott Bowles
USA Today

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?).

Full Review Source: Planet Sick-Boy | comment Comment
07/20/06
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

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.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
07/20/06
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
Reeling Reviews

The movie's too slapdash to keep its characters consistent, but this has its moments.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
07/20/06
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Two lessons learned: Dump a superheroine at your own risk. And animatronic sharks sure have come a long way since the days of Jaws.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
07/20/06
Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
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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.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
07/20/06
E! Online

It's not terrible, but it's mediocre and not much more than a string of cheesy sex gags.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
07/20/06
William Arnold
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
07/20/06
Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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Uma 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.

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07/20/06
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times

Wilson 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.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
07/20/06
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

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.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
07/20/06
Randy Cordova
Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic
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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.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
07/20/06
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

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.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
07/20/06
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Simply goes through the paces more often than it excels at its initial ambitions.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
07/20/06
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

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.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
07/20/06
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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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.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
07/20/06
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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You don't go to movies like My Super Ex-Girlfriend to feel closure, you go to see Uma Thurman throw a shark at Luke Wilson through a plate glass window.

Full Review Source: Contra Costa Times | comment Comment
07/20/06
Mary F. Pols
Mary F. Pols
Contra Costa Times
 
 
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