My Super Ex-Girlfriend
by Ivan Reitman
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Actor: Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Luke Wilson, Rainn Wilson, Uma ThurmanDirector: Ivan Reitman
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Movie Review: So I Married G-Girl
Summary: 4 Stars
This is low-concept but it works on it's meager intentions to merely entertain. This came out during the dog days of summer when you park your brain cells and the makers of the film were wise to realize this. In other words it's stoopid(good) as opposed to stupid(bad). The talented cast is in on the gag and run with it. A slumming Uma Thurman is terrific as the super-heroine whose alter ego is neurotic, manipulative and controlling. A high point is the put upon look on Uma's face when she's compelled to interrupt her lunch to intercept a missile about to destroy the city. Luke Wilson, an adequate actor at best, suffices as the everyman who get's to live every manchild's fantasy(so he thinks). Eddie Izzard is okay as the perfunctory villain but when is Hollywood going to better utilize his prodigious talents? I saw him 10 years ago on the London stage playing Lenny Bruce and he was nothing short of brilliant. Ditto, for Anna Faris who is just as much brains as beauty and given a marginal chance to shine here. Not great but has cult potential.
Summary of My Super Ex-Girlfriend
SUPERstars Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson deliver unstoppable fun in this hilarious hit comedy directed by Ivan Reitman (Stripes, Meatballs).Matt Saunders (Wilson) thinks he's found the perfect girlfriend in Jenny Johnson (Thurman), who just happens to be smart, sexy...and a superhero. But when Jenny turns out to be a needy, neurotic mess, Matt wants to call it quits. Jenny is crushed by the news and will stop at nothing to exact sweet revenge.
It's an outrageous super-comedy that proves breaking up can be hard to do?-and downright dangerous!
Girl power (or if you prefer, woman power) gets a goofy boost in My Super Ex-Girlfriend, a breezy rom-com that's as fun as it is forgettable. As devised by former Simpsons writer Don Payne and directed by comedy veteran Ivan (Ghostbusters) Reitman, the premise is certainly promising, and much of that promise is gamely fulfilled. When a New York building designer named Matt (Luke Wilson) discovers that his new girlfriend Jenny (Uma Thurman) is actually a crime-fighting, disaster-solving superhero named G-Girl who's also needy, neurotic, and unpredictably volatile, he realizes he's got to dump her as politely as possible or face the potentially deadly consequences. Since he's really in love with a cute colleague (Anna Faris), and since the arch-villain Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard) has been in love with G-Girl since they were outcast pals in high school, you can easily figure out where the comedy is going. But getting there is surprisingly enjoyable, given the rather flat execution of a pretty good idea. The shark-tossing scene is a highlight, and other memorable scenes compensate for Reitman's embrace of a bitchy female stereotype that's either insulting or truthful, depending on your own romantic experience as the dumper or dumpee. Rainn Wilson (from the American version of TV's The Office) performs the obligatory sidekick duties, and comedian Wanda Sykes is just plain annoying in a shrill and unnecessary role. Silly? You bet. Go in expecting that, and you won't be disappointed. --Jeff Shannon
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