My Super Ex-Girlfriend
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Movie Reviews of My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Movie Review: My Super Ex-Girlfriend... Surprisingly funny coming from Reitman
Summary: 4 Stars
My Super Ex-Girlfriend: 7 out of 10: Director Ivan Reitman hasn't had a great film since Ghostbusters. In fact for such a big name in Hollywood he has had only two great films (Ghostbusters and Stripes both over twenty years ago), one decent film (Dave), some quite mediocre films (Legal Eagle, Six Days Seven Nights, Junior, Kindergarten Cop, and Evolution) and some very serious flops(Fathers Day, Ghostbusters 2).
So needless to say with that track record I expected a high concept comedy such as My Super Ex-Girlfriend to be mediocre at best. Instead it hung in tight at decent.
The film had two personal aces in its corner with me. I like Uma Thurman and I just saw Superman Returns.
The fact I had recently sat through two and a half hours of Superman stalking Lois Lane admittedly greatly added to the humor of this film. The main character actually seems to enjoy her super powers and this movie ironically is one of the more realistic demonstrations of how a mortal given superpowers would act. (Compare to the whining Jessica Alba lays on in Fantastic Four or the angst the X-men feel about not fitting in. If I could fly and shoot fireballs I assure you I would fit in. Hell I would be the center of bloody attention.)
Some superheroes are designed to be dour types (Batman and the Punisher come to mind) but most come across like whining athletes. Thurman is clearly enjoying herself. Uma Thurman fits the role to a tee. In fact all the actors do a great job with special kudos to Anna Faris as the other woman.
Sure some of the gags are juvenile and the movie really could have used an R-rating but when I get to see a super heroine throw a great white shark into the apartment of her rival I feel nothing but pure joy.
It certainly beats some male model in a superman cape moping out side of Lois's house spying with his x-ray vision pretending to be Jesus.
Movie Review: Uma Thurman Is My Super Ex-Girlfiend: A Bit Slack, But Funny and Sexy
Summary: 4 Stars
The only moral of "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" is, once you start dating with a Supergirl, you cannot leave her without making your life very miserable. No breaking-up is possible for she will return to you, and literally wreck your life by doing whatever she can do, like throwing a live shark into your new girlfriend's room. The premise of Ivan Reitman's new comedy "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" is so silly (with so much sexual nuance) that it may either hugely entertain you or utterly irritates you.
I happened to love this film because of its silliness and its cast including gorgeous Uma Thurman as the titular "Super Ex-Girlfriend," usually referred to as "G-Girl" in this film. Luke Wilson plays a nice, slightly timid businessman Matt, whose new girlfriend is the Supergirl. At first he thinks he is the luckiest guy in the world. Later he learns that G-Girl has another side of her characters, very manipulative and mentally unstable.
The main cast of Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson deliver the goods, giving us some hilarious moments with credible characters. Supports include Anna Faris as Hannah, Matt's co-worker, an underwritten character who could be much more interesting with Ms. Faris's considerable comic talent, and always reliable Eddie Izzard as Professor Bedlum, nerdy Super-Villain, who is funny to see with his deadpan humor.
The film is given a clever twist on the Superhero/heroin theme, but probably other directors might have exploited the theme more and parodied the romantic comedy or super heroine genre thoroughly. You might spot some scenes where you would feel "This should be funnier with a different approach" and perhaps you're right. This might not be the best comedy of the year, but it is funny all the same, and Uma Thurman's fantastic performance as Super Ex-Girlfriend should not be missed.
Movie Review: Fun But Could have Been So Much More
Summary: 4 Stars
I really enjoy Uma Thurman in pretty much every movie I've seen her in. I had very high hopes for My Super Ex-Girlfriend, as I also enjoy romantic comedies. There was a huge amount of potential here, but unfortunately it didn't quite live up to its promise.
Luke Wilson is a lonely bachelor who is prodded into dating a quiet librarian type, played by Uma. It takes the first half of the movie for them to get around to dating, and for him to find out that she's really G-Girl, the local super hero. You're almost at the point of wondering why they're calling this his Ex-Girlfriend, it takes them so long to get to the break-up stage.
Once he does break up with her, because he really wants to date his co-worker instead, super-girl goes berzerk. She is insanely jealous and throws his car into orbit, makes holes in his ceiling, roasts his pet fish, brands his forehead, and much more.
I think I would have connected with the characters much more if they made them more believable, even in a cartooney world. Uma isn't just insane, she is completely out of her mind. Luke's friend is a real jerk in many situations. We did laugh at some lines, but many of the situations were incredibly obviously telegraphed, which took away from the enjoyment of them. I really appreciated the "Uma as Superman / Luke as Lois Lane" reversals they did, but it took a lot of the fun out of it for me to have the mirror of "strong, honorable superman" go up against "insane, selfish, whiny superwoman". The whole situation could have been *great* and amazingly funny, especially with Uma's talents. It's a shame it wasn't brought up to that level.
Fun for one watching, but not one I keep on my shelves.
Movie Review: The power of super-cattiness
Summary: 4 Stars
Faster than a speeding run in her panythose, more powerful than a loaf of makeup, able to leap tall buildings in her sling-back heels. It's G-Girl super-hero with, as near as I can tell, an endorsement contract with Victoria's Secret. Mild-mannered art history major by day --
-- it's been a long time since she's been on a date. In fact, that whole super-thing hit her suddenly in high school, sort of like all the worst of puberty compressed into one afternoon. It left her just a bit, well, needy. Super-needy, so the first guy that takes her out to dinner finds her clinging like a bad case of the barnacles. When this poor un-super slob tries to scrape her off, all that stuff about "a woman scorned" gets rewritten with "a super-woman scorned." In absolute desperation, he's driven into an unholy alliance with the arch-villain Professor Bedlam, and his evil plan to drain her of her powers with ... Well, with something, and calling it Kryptonite would be a trademark infringement.
But, just as Superman always got over his case of the Kryptonite(TM), G-Girl gets all better, too. And, since this is your basic, everyday kind of light, romantic, super-hero-girl comedy, everyone gets a nice smoochy ending. Then, when G-Girl goes off to save the next pack of ninnies who need saving, Mr. Super is left holding her purse.
If you are threatened by the evil shadow of a boring evening, My Super Ex-Girlfriend will bring it to justice. Thurman gets to play a borderline-psycho birch (sp?) and walks away with the movie. Everything else is forgettable, but fun anyway.
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Movie Review: Funny, G-girl is fabulous, but the ending is trite
Summary: 4 Stars
An excellent dual-role for Uma Thurman, as she plays shy art studio worker Jenny Johnson and her alter-ego super hero G-girl. Jenny/G-girl is nuerotic and lonely, so when Matt (Luke Wilson) tries to do something nice and heroic for her, she literally goes crazy for him. Matt tries to break it off with his super girlfriend, and that's when everything starts flying.
Rainn Wilson is great as Vaughn, Matt's quick/foul mouthed womanizing friend. Great interaction between Matt and Vaughn.
The sex scenes are hilarious (PG-13 rating), as are the scenes where G-girl/Jenny tries to have a normal life, especially when Matt knows who she really is (should she interrupt a date to save the city and leave Matt with another woman at the table? decisions, decisions!).
G-girl's arch nemesis Professor Bedlam (aka Barry) has a history with G-girl from high school. I would have liked more about what Bedlam had done that made him a villan, that would have made his character more believable and helped the ending.
My only complaint was that the ending was somewhat trivialized and forced. But this is a very funny and enjoyable movie, watched and enjoyed by my wife, myself and our teenage son.