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DVD My Super Ex-Girlfriend
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
Despite a few funny moments and unexpected ending not very good
Despite Uma Thurman, who usually manages to enliven even a weak film, this is a disappointing film with an interesting premise. Uma plays G-Girl, a super hero who emotionally is needy, clingy, jealous, and petty. Now, the idea of an emotionally stunted super hero is a great one, but unfortunately the execution is simply not very good. There are some good individual moments to go along with some amazing bad ones -- for instance, a rather dumb joke involving moving a bed several feet constantly during sex -- but in the end the bad decidedly outweighs the bad. The bad, in fad, outweighs the good by a considerable margin.
Part of the problem is that the movie does very little work in trying to establish Jenny Johnson, G-Girl's alter ego, as an interesting character before having her and Luke Wilson's Matt Saunders in a relationship. Yes, she is physically beautiful, but so obviously neurotic that no guy could or at least should find her attractive. The film doesn't even do a very good job of establishing Matt as a compelling character. And if you are among those who find Rainn Wilson's Dwight Schrute an irritating character on THE OFFICE, his role as Matt's buddy won't count as one of the film's attractions. To top things off, the CGI is simply terrible. There aren't many scenes where G-Girl looks very convincing in action. Anyone doubting me should watch SUPERMAN RETURNS and MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND back to back, like I did (an unplanned super double-bill). The weakest scene may have been one where G-Girl throws a shark through a window at Matt and his girl. Sharks, of course, out of water for any length of time, are utterly immobile. Yet this one manages to fling itself around the apartment as if it were a land mammal.
Still, the film isn't quite a bad as this could make it sound. There are some good moments, though not enough of them. Luke Wilson is always likable, even in a weaker film like this. And though most of the supporting cast is spectacularly unimpressive, Anna Faris, best known for her work in the SCARY MOVIE franchise, was sufficiently cute and adorable. There were some moments when I really wanted to like the movie more than it justified, but in the end the few good things were simply overwhelmed by the bad. Even the scenes in which G-Girl wants to get her revenge on Matt were not terribly good.
I wouldn't say that seeing this would represent a major mistake in life, but I do think that just about anyone in the mood for a good comedy can do a lot better than this.
Slapstick superhero comedy for adults - very funny
This superhero comedy does for dating and breaking-up what "The Incredibles" did for family life.
In other words, it gets a lot of laughs from the incongruity of imagining how the difficulties which come with ordinary human life would be even worse if one or more of the participants has superhuman powers. However, this film is for adults rather than kids. A few scenes were a bit embarrassing or silly but most of the time I was falling about laughing.
At the start of the film Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) is a frustrated nerd looking for romance: ironically there is a colleage, Hannah (played by Anna Faris) in his office who he really likes and who is equally fond of him, but it would never occur to him to do anything about it because she already has a boyfriend.
Then he meets and starts to date Jenny (Uma Thurman) - who appears from the outside to be a quiet mouselike art curator. But what the viewer knows, and Matt initially doesn't, is that Jenny is really "G-girl" - a superhero who is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, etc, etc.
Being a superhero has had dire effects on Jenny's love life. The film manages a difficult balance extremely well in that you can both sympathise with Jenny and understand why she is the way she is, but also understand why Matt soon begins to find her impossible to cope with. But when he breaks up with her, she vows revenge - and becomes the super ex from hell. By comparison with G-Girl's idea of revenge, putting paint stripper on a guy's car or cutting up his shirts is nothing.
Uma Thurman hasn't done many comic roles, but if this film is anything to go by, perhaps she should do a few more. Luke Wilson does a good job as the well-meaning but nerdish and very ordinary central character. Other good performances include Eddie Izzard who is superb as supervillain "Professor Bedlam" who is G-girl's arch enemy, and Anna Faris, who is excellent as the cute and innocent girl at Matt's office. The most disappointing part of the film is Wanda Sykes who plays Matt's boss. She has the role of being the worst possible person for all the most terribly embarrassing things to happen in front of (so of course they do). Most comedies have such a character, usually a senior manager, potential important customer, or a parent or grandparent of the heroine, but it isn't usually considered necessary to make that person quite as obnoxious as this character was: to such an extent that at one or two points when I should have been laughing I was getting annoyed with Matt's boss.
But overall I can recommend this film and am glad I bought it.
Really bad B-Movie
Awful movie, boring, no funny jokes, bad acting,...
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