My Super Ex-Girlfriend

My Super Ex-Girlfriend
by Ivan Reitman

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Actor: Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Luke Wilson, Rainn Wilson, Uma Thurman
Director: 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

DVD Reviews of My Super Ex-Girlfriend

DVD 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.

DVD Review: i wish g-girl that thrown a shark AT ME
Summary: 1 Stars

Sadly enough, it was largely unfunny and uninteresting. I love Uma Thurman and I love Luke Wilson, but apparently they are two great tastes that do not taste great together. I am curious as to what it was about the script that attracted them.

Uma Thurman plays Jenny Johnson, a single, lonely artist, and her alter ego -- the super hero G-Girl. Jenny begins dating Matt (Luke Wilson), revealing her alter ego over the course of their relationship, and after her insane, neurotic, girl-jealousy prods him to break up with her, she uses her super powers to make him really, really regret dumping her. There was nothing at all interesting about either character.

Luke Wilson's Matt was stereotypical Luke Wilson. An adorable, average sort of guy totally lacking the gentle likability of Legally Blonde's Emmett or the naughty charm of The Family Stone's Ben. Thurman's G-Girl/Jenny was uncharmingly neurotic. She was that girl who wants to be in a relationship, but who really doesn't know how until she meets the guy who shows her how much fun and how easy it is. Only in those kinds of movies they hit a snag and get back together and live happily ever after, she after having been rescued by this pseudo knight in shining armor. In My Super Ex-Girlfriend, the girl turns out to be a crazy super hero with a taste for vengeance.

I didn't like that G-Girl was really such a bad guy. Sure she does good deeds and saves lives and all that, but she's incredibly petty. I know that, in part, that's the point -- she's an average person who just happens to have super powers (unlike the ideal caricatured super hero who fights for truth, justice and the American way) -- but what they seem to have done is exchange one caricature (superhero a la Superman) for another (petty, needy and vindictive female).

Eddie Izzard takes a turn as the super villain, only he's in love with G-Girl and plagues her because of some mishmashed desire for her and an old high school inspired grudge against her for ignoring him once she became a super hero. Eddie Izzard is adorable no matter what, and he plays Professor Bedlam with tongue suitably planted in cheek, but even he wasn't enough to save this film.

The super girl smackdown at the end was boring and trite. I don't find girls fighting over guys even remotely interesting, the fact that they had super powers didn't improve the situation at all.

So, yeah, definitely a big fat no.

DVD Review: A Battle of the sexes where one of them can fly
Summary: 3 Stars

This movie had a funny premise- imagine if your emotionally disturbed, paranoid, violent, neurotic basket-case of an ex-girlfriend also has super powers- and I think it was pulled off tolerably well. Mind you, a lot of it was definitely uncreative assembly-line humor so typical of Hollywood comedy, but I actually laughed out loud at some of the lines, as well as at the sheer unabashed silliness of the movie. I mean, that part where Uma Thurman tried to kill Luke Wilson and his new girlfriend by throwing a live_Great White Shark_through the window of a high rise apartment was just so insanely off the wall, surreal, idiotic and unexpected, I just had to laugh in utter amazement at the writers' obvious derangement. It's a little blue for a cartoonish PG-13 movie, so I wouldn't bring it home for the kids, but for adults it has some funny insights into relationships and some laughs. It's no comedy classic, but fair entertainment for a boring night.

DVD Review: Don't let 3 stars fool you!
Summary: 3 Stars

I loved this movie. It was exactly what i expected. I've seen movies like this in the past that really took themselves too seriously. This movie gets everything right. It's all about this guy who finds out his unbalanced girlfriend has superpowers. Of course, she uses them to ruin his life. This movie works mostly because of the cast. Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson play wonderfully off each other. They even threw in Wanda Sykes to up the comedic value. This movie never gets old, I no because i keep watching it!

DVD Review: The other side of stalking
Summary: 4 Stars

Certainly not the worst Bizarro Superman type story that I've heard of.
The problem is that with great powers doesn't always come a great personality. OJ Simpson and Alexander the Great are two good male examples.
Peter Milk-toast is in trouble with super-woman, because he finally realized
he loved his office best friend. ( he's very lucky in that she returns the favor). The ending is altogether strange with animated comedy credits following.
It is nice that Uma Thurman doesn't slice and dice anybody in this one!
But when somebody made a crack about her big feet, he regretted it!

Description 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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