My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

Undescribable Perfection

Purely Joyful Movie!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is funny. It's a great parody of relationship breakups when one of them is nuts. Get serious folks. It's not casablanca.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006): Dir: Ivan Reitman / Cast: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Rainn Wilson: Here is a comedy that deals with every male's biggest fear. It regards the threat of relationship burnout. Luke Wilson strikes up a date with a woman who turns out to be a superhero. Problem is that breaking up with her can result in fatal consequences. Director Ivan Reitman allows too much to run loose and never really seems to pause to enjoy his craft. He previously made such films as Ghostbusters and Dave. This is not his best effort but at the very least it contains a fetching idea. The ending works despite cheesy special effects that nearly kill the film. Uma Thurman has fun as Jenny / G Girl. She is introduced as normal before letting down her barriers and taking on a relationship. Her revenge tactics upon a breakup are often funny, and she does find love in the most unlikely place. Wilson makes a good foil as he regrets this pursuit when supernatural vengeance is acted towards him. We know he will fix things, and he will be able to date Anna Faris who has the thankless role of co-worker / girlfriend. Eddie Izzard as a villain from Jenny's childhood is a great touch in terms of his background and future. Rainn Wilson makes an appearance to remind us that he is funnier in The Office. Great idea that isn't a super great film, but an entertaining afterthought. Score: 5 ½ / 10

Luke Wilson sells this film.MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND has Ivan (GHOSTBUSTERS) Reitman directing; a solid comedy writer from THE SIMPSONS, Don Payne; Rainn Wilson at the top of his game and Eddie Izzard at the middle (though still attaining the standard of low-bar American comedians); it's Uma Thurman looking hot - as a super heroine AND in her severe, clinical Clark Kentress alter ego skirt. But the film belongs to Luke Wilson.We have to believe that Wilson's average red-blooded American male can hook up with Uma's superchick, break up with her, then take all her high maintenance super revenge in stride. Wilson's every reaction is gold.Architect Matt (Wilson) falls for the bespectacled, secretarial Jenny Johnson (Thurman), who reveals she is the resident New York superhero G-Girl (basically a retread of Superman with tits). After a few weeks, Matt realizes Jenny/G-Girl is clingy, jealous, irrational and emotionally unstable (you know, just a regular chick), so he dumps her in favor of his spunky co-worker, Hannah (Anna Faris), who has been coming onto Matt overtly by monopolizing all his sightlines in tight black dresses with NVP (No Visible Pantyline).And Jenny's revenge is - as one can guess - super nasty.It's a very funny movie - even WITH the double-standard woman-empowering out of control. I think this is the first time on film we are seeing this aspect of a superhero-layperson relationship. Super folk tend to be sensible and honorable enough never to use their super powers against normal folk in revenge (unless the normal folk are villains). But here is vengeance heaven for whining ex-girlfriends; we see a female super hero actually behave like any normal high maintenance byoch.There is shark-throwing and bed-breaking and cars thrown in space, but those aren't the funny bits. The humor flows from the details: Rainn Wilson and Luke Wilson play off each other like a pair of well-oiled bromantics and their chemistry never flags; Izzard is succulent as usual as the suave supervillain, Professor Bedlam; Thurman pulls off her touchy role without making us hate her; and Anna Faris gets to use more than her one facial expression by redirecting our attention to her bodacious booty.Don't watch with your girlfriend. It'll only give her ideas.

Jenny Johnson (Thurman) is sitting on train when Saunders (Wilson) tries to ask her out, in the middle of this a thug nick Johnson bag. Saunders gives chase and gets back the bag. Johnson is so thankful she agrees to go out with him. After dating for a bit Johnson tells Saunders her alter ego G-Girl. After tell him Johnson turns into a crazy jealous bitch so Saunders dumps her, she then makes his life a living hell.I decided i would skyplus this film for when i was bored and has nothing else to do. Looking at the cast i thought a film with Luke Wilson in would have lots of laugh out loud moments, how wrong could i have been. This film seems to just drag on, and made me just as bored if i was watching paint dry.As with most Rom Coms you know which character Matt Saunders would end up with after the 1st 10 minutes of the film. Also it you know that either the pretty girl will either have a fat friend or the man will have a not so good-looking pervert and the latter was true in this. The friend is normally the comic relief but i found the character annoying and not amusing.The only couple of funny moment (minor spoilers) are when G-girl flies so fast round the meeting room at all Saunders clothes come off so he stark naked in an important business meting and when Saunders and his super girlfriend are shagging so hard they make the bed go through the wall, much to his neighbour surprise.The two leads just seemed to be there for the money and really looked liked they couldn't be bothered how the film turned out and it showed, while Anna Faris seemed to play the normal Anna Faris character, the likable but dump-witted blond.The best character in the film was Carla Dunkirk played by Wanda Sykes. She only had two scenes in the film, but she played her feminist, up in the mans face well.I would recommend, that nobody buys or rents this film and only watch this film if you really really have nothing in your life better to do. 3/10Read more of my reviews here: http://cinemadvdreviews.blogspot.com/