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My Super Ex-Girlfriend
EMAILPRINTTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 36 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Written by: Don Payne
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 21, 2006
DVD: December 19, 2006
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, crude humor, language and brief nudity
Starring Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Wanda Sykes, and Rainn Wilson
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you unwittingly dump a super hero.
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What The Critics Said
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USA Today Scott Bowles
My Super Ex-Girlfriend manages to do what the recent crop of crime fighters haven't: show us how much fun it might be to fly, or have super strength, or look buff in spandex.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Staff (Not credited)
Funnier than "Nacho Libre," more fashionable than "The Devil Wears Prada," able to deliver more revengeful thrills than "X-Men: The Last Stand" in a single scene, My Super Ex-Girlfriend may sound like a midsummer mash of "The Break-Up" and "Superman," but it's more clever and emotionally resonant than that.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Casting helps the film work. Uma Thurman is among the few actresses who can pull off this role: the hot, buff, slightly deranged superhero and her dowdy, un-sexy alter-ego.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
The movie doesn't purport to have her stand for all women, just the crazy ones, and as such, G-Girl is pure, soul-cleansing id catharsis.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
A one-joke movie if ever there was, but the joke happens to be a good one -- a Tracy-and-Hepburn-style battle of the sexes in which Kate can fly and blast through walls -- and director Ivan Reitman (who made Ghostbusters) feels at home with the mix of screwball and supernatural.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The two starring performances are spot on. Wilson gets the tone that screenwriter Don Payne so expertly evokes: It's a weird sort of self-aware despicability...Thurman is beautiful, fearless and perfectly believable as a superhero.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
This sophomoric mix of the supernatural and screwball from Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) is diverting, cheesy fun, with Thurman's G-Girl as a droll combination of Superwoman and Uber Shrew.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
Super Ex does have a certain low-key, adult-contemporary charm. It's almost entirely because of Luke Wilson.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
If the script for this comic spin on Fatal Attraction were only a tenth as hot as Uma Thurman, director Ivan Reitman might have had something here.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Confusing gender issues like the ones dredged up in Ex-Girlfriend call to mind another Reitman dud, the pregnant-Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy "Junior," and the sophistication level has only slightly improved since then.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
The shaky comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend must have been a dream to pitch: "Fatal Attraction" meets "Wonder Woman," but funny.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
My Super Ex-Girlfriend offers us a heroine with phenomenal bone structure and a story with hardly any at all.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Overall, the film's sheer mediocrity prevents Thurman from flying to its rescue.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
The movie is unable to achieve lift-off and transcend the formulaic stuff coming out of Hollywood, despite the perfect casting of Uma Thurman.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Runs out of fresh ideas about how to make its heroine look nuts.
Read Full Review >Premiere Ethan Alter
My Super Ex-Girlfriend was written by longtime "Simpsons" scribe Don Payne, but you wouldn't know that based on the finished film, which lacks the intelligence and sly wit that has kept Homer and the gang on the air for all these years.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A lot of superwimp gags executed by Luke Wilson grow out of this premise, as do some tacky 50s-style special effects. The movie's too slapdash to keep its characters consistent, but this has its moments.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Most of the gags recycle the same tired old romantic comedy schtick, with special effects.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Uma Thurman, a female superhero with emotional problems and dating issues, doesn't so much fight the forces of evil as battle the wit-starved movie's torpor -- indeed, her perf suggests what the entire film might have been.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It's not terrible, but it's mediocre and not much more than a string of cheesy sex gags.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Wilson does his callow good-guy routine (if you close your eyes you'd swear he was his brother, Owen) and Thurman looks as if she'd rather be stalking prey in "Kill Bill."
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's "Bewitched" meets "Fatal Attraction," with one funny bedroom scene, but it was a miscalculation to make Thurman the antagonist.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Uma Thurman plays a flying hero who might as well be called Not Funny Woman.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Toddy Burton
The conventional plot and absence of character dimension will most likely get the better of even the biggest Uma fans.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
You'd have to go back to "My Stepmother Is an Alien" to find a male fantasy/nightmare this off-putting.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.3 (out of 10) based on 36 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Christopher W. gave it a3:
Promising premise is consistently undermined by its presentation. This should have been a lot more fun and certainly much funnier. Instead it plays more like 'Fatal Attraction,' instead of the romantic comedy I'm sure was intended. Thurman's reckless overbearing character quickly grows insufferable and oppressive. The film grows increasingly more preposterous and silly as it goes along, all the while unraveling like a dropped ball of yarn. Big disappointment!
Reid F. gave it a3:
This was supposed to be a comedy, but it just wasn't funny. In fact, it wasn't much of anything.
Robert xxxx gave it a5:
Well cast, with some genuinely fresh moments in what could have been a disaster.
Jordan G. gave it a0:
No plot, No laughs, Very bad acting, Very annoying sisters to begin with. The movie should have never been released. In the theatre I was in no one laughed throughout the entire movie and there was a line at the refunds table. Need I say more?
John C. gave it a9:
This is one of those movies where the critcs start reveiewing each other's reviews and lose sight of what is actually in the movie. This is by far the funniest movie all summer, with four excellent perfomances. Even more importantly, the movie has a consistent aesthetic that enables it to create its own world - necessary for anything involving superheroes. I find it hard to believe that there's anyone out there that didn't have a good time watching this movie. I'm afraid this is a rare movie that is crippled by having a premise that is too obviously good. This film executes on the premise perfectly. Go see it if you can so the studios will know that audiences will pay to see elaborate comedy.
Mark Barfoot gave it a4:
This film is as good as superman returns!!!! shame that film was awful too.
Mark B. gave it an8:
Moviegoers who attend or rent LOTS of films--especially ones where the commercials or trailers are the best thing about them--are all too used to hearing, reading or uttering phrases like "This was a really interesting/ original/ cute idea, but the way they pulled it off was totally disappointing/ unimaginative/ bad". My Super Ex-Girlfriend is NOT one of those movies. The tale of a hapless Everyman (Luke Wilson) who unwisely dates superheroine G-Girl (Uma Thurman), then even more unwisely dumps her only to find that she's as much Alex Forrest as Diana Prince, this completely delightful, thoroughly refereshing coctail is not only the terrific, souffle-light antidote we all needed to this summer's curious run of dismal Rotten Relationship movies (Failure to Launch, The Breakup, Click) but it's also a smarter, more insightful Superheroes Need Love Too flick than that really expensive one out there about the guy who got Lois Lane pregnant. After last year's abysmal romcom Prime, Thurman has found a role (TWO roles, actually) that she sinks her teeth into with flawless timing and great energy: as both G-Girl and her secret identity, mousy-but-smoldering Jenny Johnson, she proves that allowing five acting nominations in comedy as well as drama is the one area where the Golden Globes do it smarter than the Oscars: Thurman is absolutely deserving of nominations for both awards. And talk about sibling rivalry: while brother Owen is currently smelling up the screen in his latest been-there-done-that incarnation as a slacker dude in Me, You & DePoo, Luke Wilson gives an utterly charming, classic leading man performance that easily calls up memories of 1930s James Stewart and 1950s Jack Lemmon. Comic character actress Anna faris (the Scary Movie movies, Just Friends) gets to play it relatively straight and sympathetic as the co-employee that Wilson's really got his eye and heart on--and she's nothing short of absolutely adorable, particularly in the film's last 1
