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My Super Ex-Girlfriend
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MPAA 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.
| GENRE(S): | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance |
| WRITTEN BY: | Don Payne |
| DIRECTED BY: | Ivan Reitman |
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DVD: December 19, 2006 Theatrical: July 21, 2006 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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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
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