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My Super Ex-Girlfriend
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50 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 28
  3. Negative: 4 out of 28
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  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Scott Bowles
    88
    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.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    75
    As cool a summer lark as you'll find.
  3. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    75
    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.
  4. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    75
    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.
  5. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    70
    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.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    70
    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.
  7. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    70
    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.
  8. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    63
    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.
  9. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    58
    Super Ex does have a certain low-key, adult-contemporary charm. It's almost entirely because of Luke Wilson.
  10. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    50
    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.
  11. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    50
    Overall, the film's sheer mediocrity prevents Thurman from flying to its rescue.
  12. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    50
    The movie is unable to achieve lift-off and transcend the formulaic stuff coming out of Hollywood, despite the perfect casting of Uma Thurman.
  13. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Most of the gags recycle the same tired old romantic comedy schtick, with special effects.
  14. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    Runs out of fresh ideas about how to make its heroine look nuts.
  15. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Ethan Alter
    50
    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.
  16. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    50
    My Super Ex-Girlfriend offers us a heroine with phenomenal bone structure and a story with hardly any at all.
  17. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    50
    The shaky comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend must have been a dream to pitch: "Fatal Attraction" meets "Wonder Woman," but funny.
  18. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    50
    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.
  19. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    50
    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.
  20. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    50
    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.
  21. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    42
    It's "Bewitched" meets "Fatal Attraction," with one funny bedroom scene, but it was a miscalculation to make Thurman the antagonist.
  22. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    42
    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."
  23. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    42
    It's not terrible, but it's mediocre and not much more than a string of cheesy sex gags.
  24. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    40
    Sour, joyless affair.
  25. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    38
    Uma Thurman plays a flying hero who might as well be called Not Funny Woman.
  26. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Toddy Burton
    30
    The conventional plot and absence of character dimension will most likely get the better of even the biggest Uma fans.
  27. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    25
    You'd have to go back to "My Stepmother Is an Alien" to find a male fantasy/nightmare this off-putting.
  28. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Felix Vasques Jr.
    20
    Neither fun nor funny.
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4.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 46 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. Robertxxxx
    5
    Well cast, with some genuinely fresh moments in what could have been a disaster.
  2. ChristopherW.
    3
    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!… Full Review »
  3. ReidF.
    3
    This was supposed to be a comedy, but it just wasn't funny. In fact, it wasn't much of anything.
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