My Super Ex-Girlfriend
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5.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 51 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 51
  3. Negative: 18 out of 51

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  1. Robertxxxx
    Oct 9, 2006
    5
    Well cast, with some genuinely fresh moments in what could have been a disaster.
  2. GerrickC.
    Aug 2, 2006
    5
    Yeah, okay, the premise is nice, but unfortunately this movie didn't surpass the new Superman movie. You got Uma Thurman on this one, but it still can't compete with the Man of Steel.
  3. ChristopherW.
    May 9, 2007
    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!… Expand
  4. JohnC.
    Sep 1, 2006
    9
    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.… Expand
  5. MarkBarfoot
    Aug 11, 2006
    4
    This film is as good as superman returns!!!! shame that film was awful too.
  6. MarkB.
    Aug 7, 2006
    8
    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… Expand
  7. ReidF.
    Feb 2, 2007
    3
    This was supposed to be a comedy, but it just wasn't funny. In fact, it wasn't much of anything.
  8. Trev29
    Sep 2, 2012
    7
    If it weren't for Uma this might have been a horrible movie, but she was just great. In fact, the entire cast was great. The movie was just kind of decent. Nothing great, but still good enough to enjoy.

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Metascore
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
  1. 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.
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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.
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