My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Name: My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Released: July 21, 2006
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 50
Cast: Anna Faris, Luke Wilson, Uma Thurman

2006

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 21, 2006 | PG-13

Starring: Anna Faris, Luke Wilson, Uma Thurman

Summary: Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you unwittingly dump a super hero.

Director: Ivan Reitman

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 95 min

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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

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

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

Connie Ogle

Overall, the film's sheer mediocrity prevents Thurman from flying to its rescue. Read full review

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

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

Felix Vasques Jr.

Neither fun nor funny. Read full review

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JohnC.

Sep 1, 2006

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 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

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MarkB.

Aug 7, 2006

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 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

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juliankennedy23

Oct 27, 2014

My Super Ex-Girlfriend: 7 out of 10: Director Ivan Reitman hasn't had a great film since Ghostbusters. In fact for such a big name in Hollywood he has had only two great films (Ghostbusters and Stripes both over twenty years ago), one decent film (Dave), some quite mediocre films (LegalMy Super Ex-Girlfriend: 7 out of 10: Director Ivan Reitman hasn't had a great film since Ghostbusters. In fact for such a big name in Hollywood he has had only two great films (Ghostbusters and Stripes both over twenty years ago), one decent film (Dave), some quite mediocre films (Legal Eagle, Six Days Seven Nights, Junior, Kindergarten Cop, and Evolution) and some very serious flops(Fathers Day, Ghostbusters 2).

So needless to say with that track record I expected a high concept comedy such as My Super Ex-Girlfriend to be mediocre at best. Instead it hung in tight at decent.

The film had two personal aces in its corner with me. I like Uma Thurman and I just saw Superman Returns.

The fact I had recently sat through two and a half hours of Superman stalking Lois Lane admittedly greatly added to the humor of this film. The main character actually seems to enjoy her super powers and this movie ironically is one of the more realistic demonstrations of how a mortal given superpowers would act. (Compare to the whining Jessica Alba lays on in Fantastic Four or the angst the X-men feel about not fitting in. If I could fly and shoot fireballs I assure you I would fit in. Hell I would be the center of bloody attention.)

Some superheroes are designed to be dour types (Batman and the Punisher come to mind) but most come across like whining athletes. Thurman is clearly enjoying herself. Uma Thurman fits the role to a tee. In fact all the actors do a great job with special kudos to Anna Faris as the other woman.

Sure some of the gags are juvenile and the movie really could have used an R-rating but when I get to see a super heroine throw a great white shark into the apartment of her rival I feel nothing but pure joy.

It certainly beats some male model in a superman cape moping out side of Lois's house spying with his x-ray vision pretending to be Jesus.… Expand

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GerrickC.

Aug 2, 2006

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.

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MarkBarfoot

Aug 11, 2006

This film is as good as superman returns!!!! shame that film was awful too.

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ReidF.

Feb 2, 2007

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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DawdlingPoet

Nov 28, 2021

There are some pretty funny moments during the movie but they don't last too long and I think what really lets it down is the fact that it seemed very predictable. It just seemed a bit TOO daft to me and the ending was a little cheesy too, perhaps. I thought that the movie was alright butThere are some pretty funny moments during the movie but they don't last too long and I think what really lets it down is the fact that it seemed very predictable. It just seemed a bit TOO daft to me and the ending was a little cheesy too, perhaps. I thought that the movie was alright but they maybe tried a bit too hard to make a movie based on a rather short story. I think it may have worked better if, instead of making it clear from the movie title that she gets dumped, instead that came as a surprise and wasn't obvious, then it might have been funnier as people wouldn't expect to see what happened. As it is, it seemed a bit too obvious I suppose. There definately are some funny moments but their a bit too fleeting and I felt as if the movie almost took itself too seriously. Knowing that this movie is an Ivan Reitman movie, I suppose I felt I expected something a bit more, substantial I suppose, or at least less mediocre.

However, one other character, other than Eddie's, that I quite liked, was Hannah Lewis, a workmate of Matts that G-Girl got jealous towards Matt about, thinking that he was also seeing her behind her back (which he wasn't, at the time). Hannah is played by Anna Faris, who I like as an actress from the Scary Movie movies, she has good facial expressions, if you know what I mean. Her and Eddie as professor Bedlam (or Barry as his real name is, who, as it turns out, is actually G-Girls old ex school friend) make it a slightly more interesting movie as their characters I thought were pretty good. Luke is, as always, a good actor and does fine in this movie, though I thought that there wasn't a great deal particularly to like about his character, I suppose we're supposed to feel sorry for him as he seems to be quite a shy guy that doesn't really know how to do handle relationships or certainly get out of them well. The way he dumps her though, I say he got what he deserved *hah* I guess maybe im being a bit unfair on this movie, it is certainly entertaining enough to keep teens (which I guess its mainly targeted at/for) quiet for the hour and a half it lasts but its just nothing all THAT great really, I felt that we watch the movie already knowing too much of the story and that kind of spoils it in a sense. It certainly isn't the kind of movie that I would want to watch many times, if again at all really, so I'd recommend you either rent this or get it on pay per view but don't bother buying it.… Expand

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