My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Director : Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Junior, Evolution)
Synopsis : This isn’t a movie about superhero with superpower but it’s about a superhero with a super-feeling. Human’s super feelings. Partly, she went around to save people and partly, she works as a curator in a gallery.
Jenny James (Uma Thurman) is like another girl on the street that you can find anywhere. But what sets her apart is that she has a secret identity. She’s G-Girl. A superhero, which falls in love with a mere mortal. But ended up
Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) is a person with the worst pick-up line. How ironic! But he still managed to go on a dinner date with Jenny. Why? He managed to save the damsel in distress. Well, not really with distress. It might be a damsel with superpower.
If you are thinking that you can see some superpower by G-Girl or some ass-kicking action sequence, then you’re drop dead wrong. This film doesn’t really tell G-Girl but it is more of a compelling drama of how bad a superhero can be when she is in love with a normal mortal and then breaks up with him.
Jenny is over-protective, over-jealous, over-secured about her boyfriend. Maybe she is insecure about having a normal being as a boyfriend. And Matt tried very hard to please her girlfriend, knowing that Jenny is G-Girl.
What Matt didn’t realize is that he is actually in love with his colleague, Hannah (Anna Faris).I guess this is just so typical. You don’t know that you are in love with someone right in front of you until the third persons enter into the picture.
As what they say, it’s pay back time. G-Girl gave Matt a hard time after breaking up. After being jilted by Matt, she keeps stalking him frequently and she gave Matt a bloody hard time. But G-Girl herself is haunted by a villain from her past. Her ex-boyfriend.
There ain’t nothing much to say about this movie. I don’t find the movie very entertaining The storyline is simple. No CGI special effects, no superhero-ass-kicking-with superpower. It’s a light movie. It’s not that flawless but it’s not that brilliant. Nothing special. Uma Thurman is just Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson is just okay. Same goes to the supporting act.
I guess it’s not Ivan Reitman’s best work. I prefer Ghostbusters and Junior compared to this movie.
For that, I give it ** / *****
This movie only proves one thing! Hell hath no fury like a women’s scorn.
