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Review #192 of 365
Film: My Super Ex-Girlfriend [PG-13] 95 minutes
WIP™ Scale: $12.25
Where Viewed: UA Showcase 8, Las Vegas, NV
When 1st Seen: 22 July 2006
Time: 7:20 p.m.
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With all due apologies to Owen "You, Me and Dupree" Wilson, the best summer's LIVE action comedy stars his brother instead. My Super Ex-Girlfriend is the freshest, most inventive, most 'fantasy-fulfilling', most hilarious fluff film of the USA Summer Film Festival. Director Ivan "Ghostbusters, Twins, and Kindergarten Cop" Reitman blim blams his way back onto the comedy movie stage with this latest Don "The Simpson" Payne script starring Luke "Hoot" Wilson as Matt Saunders, a sort of down-on-his-luck-with-the-opposite-gender design firm project manager who, practically on a dare from his ne'er do well best friend Vaughn (Rainn "NBC's The Office" Wilson), while on the NYC subway asks the semi-mousey yet beautiful beneath the veneer Jenny (Uma-->Oprah→Uma→Oprah→Uma Thurman) Johnson out for coffee. An act of extremely unexpected bravery which surprised even himself, convinces Jenny to take a chance on Matt and go out on what he thinks of as a very old-fashioned first date. Moments into the dinner, however, Jenny rushes off in a panic to the bathroom without much explanation, only to secretly speed into her G-Girl costume and shock waving/vortexing her way into saving an entire burning apartment building full of people. She returns to dinner with a smudge of grime from her heroic adventure still on her face. He notices, and she rushes off to the bathroom again leading him to feel she is neurotic. Further conversation between them leads him to believe she is clingy and controlling, but Vaugh eggs him on in the relationship suggesting this is the best of all worlds for his friend who just hasn't had much action lately. "What could be better than a girl who wants to use you as badly as you want to use her?" is the sentiment he suggests. So, Matt keeps up his end of the relationship as Jenny clearly is falling more in more in love with him to the extent that the secret identity of a real superhero can fal in love with a mere mortal. Well, things heat up between them, just before they explode, and G-Girls arch nemesis, Professor Bedlam (Eddie "The Wild" Izzard) gets in the picture feeling he can use Matt to lure in G-Girl and use his new 'G-Girl kryptonite' to neutralize her powers thus ending their 10+ year feud left over from when she dumped him in high school. After this, things become tricky at Jenny is forced to reveal to Matt that she is G-Girl, and he ultimately realizes the he is not in love with her but, rather, with the woman with whom he works, Hannah (Anna "Scary Movie 4" Farris) Lewis forcing him to need to break up with G-Girl/Jenny. Worse comes to worse when Jenny/G-Girl flips out on him for dumping her and begins to make his life a super-hell.
"…the freshest, most inventive, most 'fantasy-fulfilling', most hilarious fluff film of the USA Summer Film Festival!"
The cast is perfect, the premise of following the love-life of a super possessive female super hero through her courtship process was clever and delightful, and the special effects were thrilling and new. It was fun to see the tables turned upside down as the take-charge G-Girl flies Matt over NYC at night and then formally inducts the self-proclaimed Denver native into the real mile-high club. There was much new ground covered, when due to the huge number of recent super hero films, it would easy to presume we've seen it all before. While it is true that Uma Thurman is my ideal super heroine from her gorgeous blonde locks to her voluptuous curves in her G-Girl costume, I promise this had only a little to do with why I flat out totally enjoyed this film. The main reason, I think, is that so much of the comedy delivered thus far this year has relied on succumbing to the lowest common denominator or major gross out scenes. My Super Ex-Girlfriend delivers using situational comedy that rarely hits below the belt. It is great to see the return of Ivan Reitman who has directed some of the most famous and enduring comedies of the past twenty-five years. All in all, while My Super-Ex is not the best movie of the summer, it is certainly the best live-action adult comedy. Both men and women alike can realize certain fantasies come true as G-Girl makes a mundane project manager the object of her intense affection.
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Projects Starring: Uma Thurman • Luke Wilson • Anna Faris
Rainn Wilson • Eddie Izzard • Wanda Sykes
Projects Directed by: Ivan Reitman
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Sorry Owen, this summer's best LIVE action comedy stars your brother instead. My Super Ex-Girlfriend is the freshest, most inventive, most 'fantasy-fulfilling', most hilarious film of the summer. Director Ivan "Ghostbusters" Reitman blim blams his way back onto the comedy stage with Don Payne's script starring Luke Wilson as Matt Saunders, an unlucky-at-love guy, who on a dare from his ne'er do well best friend asks the semi-mousey-yet-beautiful -beneath-the-veneer Jenny (Uma Thurman) Johnson out for coffee not realizing she's the secret identity for NYC's resident super heroine, G-Girl. A super romance ensues, yet cracks appear causing Matt to dump G-Girl/Jenny who then unleashes her wrath upon him. What follows, is not the best movie of the year, certainly it's the best live-action adult comedy. Both men and women alike can realize certain fantasies as G-Girl turns a mundane project manager into the object of her intense affection.
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