“When your ex-girlfriend throws a shark at you…it’s time to get out of town.”
There are simple facts in life. One of them is that Uma Thurman cannot be in a good superhero film. Hot off of Batman and Robin she returns to the superhero scene as the super powered girlfriend to Luke Wilson. This time around though it’s a comedy. Though in all fairness I’m not entirely sure if Batman and Robin wasn’t secretly supposed to be a comedy either.
The movie starts out introducing Luke Wilson as a bumbling loser with a chiseled chin. Needless to say it’s pretty hard to buy Wilson as this geeky insecure character even if he is likable within the film. Anyways his character, Matt, has problems with women until his best friend Dwight, essentially playing Dwight, accidentally hooks him up with the only high flying superhero by the name of G-Girl.
Overall the entire opening is very rushed where the movie has to quickly build this romance to tear in down in the core. Overall it feels like a producer hitting the fast forward button and not bothering with character development (or even jokes) in order to get to the mind numbing things like an angry ex running around with a chain saw.
That is the entire concept of the film. An ex-girlfriend trying to kill her boyfriend who left her for another woman. Not only does the film embody sexist stereotypes, but it’s also pretty mean spirited. Worst of all there is the little fact that it’s a super powered romcom that just isn’t funny. So in the end all it comes off as is another incompetent superhero film. Honestly the concept in the trailer of him NOT knowing she was a superhero until the breakup was a much better idea.
The only slightly humourous character in the entire movie is Rainn Wilson’s character. Sure he is only playing Dwight but thank god for that. If the movie tried for an original character we’d probably end up with another unfunny side character. All the Same Rainn Wilson’s interactions with the other characters is fun and every time he isn't on screen made me want to cry.
The villain in the movie (portrayed by Eddie Izzard) is pretty useless. He doesn’t really contribute much of a threat. He is G-Girl’s past boyfriend who is trying to get back at her for breaking up with him. How does he want to do this? By killing her and taking away her powers of course. He is unfunny, not menacing, and only convolutes the plot further.
Uma Thurman is awful in the film as an unlikable character. Rather than just making her a normal hurt super powered girl and making Wilson’s character a douche bag that develops into a better person over the course of the film, instead they make Wilson already a likable great guy and G-Girl a bat sh*t insane b*tch that has all the makings of a villain.
The effects for the film look pretty cheap, though that shouldn’t be a surprise coming from the fact that it is a superhero comedy. The movie also doesn’t really have many fight/action scenes in it, besides a HORRIBLE catfight between two super powered women at the end. A fight that easily goes on my list of worst action scenes of the last 20 years.
So My Super Ex-Girlfriend fails as a romantic comedy AND superhero film. It utilizes every cliché in the book and then some. The stereotypical “co-worker he doesn’t notice at work,” and various situational misunderstandings are the unoriginal things that make your eyes roll. Pretty much there is little to nothing to recommend. It isn’t that it’s super bad. Just super mediocre.
FINAL RATING: 3/10- (30%)
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