X GF not so super
Added 9/13/2009
Great concept, but ends up as thin soup. Likeable actors, professionally made, but for me the approach never clicked.
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Given time I could think of hundreds, but for the sake of brevity, here are 10 reasons why MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND is horrifically, inherently, overwhelmingly, incessantly, belligerently, and desperately BAD:
10. Neurotic, insecure, insanely jealous superheroes are not only not funny, but get on my nerves.
9. Uma Thurman needs to stick to slasher shoot-'em-ups and avoid comedy.
8. Luke Wilson whines, gripes, moans, and whimpers more than a room full of teen girls just informed the Jonas Brothers concert has been cancelled.
7. Plus he's not funny.
6. The moving bed sequence was just plain lame; but this film is so bad we're going to get to see this sight gag twice.
5. Wanda Sykes.
4. Eddie Izzard. Are you kidding me? No, you are not kidding me.
3. Rainn Wilson is the most annoying sidekick since Gabby Hayes.
2. Anna Faris's considerable comedic talents are completely and utterly wasted.
And the number one reason MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND is so sickeningly bad:
1. Too bad that CGI shark wasn't real.
To stretch this into a poultry metaphor, even if it were Thanksgiving this gobbler wouldn't make the dining room table.
--D. Mikels, Esq.
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Funny spoof on super hero theme
Added 8/1/2009
The movie deals with a guy (Luke Wilson) who dates a woman (Uma Thurman) who is a super heroine in disguise. She goes around fighting crime. She obtains super hero powers by coming into contact with a meteorite. The story does not get really funny and interesting until the guy tries to break up with the super powered girlfriend. He incurs her wrath when he tells her that he wants out of their relationship. In desperation, he goes to a former acquaintance of hers (Eddie Izzard) for assistance. The movie has quite a few funny sequences when he is dating her. There are some uses of profanity, but it is not excessive. There are scenes of implied sex, so the movie may not suitable for preteen viewers. There is only one nude scene and it involves the male character. The violent scenes are not graphic and actually a bit cartoonish. Anna Faris and Wanda Sykes provide the coworker support in the movie. The buddy character is played by Rainn Wilson who stars in "the office" on NBC. It is a cute and amusing romantic comedy. I thought it was a much better super hero movie than the "Return of Superman" which came out that same year.
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So I Married G-Girl
Added 1/21/2009
This is low-concept but it works on it's meager intentions to merely entertain. This came out during the dog days of summer when you park your brain cells and the makers of the film were wise to realize this. In other words it's stoopid(good) as opposed to stupid(bad). The talented cast is in on the gag and run with it. A slumming Uma Thurman is terrific as the super-heroine whose alter ego is neurotic, manipulative and controlling. A high point is the put upon look on Uma's face when she's compelled to interrupt her lunch to intercept a missile about to destroy the city. Luke Wilson, an adequate actor at best, suffices as the everyman who get's to live every manchild's fantasy(so he thinks). Eddie Izzard is okay as the perfunctory villain but when is Hollywood going to better utilize his prodigious talents? I saw him 10 years ago on the London stage playing Lenny Bruce and he was nothing short of brilliant. Ditto, for Anna Faris who is just as much brains as beauty and given a marginal chance to shine here. Not great but has cult potential.
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i wish g-girl that thrown a shark AT ME
Added 9/25/2008
Sadly enough, it was largely unfunny and uninteresting. I love Uma Thurman and I love Luke Wilson, but apparently they are two great tastes that do not taste great together. I am curious as to what it was about the script that attracted them.
Uma Thurman plays Jenny Johnson, a single, lonely artist, and her alter ego -- the super hero G-Girl. Jenny begins dating Matt (Luke Wilson), revealing her alter ego over the course of their relationship, and after her insane, neurotic, girl-jealousy prods him to break up with her, she uses her super powers to make him really, really regret dumping her. There was nothing at all interesting about either character.
Luke Wilson's Matt was stereotypical Luke Wilson. An adorable, average sort of guy totally lacking the gentle likability of Legally Blonde's Emmett or the naughty charm of The Family Stone's Ben. Thurman's G-Girl/Jenny was uncharmingly neurotic. She was that girl who wants to be in a relationship, but who really doesn't know how until she meets the guy who shows her how much fun and how easy it is. Only in those kinds of movies they hit a snag and get back together and live happily ever after, she after having been rescued by this pseudo knight in shining armor. In My Super Ex-Girlfriend, the girl turns out to be a crazy super hero with a taste for vengeance.
I didn't like that G-Girl was really such a bad guy. Sure she does good deeds and saves lives and all that, but she's incredibly petty. I know that, in part, that's the point -- she's an average person who just happens to have super powers (unlike the ideal caricatured super hero who fights for truth, justice and the American way) -- but what they seem to have done is exchange one caricature (superhero a la Superman) for another (petty, needy and vindictive female).
Eddie Izzard takes a turn as the super villain, only he's in love with G-Girl and plagues her because of some mishmashed desire for her and an old high school inspired grudge against her for ignoring him once she became a super hero. Eddie Izzard is adorable no matter what, and he plays Professor Bedlam with tongue suitably planted in cheek, but even he wasn't enough to save this film.
The super girl smackdown at the end was boring and trite. I don't find girls fighting over guys even remotely interesting, the fact that they had super powers didn't improve the situation at all.
So, yeah, definitely a big fat no.
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X GF not so super
Added 9/13/2009
Great concept, but ends up as thin soup. Likeable actors, professionally made, but for me the approach never clicked.
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Given time I could think of hundreds, but for the sake of brevity, here are 10 reasons why MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND is horrifically, inherently, overwhelmingly, incessantly, belligerently, and desperately BAD:
10. Neurotic, insecure, insanely jealous superheroes are not only not funny, but get on my nerves.
9. Uma Thurman needs to stick to slasher shoot-'em-ups and avoid comedy.
8. Luke Wilson whines, gripes, moans, and whimpers more than a room full of teen girls just informed the Jonas Brothers concert has been cancelled.
7. Plus he's not funny.
6. The moving bed sequence was just plain lame; but this film is so bad we're going to get to see this sight gag twice.
5. Wanda Sykes.
4. Eddie Izzard. Are you kidding me? No, you are not kidding me.
3. Rainn Wilson is the most annoying sidekick since Gabby Hayes.
2. Anna Faris's considerable comedic talents are completely and utterly wasted.
And the number one reason MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND is so sickeningly bad:
1. Too bad that CGI shark wasn't real.
To stretch this into a poultry metaphor, even if it were Thanksgiving this gobbler wouldn't make the dining room table.
--D. Mikels, Esq.
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Funny spoof on super hero theme
Added 8/1/2009
The movie deals with a guy (Luke Wilson) who dates a woman (Uma Thurman) who is a super heroine in disguise. She goes around fighting crime. She obtains super hero powers by coming into contact with a meteorite. The story does not get really funny and interesting until the guy tries to break up with the super powered girlfriend. He incurs her wrath when he tells her that he wants out of their relationship. In desperation, he goes to a former acquaintance of hers (Eddie Izzard) for assistance. The movie has quite a few funny sequences when he is dating her. There are some uses of profanity, but it is not excessive. There are scenes of implied sex, so the movie may not suitable for preteen viewers. There is only one nude scene and it involves the male character. The violent scenes are not graphic and actually a bit cartoonish. Anna Faris and Wanda Sykes provide the coworker support in the movie. The buddy character is played by Rainn Wilson who stars in "the office" on NBC. It is a cute and amusing romantic comedy. I thought it was a much better super hero movie than the "Return of Superman" which came out that same year.
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