Directed by Ivan Reitman. Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard. Synopsis: A young bachelor who loves his single life finds he has to deal with the fact that he has strong feelings for a woman at work who is already taken and that the girl is currently seeing is a little unstable....and she is a superhero. Comedy/Action/Fantasy.
I didn't know exactly what to expect when I picked up this one. I hadn't heard too much about it and I didn't do a whole lot of due diligence in reading the back cover. I don't know what I was thinking, maybe a comedic take off of Uma's action hero talents that she showed in Kill Bill. Well, it wasn't like that at all and Uma's character (Jenny Johnson/G Girl) is not what I expected.
Now, don't go jumping to conclusions thinking that I was disappointed in this one, I wasn't. In fact, its pretty good and it is funny, just in a different way than I thought. The protagonist (Luke Wilson Idiocracy) is just a regular, successful young businessman who is confortable playing the field. As such, there is nothing out of the ordinary about his date with Jenny, until the incredible lovemaking session. It seems that Jenny has almost superhuman energy and stamina. Don't worry, if you have a mind to, that the superhero angle is played for some cheap thrills in the love scenes. Its not, pure comedy only.
There is one other thing about Jenny. She is kind of, as they say, "high maintenance", and this only intensifies when she reveals to Luke that she is, in fact, G Girl, the well known superhero. Wow, now things are going to get complicated. Especially when it comes time to dump G Girl, as Luke now has his eye on a girl from work (Anna Faris Scary Movie) who is already taken but the energy between them is there, if you know what I mean.
Well, you take a guy with a jealous-if not neurotic-girlfriend who happens to have super powers; add into the equation that he has eyes for a taken woman, and the recipe for laughs is there. There is a very good "making out in the clouds" scene with Thurman and Wilson that is particularly funny.
And, there is more. Every suoerhero needs an anti hero to make it a true superhero stroy, and we've got one here in Bedlam, whose alter ego, Barry, happens to be an old friend of Jenny/G Girl. And he knows about her new boyfriend.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend is not a masterpiece, but it doesn't try to be and I always like that in a film. It wanted to make me laugh and it did. Wilson and Faris (Scary Movie) in particular do a good job keeping us giggling.
Not a bad flick.
In fact, pretty good.
