My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Jenny Johnson / G-Girl: Uma Thurman
Matt Saunders: Luke Wilson
Hannah Lewis: Anna Faris
Vaughn Haige: Rainn Wilson
Barry Lambert / Professor Bedlam: Eddie Izzard
Carla Dunkirk: Wanda Sykes
20th Century Fox presents a film written by Don Payne and directed by Ivan Reitman.
Running Time: 95 minutes
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, crude humor, language and brief nudity.
Release Date: July 21, 2006
Review Date: July 26, 2007
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I'm sure we've all sat in front of the silver screen for a terrible movie and wondered, "How in the blue hell did this get made?" For every major studio release, there's somebody who has to sit down, see the project in their mind, and decide that it's worth a large amount of time, energy, and money. For the entire length of My Super Ex-Girlfriend, I couldn't help but try and count better ways to blow $65,000,000. Unfortunately, I'm still counting.
For the first hour, the Ex part of the title doesn't even apply. That's how long it takes to set up what we already know going in - that Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) dates and eventually breaks up with the alter ego of a super hero (Thurman). There are a lot of scenes to answer questions about how superhero sex to fill that hour. (Maybe it was Brodie Bruce who cut the $65,000,000 check?) That amount of time isn't really necessary, especially since before the first handful of popcorn has digested it's blatantly obvious that Saunders should really be with his co-worker, Hannah (Faris).
That's why I found this film so dull. How am I supposed to get into a picture where the characters are too stupid to see what's glaringly obvious to the audience from the beginning? And I'm not just referring to the relationships. The only difference between Jenny Johnson and G-Girl is hair color, yet absolutely nobody around her can tell that they're one in the same. Don't you think in a city with eight million people, somebody would notice the similarity?
Aside from the non-romance and break-up, there's a villain lurking in the shadows (Izzard). He's merely there out of convenience to wrapping this mess up, however, as he gets about as much screen time as the CGI shark that winds up in Hannah's apartment. Seriously. And neither of them are in the film nearly as much as Wanda Sykes, who serves no purpose other than to make a bunch of amazingly unfunny remarks about sexual harassment in the workplace.
There's no doubt that the cast involved is able to work with a romantic comedy, but this film is just too dull and ludicrous to be worth anything. 20th Century Fox would've been better served to break up with My Super Ex-Girlfriend long before it got to theaters.
* (out of ****)