Are You A Super Ex-Girlfriend?
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Especially when she has super powers.
Would you like to hurl your ex’s car into space? Throw a live shark into his living room? Leave him standing awkwardly naked in front of his co-workers? You might be an ex-girlfriend. But if you actually could do all those things, you would be a super ex-girlfriend.
That’s just some of the stuff Uma Thurman does to Luke Wilson after their break-up in My Super Ex-Girlfriend. When Matt (Wilson) meets Jenny (Thurman), he thinks he’s found the perfect girl. Little does he know that Jenny is actually G-Girl, the city’s resident superhero. She flies, puts out burning buildings, catches the bad guys, and stops runaway test missiles. You know, the ususal superhero stuff.
But Jenny has a needy and jealous side. Matt dumps her because he’s really in love with Hanna (Anna Faris). Jenny loses it. Payback sucks. Matt then decides to strike back and hatches a plan to strip Jenny of her G-Girl powers with Professor Bedlam (The arch enemy played by Eddie Izzard).
My Super Ex-Girlfriend looks really cheesy on the surface, but it has a nice mix of romance, action and comedy. The only downside; Anna Faris doesn’t get to truly flex her funny. If you remember the toothpaste scene in Just Friends
, you know how easily she can own a movie when she turns it on.
