Review of My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) by Dawdlingpoet — 28 Nov 2021

There are some pretty funny moments during the movie but they don't last too long and I think what really lets it down is the fact that it seemed very predictable. It just seemed a bit TOO daft to me and the ending was a little cheesy too, perhaps. I thought that the movie was alright but they maybe tried a bit too hard to make a movie based on a rather short story. I think it may have worked better if, instead of making it clear from the movie title that she gets dumped, instead that came as a surprise and wasn't obvious, then it might have been funnier as people wouldn't expect to see what happened. As it is, it seemed a bit too obvious I suppose. There definately are some funny moments but their a bit too fleeting and I felt as if the movie almost took itself too seriously. Knowing that this movie is an Ivan Reitman movie, I suppose I felt I expected something a bit more, substantial I suppose, or at least less mediocre.

However, one other character, other than Eddie's, that I quite liked, was Hannah Lewis, a workmate of Matts that G-Girl got jealous towards Matt about, thinking that he was also seeing her behind her back (which he wasn't, at the time). Hannah is played by Anna Faris, who I like as an actress from the Scary Movie movies, she has good facial expressions, if you know what I mean. Her and Eddie as professor Bedlam (or Barry as his real name is, who, as it turns out, is actually G-Girls old ex school friend) make it a slightly more interesting movie as their characters I thought were pretty good. Luke is, as always, a good actor and does fine in this movie, though I thought that there wasn't a great deal particularly to like about his character, I suppose we're supposed to feel sorry for him as he seems to be quite a shy guy that doesn't really know how to do handle relationships or certainly get out of them well. The way he dumps her though, I say he got what he deserved *hah* I guess maybe im being a bit unfair on this movie, it is certainly entertaining enough to keep teens (which I guess its mainly targeted at/for) quiet for the hour and a half it lasts but its just nothing all THAT great really, I felt that we watch the movie already knowing too much of the story and that kind of spoils it in a sense. It certainly isn't the kind of movie that I would want to watch many times, if again at all really, so I'd recommend you either rent this or get it on pay per view but don't bother buying it.