Review of My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) by Steve D — 22 Jun 2014

The film follows an idea of a break-up that breaks the woman's heart and the man's relationship chains, or the other way around depends who's dumping whom. But Ivan Reitman, director of good comedies such as "Animal House" and "Ghostbusters," added something more painful to the man than how the woman received when she's a local superhero of New York (duh). So this becomes like a spoof to the superhero genre when the woman started goofing around with her powers against her ex-boyfriend who she considered a bad guy when he broke her heart.

This goofiness behavior doesn't consider her a hero like any other with coolness (obviously since she's the main piece of spoofing the genre). Her time with the hero title is the everyday style than saving the world most of the show (kind of like the style Cartoon Network's "Teen Titans Go!" - don't know why I'm mentioning it - is going for while being called "a bunch of a-holes" from the "Guardians of the Galaxy" trailer).

Uma Thurman portrays the superwoman. So the film is basically "Kill Bill" with superpowers whereas her "The Bride" character went hunting down her ex-husband and his gang after they'd massacred her family and friends. In this film, Thurman went goofing around with her powers on the guy that'd broke her heart. The guy that'd done that is Luke Wilson.

"My Super Ex-Girlfriend" isn't the worst superhero film when it have okay key elements to the concept, but it's the most blandish with minimal comedy to it. Next to the film's pair is other good casted stars such as Rainn Wilson delivering most of the film's minimal comedy, Anna Farris as Wilson's rightful love interest, Eddie Izzard as the "villain," and Wanda Skyes as an easily misunderstood, disrespectful boss towards Wilson.

It's okay to miss this. Your life won't get ruined or pick on by the superwoman. (B-).