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Bookmark this pageMy Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Director: Ivan Reitman
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From Time Out London
‘That’s a joke, right?’, a colleague asks Luke Wilson’s New York engineer Matt when he makes an off-colour quip that falls flat. It’s a question you’ll ask yourself repeatedly in this painfully unfunny comedy. A cross between ‘Superman’ and ‘The Break-Up’, it charts Matt’s relationship with Jenny (Uma Thurman), a mild mannered librarian by day, caped superhero G-Girl by night. When Matt breaks up with her, G-Girl lets loose her superhuman rage on the poor schmuck, proving that hell knows no fury like a woman of steel spurned.As ‘The Incredibles’ proved, there are laughs to be had in landing superheroes into humdrum domestic scenarios. But this film wastes Thurman and Wilson’s comic skills with dreadful dialogue, shoddy effects and irritating subplots (is evil mastermind Eddie Izzard’s boyhood crush on G-Girl necessary?). What’s worse, the film’s unease about female power, which sees Thurman humiliated in a girl-fight with Matt’s new squeeze Hannah (the homely Anna Faris), is vaguely distasteful. At one point, jealous Thurman tosses a live shark into Matt and Hannah’s love nest. Unwittingly plunged into this farrago, the shark earns my sympathy.
Author: Edward Lawrenson
Time Out London Issue 1876: August 2-9 2006
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- Posted on Mar 12 2008 12:53 Biggest flop of them all. Uma Thurman's worst film yet. And loads more to come I'm sure
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Cast & crew
Director: Ivan Reitman
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Gavin Polone
Cast: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson, Eddie Izzard, Stelio Savante, Mike Iorio, Mark Consuelos, Wanda Sykes full cast
Rated: 12A
Duration: 96 mins
UK Release: Aug 4 2006
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