My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Plot synopsis:
After foiling a purse snatcher who tries to steal Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman)'s purse on the subway, Matthew Saunders (Luke Wilson) becomes Jenny's "hero" and starts dating this shy stranger. After several dates, Jenny displays increasingly neurotic and aggressive behavior, becoming more demanding and ultimately injuring Matt and destroying his bed the first time they have sex. Soon after, Jenny reveals to him that she is in fact the voluptuous blonde superheroine, G-Girl, who accidentally received powers such as flight, superhuman strength, speed, and senses, invulnerability, super breath, and heat vision after she was exposed to radiation from a crashed meteorite as a teenager. Jenny starts to become more controlling after she reveals her powers and Matt starts to lose his mind.
Hannah Lewis (Anna Faris), Matt's co-worker, has a crush on him despite the fact that she is going out with a handsome but shallow underwear model. As Matt and Hannah's friendship develops further, and after becoming aggravated with Jenny's escalating jealousy, Matt ends the relationship. An enraged Jenny vows to make Matt regret the decision, using her superpowers to publicly embarrass him, throwing his car into space and eventually causing him to lose his job as an architect when she strips him naked during an important meeting. Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard), Jenny's former friend, and now G-Girl's nemesis, contacts Matt in order to enlist his aid in defeating her. Matt refuses and makes plans to leave the city. As he does so he is contacted by Hannah who has broken up with her cheating boyfriend, and after confessing their feelings to one another, they end up in bed.
Jenny (as G-Girl) discovers them in bed the next day. Enraged and jealous, she attacks the pair with a great white shark. Angered, Matt contacts Professor Bedlam and agrees to help him defeat her, as long as Bedlam retires from being a supervillain. He instructs Matt to lure Jenny to a meeting where she can be exposed to another meteorite that will draw away her powers, leaving her a mere mortal. Matt agrees and meets Jenny for a candlelit dinner at his apartment, under the pretense of wanting to resume their relationship. Hannah arrives to see Jenny sitting on Matt's lap. The two women fight, and in the struggle Jenny's superhero identity is revealed to Hannah. Bedlam's trap is sprung, and the energy that gave Jenny her powers is drained back into the meteorite, incapacitating Jenny.
Professor Bedlam appears, but reveals that he has no intention of keeping his promise to retire from villainy and in fact plans to take the powers for himself. While he and Matt fight, Jenny crawls to the charged meteorite attempting to regain her powers. Hannah intervenes just as Jenny grabs the meteorite, which explodes in a burst of power. Both Hannah and Jenny are catapulted off the roof, apparently to their deaths; Jenny appears within seconds, powers restored, threatening even more mayhem. Only the unexpected reappearance of Hannah, who was also exposed to the meteorite's energies, and now possesses the same powers as G-Girl, saves Matt. The second fight between Hannah and Jenny is a full-on super-brawl, destroying part of the neighboring properties. Finally, Matt reasons with them both and they cease fighting. He tells Jenny that Professor Bedlam is her true love. Jenny agrees and she embraces her former nemesis.
The next morning, Matt and Hannah meet up with Professor Bedlam (now just "Barry") and Jenny. As cries for help are heard from afar, Jenny and Hannah, who have become partners in crime-fighting, take off to tackle the emergency. Matt and Barry are left holding their girlfriends' purses and clothes, and leave to have a beer together.

Tags: revenge, entertaining, violence, stupid

Review:
It's funny, but it's not pretty ..It's a delightful premise, hell hath no fury like a super-heroine scorned, and those involved don't altogether carry it off, but it has its moments, and I think I'll get the DVD.I liked this movie ...
However, director Ivan Reitman and writer Don Payne (of the "Simpson's") almost fatally miscalculate in having their hero G-Girl (played by striking Uma Thurman) come off as a total nut job as both Superhero and secret identity persona Jenny Johnson.
The movie even cops to this in a conversation between Jenny and Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) following his rescue by G-Girl from the Statue of Liberty.
Matt replies, "She's kind of nutty" I think the intent was to have Jenny (Thurman) be this lonely young woman, who has no one in her life, isolated by her great physical powers.
Luke Wilson is way too breezy in the role reversal of boyfriend and superhero girl friend."My Super Ex-Girlfriend" is also a victim of bad timing, coming on the tail end of "Superman Returns" which plays Superhero straight up, so to speak.
With all its quirks and inconsistent writing I still thought "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" was funny and enjoyed the movie.
Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) thinks he has found the perfect woman in Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman), who seems like a quiet but pretty woman, though he soon learns that she's needy and possessive, oh, and she's also the superhero G-Girl, though you wouldn't know it from the things she does to Matt after he freaks out and breaks up with her.A promising premise is ruined by a mediocre execution.
After a successful run in the eighties and early nineties, he started making crap like Evolution and Father's Day. I wouldn't say My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a complete bust but I don't give him credit for any of the quality the movie holds, which isn't too much.
My Super-Ex Girlfriend;; Matt Saunders(Luke Wilson) is uneasy when he meets Jenny Johnson(Uma Thurman), who comes off to him as a shy, needy librarian type.
Little does anybody know, G-Girl is really Jenny Johnson.When Matt introduces Jenny to his long-time work friend Hannah(Ana Faris), Jenny begins to act jealous and controlling, which leads to him dumping her.
It's no masterpiece, but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion - the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is, even with the superhero thing going, believable.So. Thin story, but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time.7 out of 10 broken hearts.
My Super Ex Girlfriend turned out to be a pleasant surprise for me, I was really expecting a horrible movie that would probably be stupid and predictable, and you know what?
I know that this was a very cheesy movie, but Uma and Anna were just so cool and Steve was such a great addition along with a great cast that looked like they had so much fun and that's what made the movie really work.Jenny Johnson(scary, that's my best friend's actual name) is not your typical average librarian looking woman, when Matt, your average male, asks her out, he's in for more than he expected, he's asked G-Girl out on a date, the super hero of the world!
But when he finds out what a jealous and crazy girl she really is and decides that it may be a good idea that they spend some time apart, but Jenny won't have it since he's fallen for another girl, Hannah, and she will make his life a living hell, I mean, let's face it, he couldn't have chosen a better girl to break up with.The effect were corny, but you seriously move past them quickly, the story and cast made the story really work and I loved Uma in this movie, it was such a step up from Prime.
My Super Ex Girlfriend is a fun movie that you shouldn't really take seriously, it's just a cute romantic comedy that I think if I could get a laugh out of it, anyone could.7/10.
Yes, it is nothing spectacular, but if you are after some really light, fun and cool movie, this one is great one.I actually don't like many of those comedy / romance films, but this one is actually funny!
This distaff Superman, with powers bestowed upon her by a fallen meteorite, isn't a fantasy heroine, however...screenwriter Don Payne has conceived her as a needy, possessive, vindictive bitch (he telegraphs this to us from miles away, though Uma Thurman still plays the role for sassy laughs).
A lot of sexual stuff, but when your dealing with Uma, and Anna, its okay.I would have like to have seen Vince Vaughn play the part of "Vaughn" and although Luke Wilson played the part well, it was definitely a Ben Stiller-type character.Within 10 minuets, it already, to me, beat out superman as the best superhero movie this year.Highly Recommended..
The supporting cast was also superb especially Anna Faris who was extremely good (A lot better than in the Scary Movie franchise).Ivan Rietman did very well in directing this film because if it wasn't for him and Uma Thurman this film wouldn't have done so well.
I don't know I just found this movie very funny...the effects were rather good for a goofy comedy and it had a very likable cast.
The acting is poor, and the worst thing about this film is the payoff at the end, or lack thereof.Why Luke Wilson still gets film roles is beyond me, and now is probably the time for Uma Thurman to start doing costume dramas - she is not physically attractive, and to my mind, hardly ever was.Eddie Izzard, one of the world's most innovative, imaginative and hilarious comedians is reduced to a pithy, forgettable yet cringe-worthy role as the, "evil," bad guy of the piece, but has to stick with the pathetic script that he's been dealt and cannot add any of his own genius to the film.The special effects look cheap and nasty for this day and age, but are probably the best thing about this poor film.If you like the extremely mediocre, then you'll love this film.
And i also like how Uma Thurman plays the superhero g-girl i think she's a great actress!!!
Ultimately, I think the most important point the movie makes is that if someone isn't in love with you, you can't change that through force- even if you're as hot as Uma Thurman (and she is as smoking hot as ever) and have special scary powers.
But then his luck begins to change when he meets Jenny (Uma Thurman) who is also a well known superhero named G-Girl, who has the same powers has Superman, well pretty much.
I thought it was the funniest thing I'd seen in over a year.Yet I understand why some people might either be offended by sex humor; expect it to be a Bill Murray movie; just not get some of the crude humor or ironic "stealth humor"; not dig comic book heroes; or even think Jenny Johnson/G-Girl's behavior was totally appropriate, and therefore see it as drama rather than as comedy.It's not a movie for the chronically uptight, but I'm not rating this movie for how others might feel about it.You could wait for the DVD rental if you're broke, but I thought the superhero action looked good on the big screen.
Before seeing it I had a fairly good idea that it wouldn't be genius - the premise seemed far too silly and stupid for anything good to come out of it, but at the back of my mind I was thinking "but there must be something good about it for UMA THURMAN and Luke Wilson do to the film..." not that I think either of them are particularly terrific but they are big-named stars who would normally only do films that would enhance their reputations.
Uma Thurman is an absolutely beautiful and delightful woman, she is great as super heroine g-girl, as for the other supporting characters they are there to be there since all or most of our attention ought to be focused on Uma. Anyways, the movie plays out like any other great Ivan reitman film.
I just thought this movie was hilariously funny, like after the shark fell out the window, Hannah says, "Why did G Girl throw a shark at us?
When you watch the movie you can guess every punch line something like 30 seconds before it comes, and about 90% of the jokes aren't funny.
There is a really great, funny movie waiting to bust out of "My Super Ex-Girlfriend." It never quite happens.
In New York, when the shy and lonely project manager of a design firm Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) meets Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman) in the subway, he invites her to date and have dinner with him.
However, the archenemy of G-Girl and former high school sweetheart of Jenny, Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard), proposes Matt to lure Jenny to strip her superpowers."My Super Ex-Girlfriend" is delightfully silly and funny.
I think this is definitely a great 'first date' kind of movie, and even a 'hanging with the girls/guys' kinda film.
Fed up with her neediness and obsessive behaviour, Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) decides to dump G-Girl (Uma Thurman), his superhero girlfriend.
Miffed at being ditched, G-Girl proceeds to make Matt's life a misery, trashing his car, boiling his goldfish, and even throwing a live shark into his new girlfriend's apartment.At the end of his tether, Matt agrees to help master villain Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard) to strip G-Girl of her powers.After watching nothing but horror movies recently, I was in the mood for a silly, undemanding piece of vacuous fluff; with My Super Ex-Girlfriend, that's exactly what I got.The comedy is thankfully more 'hit' than 'miss' (although it is admittedly fairly low-brow stuff, with plenty of crude jokes about sexlet the kiddies watch this one, and be prepared to have to answer awkward questions), there are plenty of flashy special effects, and the plot sees everything ending up hunky-dory by the closing credits.Uma Thurman proves that she is adept at comedy and delivers a fun performance, switching effortlessly between being smoking hot (G-Girl is a total babe!) and convincingly menacing; Luke Wilson looks sufficiently confused as his life is turned upside-down; Anna Faris (as Matt's true-love Hannah) is her usual yummy self; and Eddie Izzard is...
Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) thinks he's finally found the perfect girlfriend, the beautiful Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman) -- who just so happens to be a superhero.
Rated PG-13 for Violence,Language and Sexual Content.My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a romantic comedy with an interesting and original concept.Its about a man who gets a girlfriend but the girlfriend is really a superhero.She is also controlling and the man doesn't like her very much after a while.He breaks up with her and she gets very angry and starts making his life a living hell by getting him fired from his job and ruining his house.Meanwhile her nemesis/ex-boyfriend wants to destroy her and gets her other ex-boyfriend to help him.My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a film that's funny at times and has an original concept but other than that.Its just your average romantic-comedy..
Unfortunately, this film just seems like it fell into a chasm of wasted ideas, talent and humour.As anyone can guess from the movie's title, the film concerns a superhero, G-Girl/Jenny (Uma Thurman), and her boyfriend Matt (Luke Wilson).
Wanda Sykes plays another mouthy eccentric character, but after seeing her pull this same shtick in everything from her TV roles, to her work with Chris Rock, and even her animated roles in Barnyard and Over the Hedge, it is getting to be a bit overdone.Rainn Wilson, as Matt's friend Vaughn, actually emerges fairly unscathed from the film as just about the only thing to continue watching for.
It was actually a joy to watch him show up on-screen, because no matter how ridiculously bad the situation in the film was, Wilson would still manage to inject some sort of saving grace.On the whole, My Super Ex-Girlfriend is just one big mess of a movie.
This film combines comedy with special effects, just like "Ghostbusters", but comparing the two is painful: "Ghostbusters" had fun characters, "Girlfriend" has none.
I must also comment on the wonderful performance of Uma Thurman and a very surprising and convincing one by Luke Wilson.The rest of the cast is doing their share in an altogether nice comedy..
That leads into the movie's final battle, with a couple of surprises in store, as Matt tries to lure Jenny/G-Girl back under falsely altruistic pretenses.My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a funny, light-hearted movie, which puts a different spin on superhero movie conventions.
There was hardly anything funny in 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend' and that comes from a guy who liked director Ivan Reitman's 'Evolution'.
Here he lives in a New York where a superhero named G-Girl (Uma Thurman) becomes his girlfriend as Jenny Johnson.
omg, i totally did not like this movie EVEN ONE BIT it as truly AWFUL, it is so good to go see a movie where you can just turn your b rain off and just laugh but you do not even get that with this terrible movie, my friends and I all HATED it.The only funny thing was the shark scene but that was just one little piece out of an entire whole movie.
But that part was pretty good, but also they gave it away in the preview so you totally knew it was coming so it was not a truly big huge laugh.Luke Wilson is hot but that is not a good enough reason to spend your money to watch this.Terrible movie!.
I went to this movie with hopes of being entertained and having a good laugh as the preview made it look very funny.
My Super Ex-GirlfriendThe problem with dating a superhero is that they always have to 'save the world' right before the check arrives.Being stiffed with the bill however is just another reason why the civilian in this comedy dumped his super-girlfriend.When Matt (Luke Wilson) apprehends her mugger, Jenny (Uma Thurman) agrees to go out with him.
This is an extremely light romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson and Anna Faris.
The fight scene between Uma Thurman and the other girl was kinda cool.However, what put me down in this movie is something in the acting.
Despite the fact that Uma Thurman appears in a super-girl type outfit, it's not enough to redeem this sorry excuse for a movie.
It boasts also some very good performances from Uma Thurman as the ultra-neurotic and high-strung Jenny Johnson aka G-Girl, who can be as nuts as she is sweet and dangerous as heroic, and even Luke Wilson playing a typical kind of role with his sort of charm and off-handed way of playing scenes.
It may be a flip of the coin in which a comedy will be successful or not and it turns out "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" got the unfortunate half.This film will put a smile on your face when you finish watching this movie.
All the cast members give their share of laughs and Anna Faris' performance is actually her better performances than in the Scary Movie franchises.If you just want a light hearted fun action comedy that doesn't go into the serious issues in many superhero films, this film will win you over..
He hooks up with super girl, actually G-Girl, played by Uman Thurman.Now, it was a little corny seeing someone of Uma's ability acting like a school girl, but Izzard wasn't doing much better.Things get a little silly when he breaks up with her, and she and Anna Faris (all the Scary Movies) get it on with Luke as the prize.
Maybe one appreciates it more if one is used to watching "superhero" films like the Superman, Batman, X-Men, Spiderman etc franchises but, be that as it may, it sure made comedy sense to me.I won't say much about the story except that it is a good idea and works...
Other comedy caricatures that can be found are the loud supervisors, the stereotypical foreigners etc.The superhero bit was in fact incorporated quite well in this movie and even the few superhero acts that are performed are quite humorous and try and incorporate the fact that the superhero is actually a girl.The supervillian though was far from super and even though Eddie Izzard did a great job as the villain his character was completely wasted.The acting was great but Uma Thurman looked old and out of place I can think of a dozen better people to play this role.The jokes were quite funny with some really ones being the hilarious shark scene, the presentation scene, the sex scenes and my favourite the scene in the restaurant when Uma has to save the city.A few scenes bordered on intelligent especially the different descriptions of Umas childhood.
Who wants to be on the bad side of a Superhero!I read some reviews of this movie and some people were criticising the story, performance, etc..After watching this movie I must admit that the film was a great flick for a laugh and some good fun.
The cast of Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson and Anna Faris really work well together in a odd sort of way with the special effects not looking as cheesy as they could in a comedy.If you're looking for a film with stunning direction and consumptive story then rent something else, But if you want a snappy little comedy for a light night with friends or you partner and maybe a few beers then My Super Ex-girlfriend delivers!.
I obviously know of Uma Thurman, yet I don't think I had actually seen her in any other films so I had no preconceptions of her!
Luke Wilson, who plays Matt, does also bring in some great moments in the movie in acting out his characters attempts at coping with his super hero ex!