Saw it at a screening last week, just got around to writing it
for you REELers 
Review:
A romantic comedy with a superhero is a great concept. My Super
Ex-Girlfriend is written by television-writer Don Payne (which
makes sense) and directed by veteran comedy director, Ivan Reitman
(Ghostbusters, Evolution), whos no stranger to mixing up the
genres. With a premise as great as that, it manages to succumb to
its lofty ambitions and become an adequately interesting story that
was jazzed up by a creative mind and a fantastic performance.
Although plagued by formulaic set-ups and the well-worn banality of
predictable characterisations, it still manages to deliver a fun
little flick.
It adopts the superhero and romantic comedy clichés and makes it a
hybrid thats intriguing in how it plays out but is not exactly
inspired material. It just takes a tired genre and gives it an
exciting new makeover in the form of G-Girl (Uma Thurman), a carbon
copy of Superman right down to her Clark Kentish alter ego, the
frumpy bookish curator Jenny Johnson. She meets Matt Saunders (Luke
Wilson), a blander-than-vanilla, all-round nice guy architect who
saves her handbag from a mugger. From there, we get the
bittersweet getting-to-know-you stage where he finds a paranoid,
jealous and overly neurotic side of her.
After he dumps her, he becomes victim to her constant annoyance and
you never ever want to get a superhero aggrieved. Uma Thurman is an
absolute delight in the movie. Although you could argue that her
titular role is mildly supporting, with Luke Wilsons being the
central chump, her commitment to her characters neurosis is
undeniable and often illuminating. Throw in a subplot with an evil
villain and youve got yourself a silly film with the right mixture
of screwball and sentiment.
Rounding off the cast is the more annoying than usual horny but
clueless best friend (Rainn Wilson), the coquettish new girlfriend
(the always charming Anna Faris) and top-drawer comic talents in
Wanda Sykes (in absolutely pointless scenes) and Eddie Izzard
playing Matts boss and G-Girls arch-nemesis respectively. The ace
comic talents and seasoned rom-com performers seem bored and jaded
by their roles, but still pull off an ample job.
So despite a few faults, it manages to graft out some heartfelt and
genuinely amusing chuckles. If you think you know what youll be
getting with this film, youre not bound to be surprised (unlike
Click), its like Coke with its new lime twist, a familiar but
interesting taste.
3/5
