My Super Ex-Girlfriend

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© A.J. Malouin 2008

(Ratings: 9 by Caryl and 9 by Al.)
(See our side-bar page “How Caryl & Al Rate Movies”)

(2006—Ivan Reitman—USA)
Men, please don’t fall in love with a superheroine. The headboard-banging sex just ain’t That great (if we can judge anything from Luke Wilson’s acting expressions.) Worse yet, the eventual break-up between the two of you might wreck your apartment. Those are two of the lessons we can take away from the slightly entertaining “My Super Ex-Girlfriend.”

Here’s our story: Jenny Johnson, secretly the superhero known as G Girl (and played by Uma Thurman) falls in love with the total nerd Matt Saunders (played by Luke Wilson) when he sorta breaks up the snatching of her purse on a Manhattan subway. (“I always help people. People never help me,” G Girl explains.) (Deep sigh, we add, sensing immediately how easy G Girl is.)

It turns out that G Girl is also very needy (a strange personality trait for a superhero!), very jealous (as if any woman could outshine– or out-fly– her!) and very insecure.

Wilson, taking the advice of his dear friend (are those mutual twinkles in their eyes?) and co-worker Hannah (played by Anna Faris) and after taking all he can stand from G Girl, finally breaks up with her.

In a classically bad rebound timing, Wilson and Faris immediately fall in love, thus inspiring the wrath of G Girl. (Hannah asks Matt: “Why did G Girl throw a shark at us?”)

(Very funny stuff, that!)

Wilson fears for his life (while Caryl and Al fear only for his career) at the hands of the vindictive and petty G Girl. The only thing that can save him is the neutralizing of G Girl’s super-human powers. Predictably, her super powers revolve around a meteor (from outer space.) G Girl’s current nemesis and former high-school boyfriend, the evil Professor Bedlam, has access to this meteor. Wilson must team up with him to strip G Girl (of her powers, that is.)

How that scenario plays out, and who winds up together romantically, can easily be guessed at, but is still somewhat fun to watch happen.

“My Super Ex-Girlfriend” takes place in Manhattan (always a plus as a film location!) and has many good one-liners. Neither Al or Caryl care much for Luke Wilson (nor Owen Wilson, for that matter.) Caryl Doesn’t like his nasality. Neither Caryl nor Al, however, found that Wilson was able to wreck their enjoyment This time.

Neither Al nor Caryl, however, liked Wilson’s movie side-kick, Vaughn Haige, played pudgewoodenly by Rainn Wilson. (Good lord, could the two of them be brothers? Certain misfortunes Are genetic…) Here again, though, Haige could not destroy the fun.

Al thought some of the very best scenes in the movie were stolen by Wanda Sykes, who played Saunders’ workplace supervisor Carla Dunkirk, a woman always on the lookout for actionable cases of sexual harassment.

Al also thought that you have to love any superhero movie in which one character asks another The Eternal Question. (“If you could choose to have any one super power, which one would it be?”)

All in all, Caryl and Al found “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” to be a not very bad way to spend a late-summer afternoon. Most of their accompanying audience, moreover, liked it even better than that. When you take it Home, you will, too!

(1 hr 35. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, crude humor, language and brief nudity.)