In the new American film ‘My Super Ex-Girlfriend’ Matt Saunders is your average, all American single guy on the lookout for attractive female company. Matt gets more than he bargained for when he forms a liaison with beautiful gallery assistant, Jenny Johnson. She just also happens to be G-Girl, a sort of female Superman with supernatural powers who is often saving the city from dark criminal elements.
Matt can’t believe his luck. What he hasn’t reckoned on is that his lady is one insecure lady, and can’t handle him enjoying any other female company. Matt ends up breaking up with her. He finds out that hell hath no fury greater than a woman scorned, and G-Girl unleashes all her vengeful powers on him. Matt works out that the only way he will be able to get his life back to normal is if somehow he is able to remove Jenny’s supernatural powers.
‘My Super Ex-Girlfriend’ is the latest film by prolific Hollywood director and producer Ivan Reitman, whose credits include box office hits such as ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Kindergarten’. Reitman has come up with pretty average, mega bucks, escapist entertainment.
I collected a few snapshots…the time when G-Girl sends a live shark flying through Matt’s apartment window whilst he is trying to make it with work colleague, Hannah…and anytime when Uma Thurman flicks back her beautiful mane of blonde hair, a surefire cue that Jenny Johnson is about to transform into G-Girl.
Uma Thurman did fine as Jenny Johnson aka G-Girl. She seemed to revel in the jealous, vengeful slant to her role. I liked her especially in the scene where as Jenny Johnson she is dining with Matt and Hannah in a plush New York restaurant and then the news come over the television that the city is being attacked by errant missiles. Thurman conveys well her characters’ reluctance to leave her boyfriend with another woman even though she is needed to turn into G-Girl in order to avoid a major crisis for the city. For my money, this was the best scene in the movie!
Owen Wilson played Matt Saunders. He had, down pat, the standard, average Joe, non intellectual character that is typical for these kinds of films.
Anna Faris shone as Matt’s work colleague and other love interest, Hannah Lewis. She has a lovely, warm quality about her.
Eddie Izzard didn’t have much room to move in his role as Professor Bedlam, Hannah’s nemesis since they had a falling-out as teenagers. This was pretty ordinary fare…playing the heavy who is really a big softie at heart.
The pick of the supporting cast was Wanda Sykes’s fine comic performances as Matt and Hannah’s work boss, Carla Dunkirk. Carla spends most of her time in the office, keeping her eye on the men, trying to ensure that they don’t harass any of the young women.
My recommendation…Wait till ‘My Super Ex- Girlfriend’ goes to DVD to see it…but then again, that has probably already happened!