That is not to say that My Super Ex-Girlfriend is the perfect feature film. In fact, it is far from that. The movie is riddled with clichés and it is extremely easy to figure out where the plot is going fairly early on in the flick. A rocket scientist was certainly not on hand during the screenplay production. Nor was anyone that creative for that matter.
Yes, My Super Ex-Girlfriend isn’t the most intelligent piece of cinema. Then again, it doesn’t really need to be. All that matters in a movie of this magnitude is that the audience is entertained for an hour and a half and the jokes work. Anything further would have been somewhat unexpected and rather superfluous.
Instead, what we get is an ordinary yet engaging tale of boy meets supergirl, boy dumps supergirl and boy gets life ruined by supergirl. Luke Wilson plays Matt Saunders, a man who asks a woman played by Uma Thurman out while riding the subway. The woman, named Jenny Johnson, falls hard for Matt when he attempts to save her from a robbery.
A relationship develops between Matt and Jenny. Matt begins to grow weary of Jenny when she is a bit too powerful in the sack. Matt gets abducted by Professor Bedlam, played by Eddie Izzard, the arch nemesis of the town’s superheroine G-Girl. Matt finds himself hanging from the torch of Lady Liberty but G-Girl saves him before he becomes a human pancake.
Jenny confesses to Matt that she is G-Girl and their sex-life hits new heights (literally). Jenny begins getting jealous of Hannah Lewis, Matt’s coworker played by Anna Faris. Matt actually is getting closer to Hannah and soon breaks up with Jenny. Now, Matt has someone much worse than Jennifer Aniston or Vince Vaughn ruining his life – Matt is the new primary villain to G-Girl.
Along for the ride, providing most of the laughs, is Rainn Wilson of television’s The Office playing Matt’s perverted pal Vaughn Haige. Of course Wanda Sykes, who plays Matt’s fed-up boss has a limited number of funny lines, too. The special effects are not spectacular but are good enough to be believable, even in a scene involving a beached shark.
Forget Kryptonite and possible showmances between celebrities. My Super Ex-Girlfriend offers the best of both worlds and succeeds where two higher-status motion pictures failed miserably. This is one one-night-stand that you won’t regret in the morning. You just might not remember it next week.
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