“My Super Ex-Girlfriend” could have been a great movie, but instead it falls into a mediocre attempt at being a good movie.

The film tells the story of Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson), an average guy who has a history of dating “crazy girls,” according to his buddy Vaughn (played by the hysterical Raine Wilson of “The Office”). When Matt spots a cute looking igrl on the subway, he asks her out and after getting her purse back from a mugger, she agrees to go out with him. The girl (played by Uma Thurman) is Jenny Johnson by day, G-Girl the superhero by night. But soon Jenny gets possessive and jealous of Matt’s co-worker, Hannah (Anna Feris), so he dumps her. Suddenly G-Girl turns nasty and begins to make Matt suffer. Throw in to the mix Jenny’s high school boyfriend, from when she was just normal Jenny, who is now Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard), and you get a little too many plot lines to keep track of.

The film could have been so much better if it had focused more on the little things we see in the beginning. For example, when jenny and Matt go out for the first time, we hear the sirens she hears wailing in the distance. She looks pained, trying to decide if she should go save the world, or if she should stay and enjoy her date. If the movie had pressed on this, it may have been stronger character wise and provided more concrete conflict for the audience.

And it doesn’t make sense that jenny goes crazy after Matt dumps her. As her says to her in one scene, “I thought you were supposed to be the good guy.” And I was thinking the exact same thing. I don’t think we’d ever see Spider Man or Superman decide to go nuts if Mary Jane or Lois Lane dumped them. In a matter of speaking, Jenny’s change in behaviour could just be a man’s way of showing that women really do go nuts if a man breaks up with them.

We learn where Jenny got her powers from, a rock in a meteor shower when she was a teenager, and when Professor Bedlam tries to get them back from her so he can have his Jenny back, it’s a shame that doesn’t stick, as it would have been nice to see her accept who she is at heart, because it seems like she never really did.

There are a few laughs, but overall the film feels like it’s a man’s fantasy come true. After all, when Jenny gets her powers she changes into a blonde, from a brunette, gets perky, bigger breasts and no longer needs her braces. When she goes back she returns to her “frumpy” roots. I don’t know about you, but a superhero shouldn’t have to be drop dead gorgeous to save the world, it would have been just as believable if she had stayed the way she was.

“My Super Ex-Girlfriend” may entertain men who believe women are crazy when you dump them, but don’t rent it with your current girlfriend – she won’t be amused.






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