My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Studio: 20th Century Fox Distribution
Rated: PG-13
Cast: Luke Wilson, Uma Thurman, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Wanda Sykes
Director: Ivan Reitman
WorkNameSort: My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Our Rating: 1.50
Vile. Nasty. Crude. Base. Ugly. Everything that’s bad about 21st-century gender relations can be found in Ivan Reitman’s dopily noxious Super Ex, which uses comic-book exaggeration as the pretext for wholesale pandering to the Springer set’s worst prejudices. Sheepdog-faced Luke gets to be the Wilson brother you hate the most this week, standing up for a fella’s right to fuck and run as his building-designer character nails and then dumps a bespectacled mark who just happens to be the all-powerful G Girl (Uma Thurman). No, we never find out what the ‘Gâ?� stands for, but we are treated to plenty of scenes of cataclysmic retribution when the already unstable dumpee goes crazy bitchy ‘ just like they all do, see, only thank God they can’t hoist our cars into the stratosphere whenever they want! Aside from a just-OK supporting performance by Eddie Izzard, the movie seems to exist to insult men, women and even superheroes ‘ given the depiction of G Girl as a resentful protector who’d rather grill her date about that woman in his office than save the lives of thousands of New Yorkers. Come back, Meteor Man; all is forgiven.
This article appears in Jul 26 – Aug 1, 2006.