My Super Ex Girlfriend 2006

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: My Super Ex-Girlfriend, despite a couple of amusing moments and the presence of The Office's Rainn Wilson, never really takes off. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: My Super Ex-Girlfriend, simply by having a genuinely funny idea at its core, is one of the summer's better comedies, and director Ivan Reitman and the cast give it a straight-faced silliness. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: My Super Ex-Girlfriend sets the cause of psychotic superheroines back about 30 years. The movie roils with more unexamined hostility towards women than a roomful of Taliban clerics. Read more

David Germain, Associated Press: This comedy is so unfunny, it's like director Ivan Reitman and company had their senses of humor tranquilized from guzzling kryptonite lattes. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The movie's too slapdash to keep its characters consistent, but this has its moments. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: There's a funny idea here, but you might not know it from Don Payne's script, or, for that matter, from Ms. Thurman's performance. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Everything about My Super Ex-Girlfriend feels clumsy and cut-rate. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Most of the jokes are left flapping like a fish on the line, delivered with zero energy by the leads... Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: If anything, it's too airy and tends to be forgotten as soon as the lights go up. But it's certainly pleasant enough while it's on. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie is a dude's one-way fantasy tinged with an element of fear. It's unfortunate that the premise falls so comfortably along trite gender lines. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: For a movie about an unstable superhero who dresses like Carrie Bradshaw after a gamma zap, Ex-Girlfriend is cleverly attuned to the real-life nadirs of big-city psychosexual dynamics. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Director Ivan Reitman, who's been busting our guts since Ghost Busters, stirs a high-concept stew of Fatal Attraction meets The Incredibles. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Wilson does his callow good-guy routine (if you close your eyes you'd swear he was his brother, Owen) and Thurman looks as if she'd rather be stalking prey in Kill Bill. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Hiding in My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a clever conceit that never gets to reveal itself fully. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Directed by Ivan Reitman with the same loopy amiability he brought to hits like Ghostbusters, Junior and Dave in decades past, it is a solid summer confection with no pretensions. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: ...A movie that would rather tweak male paranoia than liberate a nerdette terrified of her powers. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: My Super Ex-Girlfriend dispels any doubt that the philosophy of high concept -- in which a film's entire content can be contained in the title or one brief phase, a la Snakes on a Plane -- is back in vogue. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Funnier than Nacho Libre, more fashionable than The Devil Wears Prada, able to deliver more revengeful thrills than X-Men: The Last Stand in a single scene. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Two lessons learned: Dump a superheroine at your own risk. And animatronic sharks sure have come a long way since the days of Jaws. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: [Thurman] again proves herself an inspired goofball, switching personalities and wardrobes with the quick-change precision of Christopher Reeve in his prime. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Mostly, MSEG is one of those movies that make you ask why: Why was it made? Why did Uma Thurman waste her time? And, most important, why is there 10 bucks missing from my pocket? Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Directed by Ivan Reitman, it's a silly film with so-so CG effects. The main selling point is Thurman's inspired comedic work. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: My Super Ex, directed by comedy veteran Ivan Reitman (the Ghostbuster movies) from a clever high-concept script by Don Payne (The Simpsons), is as cool a summer lark as you'll find. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: For all its many shortcomings, this old-school laugher is a pleasure to sit through. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If you're going for plot, My Super Ex-Girlfriend will disappoint, but if you're going for a light look at aspects of the superhero experience that most 'serious' genre entries ignore, the film delivers. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: The movie is unable to achieve lift-off and transcend the formulaic stuff coming out of Hollywood, despite the perfect casting of Uma Thurman, emboldened by a killer image from Kill Bill, in the title role. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: A less willfully misogynist movie might have made Thurman's double identity the starting place for an exploration of female power, super- or otherwise. Read more

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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: [Ivan Reitman's] funniest movie since Ghostbusters, and a riff on superhero mythology that plays like a mashup of Bewitched (the TV show, not the movie), The Breakup and Fatal Attraction. Read more

Edward Lawrenson, Time Out: At one point, jealous Thurman tosses a live shark into Matt and Hannah's love nest. Unwittingly plunged into this farrago, the shark earns my sympathy. Read more

Scott Bowles, USA Today: Girlfriend skewers both superhero films and romantic comedies. And it does so with surprising deftness; Girlfriend is not only the funniest film of summer; it may be the best superhero film since Spider-Man. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: The fusion of effects-fueled action fantasy with comedy worked well for director Ivan Reitman 22 years ago in Ghostbusters and, less so, five years ago in Evolution. But, it fails to save his latest, My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The two starring performances are spot on. Wilson gets the tone that screenwriter Don Payne so expertly evokes. Thurman is beautiful, fearless and perfectly believable as a superhero. Read more