My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 21, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
16
Negative:
4
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88
USA TodayScott Bowles
My Super Ex-Girlfriend manages to do what the recent crop of crime fighters haven't: show us how much fun it might be to fly, or have super strength, or look buff in spandex. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Casting helps the film work. Uma Thurman is among the few actresses who can pull off this role: the hot, buff, slightly deranged superhero and her dowdy, un-sexy alter-ego. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
As cool a summer lark as you'll find. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Staff (Not credited)
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, My Super Ex-Girlfriend may sound like a midsummer mash of "The Break-Up" and "Superman," but it's more clever and emotionally resonant than that. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
A one-joke movie if ever there was, but the joke happens to be a good one -- a Tracy-and-Hepburn-style battle of the sexes in which Kate can fly and blast through walls -- and director Ivan Reitman (who made Ghostbusters) feels at home with the mix of screwball and supernatural. Read full review
70
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The two starring performances are spot on. Wilson gets the tone that screenwriter Don Payne so expertly evokes: It's a weird sort of self-aware despicability...Thurman is beautiful, fearless and perfectly believable as a superhero. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
The movie doesn't purport to have her stand for all women, just the crazy ones, and as such, G-Girl is pure, soul-cleansing id catharsis. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
This sophomoric mix of the supernatural and screwball from Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) is diverting, cheesy fun, with Thurman's G-Girl as a droll combination of Superwoman and Uber Shrew. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Super Ex does have a certain low-key, adult-contemporary charm. It's almost entirely because of Luke Wilson. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The shaky comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend must have been a dream to pitch: "Fatal Attraction" meets "Wonder Woman," but funny. Read full review
50
PremiereEthan Alter
My Super Ex-Girlfriend was written by longtime "Simpsons" scribe Don Payne, but you wouldn't know that based on the finished film, which lacks the intelligence and sly wit that has kept Homer and the gang on the air for all these years. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
A lot of superwimp gags executed by Luke Wilson grow out of this premise, as do some tacky 50s-style special effects. The movie's too slapdash to keep its characters consistent, but this has its moments. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Most of the gags recycle the same tired old romantic comedy schtick, with special effects. Read full review
50
VarietyRobert Koehler
Uma Thurman, a female superhero with emotional problems and dating issues, doesn't so much fight the forces of evil as battle the wit-starved movie's torpor -- indeed, her perf suggests what the entire film might have been. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
The movie is unable to achieve lift-off and transcend the formulaic stuff coming out of Hollywood, despite the perfect casting of Uma Thurman. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Runs out of fresh ideas about how to make its heroine look nuts. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
My Super Ex-Girlfriend offers us a heroine with phenomenal bone structure and a story with hardly any at all. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Overall, the film's sheer mediocrity prevents Thurman from flying to its rescue. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
If the script for this comic spin on Fatal Attraction were only a tenth as hot as Uma Thurman, director Ivan Reitman might have had something here. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Confusing gender issues like the ones dredged up in Ex-Girlfriend call to mind another Reitman dud, the pregnant-Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy "Junior," and the sophistication level has only slightly improved since then. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
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 full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It's not terrible, but it's mediocre and not much more than a string of cheesy sex gags. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It's "Bewitched" meets "Fatal Attraction," with one funny bedroom scene, but it was a miscalculation to make Thurman the antagonist. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Sour, joyless affair. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle Smith
Uma Thurman plays a flying hero who might as well be called Not Funny Woman. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleToddy Burton
The conventional plot and absence of character dimension will most likely get the better of even the biggest Uma fans. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
You'd have to go back to "My Stepmother Is an Alien" to find a male fantasy/nightmare this off-putting. Read full review
20
Film ThreatFelix Vasques Jr.
Neither fun nor funny. Read full review
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