My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

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Reira-chan
actually better than expected! 11 years 4 months ago
Carota
stupid 12 years ago
Siskoid
While on the face of it, My Super-Ex Girlfriend presents as a pretty standard romcom with a superhero twist (and I'm into genre-bending enough to enjoy the premise), it's much too misogynistic to work as a good example of its component genres. Because basically, it's saying women shouldn't have super-powers because they're too emotional. Uma Thurman's G-Girl in fact becomes pretty villainous after she gets dumped, and is on the verge throughout her relationship with Luke Wilson. We also have to deal with a subplot in which Wilson's boss, Wanda Sykes, keeps accusing him of sexual harrassment and the film taking the position that it's all hysteria, while best friend Rainn Wilson is a loser-player who lies to women to get them into bed. Somehow, the character is still one of the few bright spots. Similarly, G-Girl's "revenges" make for fun gags, but they're hardly motivated the way we'd want them to be. Girls are just crazy and that's all there is to it. But whether men, women or non-binary, all the characters in this thing, normal motivations and reactions to things escape their grasp. 1 year 11 months ago