Friday, August 11, 2006
MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND
Featuring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard
Brief Synopsis: A guy helps a woman in distress and ends up dating her. The breakup is a little tougher than he ever anticipated...
Comments: I thought the premise of this film was quite good and wondered why nobody had ever done it before. Well sometimes a good idea should just remain an idea. It was the only film I caught on my trip back to England and it was something I wanted to see because I thought they might have cut scenes out of the Malaysian version. Well in the end, I wish I didn't really bother!
I could have walked out halfway through the film and not missed anything. Whilst Uma Thurman actually does very well as a neurotic superhero, there's just no spark in the film. It was always going to be intriguing to see how a female superhero hooks up with a guy - the amount of bedroom action portrayed in the film would surely have broken Matt's manhood! - and I was just as curious how badly a superhero would take a breakup and whilst that was a bit fun, the film never took off.
The characters are rather sterotyped and you find yourself not caring about them at all. The plot gets sillier and sillier and rather camp (befitting Eddie Izard as the baddie). I know it's not supposed to be serious but it's silly without being funny (Austin Powers is silly but manages to be entertaining). One example is the reconciliation between G-girl and Profession Bedlam (great names!) during a fashion shoot - it's simply ridicious.
Am I being too harsh? Maybe women who have had breakups/bad relationships with men will enjoy it? Maybe they could post what they wanted to do with their ex-boyfriends if they had superpowers in the comments section below!
Things to learn from this film: Having superpowers doesn't mean you are emotionally stable - although I guess that could be said of every baddie in every superhero movie.
Rating: 3.5/10
Featuring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard
Brief Synopsis: A guy helps a woman in distress and ends up dating her. The breakup is a little tougher than he ever anticipated...
Comments: I thought the premise of this film was quite good and wondered why nobody had ever done it before. Well sometimes a good idea should just remain an idea. It was the only film I caught on my trip back to England and it was something I wanted to see because I thought they might have cut scenes out of the Malaysian version. Well in the end, I wish I didn't really bother!
I could have walked out halfway through the film and not missed anything. Whilst Uma Thurman actually does very well as a neurotic superhero, there's just no spark in the film. It was always going to be intriguing to see how a female superhero hooks up with a guy - the amount of bedroom action portrayed in the film would surely have broken Matt's manhood! - and I was just as curious how badly a superhero would take a breakup and whilst that was a bit fun, the film never took off.
The characters are rather sterotyped and you find yourself not caring about them at all. The plot gets sillier and sillier and rather camp (befitting Eddie Izard as the baddie). I know it's not supposed to be serious but it's silly without being funny (Austin Powers is silly but manages to be entertaining). One example is the reconciliation between G-girl and Profession Bedlam (great names!) during a fashion shoot - it's simply ridicious.
Am I being too harsh? Maybe women who have had breakups/bad relationships with men will enjoy it? Maybe they could post what they wanted to do with their ex-boyfriends if they had superpowers in the comments section below!
Things to learn from this film: Having superpowers doesn't mean you are emotionally stable - although I guess that could be said of every baddie in every superhero movie.
Rating: 3.5/10
