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"My Super Ex-Girlfriend", is good old fashion fun at the movies and scores a C+...

If one is looking for something weighty, or cerebral, this isn't it. What it is, is a popcorn movie with funny situations, spoofs on superheroes, and it seems the actors had fun making it as well.

I've been an Uma Thurman fan since "Dangerous Liaisons" (88'). Some of my favorites include "Jennifer 8 (92'), "Pulp Fiction" (94'), "Batman & Robin" (97'), "The Avengers" (98'), "Kill Bill" movies (03'-04'), "Prime" (05'), and, "Be Cool" and "The Producers" (05') although either one met with critical success.

"My Super Ex-Girlfriend" brings right up front that question that runs through my mind. How do you get along with a superhero! The change of pace for me is that the superhero is a woman. This year the 'superwoman' that caught my attention is Kate Beckinsale's Selene character from "Underworld" (03') and "Underworld: Evolution" (06). It was fun to see how an ordinary man (Luke Wilson) deals with a girlfriend with superpowers...

The answers to the question, how a relationship survives when your girlfriend is a bit off-the-wall, interdependent, highly possessive, deprived, extremely jealous, and has powers and abilities far beyond those of normal women? Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) is working on getting back into dating after ending a relationship 6 months previous. He's getting constant encouragement and hilarious advice from his best friend Vaughn (Rainn Wilson in a very good and funny performance) on how and why he should get over it and move on. While on his way to work Matt recovers the purse of Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman) from a would-be snatcher. Jenny, turned on by Matt's bravado, encourages a date. Also, Jenny works at an Art Gallery, is a brunette, horn-rimmed glasses with the look of a librarian, and is also... "G-Girl", a striking blonde, with superpowers that rival Superman's (she flies, heat-ray vision, and bullets bounce off!). Jenny maintains her dual identity just as Superman and Clark Kent.

After whirlwind dating and first sexual encounters, Jenny feels that honesty is the best policy and reveals to Matt that she's G-Girl and completely immerses herself in the relationship. Matt soon the discovers the down side as well as the insecurities of Jenny and decides he's had enough. The super wrath of a woman who feels scorned, makes for some outrageously funny moments as G-Girl/Jenny ensures that Matt will pay by making his life absolutely unbearable is hilarious!

The supporting cast round out the movie, including Anna Faris as Matt's co-worker who innocently stumbles into the battle zone G-Girl has started, and Uma Thurman is perfect as the super-heroine, omnipresent, mysterious G-Girl. And, who, unlike most superheroes, doesn't have as her focus to fight for truth, justice, and the American Way, especially when it comes to her love life!

Grade: C+