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My Super
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My Super Ex
Girl friend
Review :
'My Super Ex-girlfriend' an enjoyable scorn job
By Subhash K. Jha, Indo-Asian News Service
Film: "My Super Ex-Girlfriend"; Cast: Uma Thurman, Luke
Wilson, Anna Faris; Director: Ivan Reitmen;
Rating: * 1/2
I can see exactly how this 'proposal' project must have been
born. "Guys, Uma Thurman was such a fantastic blast action
heroine in 'Kill Bill'. Let's cast her as a super-girl in a date
movie."
Having got that in place director Ivan Reitman, who specialises
in films like "Ghostbusters", "Dave And Kindergarten Cop" that
place ordinary people in extraordinary postures of
fantasy-induced adventure, goes about making an ostensibly
brain-dead comic romance into a goofy and enjoyable comedy of
terrors.
In the film, the spurned date (Thurman) uses her superpowers to
teach her errant boyfriend (Luke Wilson) lessons in anger
mismanagement.
This seemingly asinine date movie is cleverer than it seems to
be -- the plot turns the "Basic Instinct" premise on its head.
The obsessive woman is akin to Glenn Close but
far funnier since she moonlights as supergirl.
Alternating between saving the world from sundry missiles and
saving her heart from shattering into pieces, Thurman goes from
the ridiculous to the sublime all in one long
shot.
She is a delight to behold if not quite a pleasure for her
petrified boyfriend to hold.
See the film to watch an enormously skilled actress fitting into
modes of outrageously inventive pedestrian situations.
You can't call "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" anything more than an
oddball take on the old adage, "Hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned." But this is nonetheless an enjoyable
scorn job..
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