My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell.

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Writer:

Don Payne

Stars:

Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Uma Thurman	...	Jenny Johnson / G-Girl
Luke Wilson	...	Matt Saunders
Anna Faris	...	Hannah Lewis
Rainn Wilson	...	Vaughn Haige
Eddie Izzard	...	Professor Bedlam / Barry
Stelio Savante	...	Leo
Mike Iorio	...	Lenny
Mark Consuelos	...	Steve Velard
Wanda Sykes	...	Carla Dunkirk
Margaret Anne Florence	...	Shapely Bartender
Catherine Reitman	...	TV News Reporter
Tara Thompson	...	Young Jenny (as Tara L. Thompson)
Kevin Townley	...	Young Barry
Eva Veronika	...	Elderly Lady
Lawrence Feeney	...	Scary Dude

Storyline

In New York, when the shy and lonely project manager of a design firm Matt Saunders meets Jenny Johnson in the subway, he invites her to date and have dinner with him. Jenny immediately falls in love for him, they have sex and she discloses her true identity to him, telling that she is the powerful superhero G-Girl. After meeting his co-worker and friend Hannah Lewis, the needy Jenny becomes jealous, controlling and manipulative, and Matt follows the advice of his best friend Vaughn Haige and dumps her, breaking her heart. Jenny turns Matt's life into hell, while he has a romance with Hannah. However, the archenemy of G-Girl and former high school sweetheart of Jenny, Professor Bedlam, proposes Matt to lure Jenny to strip her superpowers.

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Plot Keywords:

superhero | supernatural power | superhero spoof | architect | boyfriend girlfriend relationship | 

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Taglines:

Hell hath no fury like a superwoman scorned.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, crude humor, language and brief nudity

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 July 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Super Ex

Filming Locations:

Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$8,603,460, 23 July 2006, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$22,530,295, 12 October 2006

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$38,365,852, 4 April 2007

Company Credits

Production Co:

Regency Enterprises, Pariah, New Regency Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Luke Wilson and Mark Consuelos appeared in All We Had (2016).

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Goofs

The shape and amount of damage caused by Jenny banging the bed against the wall changes between shots - at first it's L-shaped and makes an actual hole in the wall. Once she stops, it's just a straight line and just surface damage.

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Quotes

Matt Saunders: You're that Bedlam guy.
Professor Bedlam: Professor Bedlam.
Matt Saunders: The super villain.
Professor Bedlam: Please, I am not super. I am not a villain. I'm just a regular man like yourself with a thousand times more money, intelligence and taste.

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Crazy Credits

After the animated end credits is a humorous scene with Vaughn in bed with the woman bartender. The rest of the non-animated credits follow this scene.

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Connections

Spoofs Supergirl (1984)

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Soundtracks

The Joker
Written by Steve Miller, Ahmet Ertegun and Eddie Curtis (as Memphis E. Curtis)
Performed by Fatboy Slim featuring Bootsy Collins (as Bootsie Collins)
Courtesy of Virgin Records
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music

User Reviews

Underrated - one of the funniest films of the year

A big surprise, probably because I was expecting it to suck. The reviews were pretty dismissive of it, even though they all seemed to agree that the concept was golden: a man finds out his new girlfriend is a super hero, and finds, when he wants to break up with her, that she's kind of a psycho. I kept expecting it to fall apart, but it never really did. Sure, it doesn't make as much of its awesome premise as it could, and chooses to be short when it might have been better to expand the film's universe. But I can't blame it for that. Uma Thurman is great as the bipolar superhero, G-Girl. And I've discovered, after several years of disliking him, that Luke Wilson can be absolutely perfect when cast as a schlub. He's given two of the best comic performances of 2006 (the other in the pretty much unreleased Idiocracy). I absolutely cracked up at the expressions on his face when he and Thurman first have sex. It's one of the funniest sex scenes ever. My only real complaint is that they make G-Girl a bit too much of a psycho, like almost unbelievably so. Maybe with some background I could have accepted it better. I can forgive its flaws, though, because I had a really good time watching it. Underrated, for sure.