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My Super Ex-Girlfriend has got to be on the silliest films I have seen in a long while and its not silly funny but silly stupid! I rented it not really knowing what it was about. I am not really sure why I added it to my rental list, I think it was recommended as I film I might like by Amazon when I had rented another film. Well it's the last time I listen to Amazon's recommendations! I sat down to watch the film knowing absolutely nothing about it except the title and the fact that Uma Thurman was in it. Well I think Uma might be regretting starring in it now!

The basic plot of the film (and believe me it is a basic plot!) is that Matt Saunders (played by Luke Wilson) doesn't have much luck with women. He sees a girl he likes on the subway and plucks up the courage to try and chat her up. He doesn't succeed but when her bag gets stolen and Matt steps in to try to recover it she changes her mind and agrees to go on a date.

This girl is Jenny (played by Uma Thurman) and seems at first to be a fairly normal girl, slightly neurotic and a little eager but Jenny hides a big secret. She is in fact G-Girl, a superhero who with a quick spin turns from a plain brown haired, glass wearing, sensible clothed Jenny to blonde, sexy G-Girl off to save the world or at least New York.

All this is fine and things are going well although Matt does get a little suspicious when she keeps disappearing to the bathroom when they are in a restaurant (she's off to save a catastrophe from happening) but her super powers in the bedroom keep him interested despite her increasingly strange behaviours. So all is well until Jenny starts to get jealous of Matt's relationship with a colleague and he decides that her possessiveness and neediness not to mention her temper is too much to handle.

Matt decides things aren't working out and decides to split up with G-Girl and unsurprisingly she doesn't take it very well! Imagine the revenge a dumped girlfriend might do and then multiply it by super powers. Let us just say she's not a happy bunny and she's not going to just forgive and forget, she's going to make him pay. Running alongside this story is the villain of the film Professor Bedlam played by Eddie Izzard who is out to rob G-Girl of her super-powers, why does he want to do this, is he really a villain and will he succeed? And do you care?

As you might have gathered already I didn't really enjoy this film. For me it was just completely unbelievable. Now there are plenty of films with super-heros

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