Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
When New York architect Matt Saunders dumps his new girlfriend Jenny Johnson—a smart, sexy, and reluctant superhero known as G-Girl—she uses her powers to make his life a living hell.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend has a moderately clever high-concept premise—jilted superhero as scorned ex—that gives it a slight novelty edge over standard romcoms, but the execution is disappointingly shallow. The plot meanders without real stakes or comedic escalation, relying on repetitive gags about G-Girl's vengeful antics. The cast (Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris) is capable but largely wasted on underwritten material; Thurman commits gamely but the script never earns her performance. Cinematography is workmanlike NYC backdrop stuff with unremarkable visual effects for the superhero sequences. The ending resolves too neatly and conveniently, wrapping everything up in a way that feels unearned. Overall a forgettable mid-2000s high-concept comedy that squanders its premise.