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Created Feb 15, 2010 08:07PM PST • Edited Jun 17, 2015 10:28AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   OK 2.5

   Promising concept, great star, disappointing execution: My Super Ex-Girlfriend is one of those movies where the trailer captures all the worthwhile moments. Pity, since Uma Thurman is incandescent as ever and the trailer was freshly funny when it first appeared.

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

   Uma Thurman is Amazonian in non-supernatural roles, so she’s ideal as G-Girl – neurotically needy super-hero. Too bad for her – and us – the script was far from super.

   Luke Wilson – a natural sad-sack – fits as the guy who has trouble standing up to girlfriends and buddies alike.

   Also strong are Anna Faris and Rainn Wilson as the sweet normal girl and the low-down buddy respectively.

   Eddie Izzard disappoints as the Evil Genius. A lackluster villain is kryptonite to a super-hero movie.

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Barely OK 2.0

    Ivan Reitman made a career directing high production value comedies based on pop culture references. It worked spectacularly well once, with Ghostbusters. Here it doesn’t, even given the endless possibilities of dating-gone-wrong mixed in with superhero stereotypes.

11. Direction Barely OK 2.0

12. Play Barely OK 2.0

13. Music OK 2.5

14. Visuals OK 2.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 1.9

    Female superior takes on new meaning with a superhero girlfriend on top.

17. Sex Titillating 2.4

18. Violence Fierce 1.6

19. Rudeness Salty 1.7

21. Reality

    Supernatural 3.3

    Super silly. That said, any guy who’s had more than a couple girlfriends in his life will recognize the needy neuroses lampooned here.

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.6

23. Biological Supernatural 3.6

24. Physical Supernatural 3.6