My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a movie that I wanted to see when it came out back in 2006. The reason it took so long to see it was partly because I ended up forgetting about it as time went on. I found it in the library when I went to take some movies out. I prefer watching movies in DVD or Blu-ray form when possible. After all these years I finally saw this movie. To clarify I wanted to see the movie. It looked like it would be fun. I was not super excited for this movie. This was not one that I had to see.

One thing that was nice was the movie was a normal length. It seems like most movies now a days are two hours or more. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind long movies. I have no problem sitting through Avengers or any Marvel movie. I had no issue with Lord of the Rings either. It really depends on the movie, but sometimes it is nice to watch a ninety-minute movie. This clocked in at ninety-six minutes counting the credits of course.

I thought the movie was fun and a bit silly. The basic plot of the film is about a woman who is secretly a super-hero. She meets a guy, and they start dating. They break up and she wants revenge. Like with any super-hero movie there is a villain, which is the case here. This movie did things a little differently than the typical superhero fair. It’s also a comedy so I think it somewhat was supposed to poke fun at the genre a bit as well. Uma Thurman stars as the main character Jenny Johnson whose alter ego is G-Girl. Luke Wilson plays Matt Saunders who is her boy-friend and then becomes the ex she wants revenge on. Eddie Izzard, Anna Farris, and Rainn Wilson round out the cast of characters. Eddie Izzard plays the main villain who has a past with G-Girl. Anna Faris plays a potential love interest for Matt Saunders and Rain Wilson plays the friend who thinks about sex a lot. The movie is cute. It has funny moments and it is a bit ridiculous which I think is what they were going for. There is a scene where G-Girl throws a shark at her ex-boyfriend. This scene was also in the commercials back when the movie was coming out. There were some twists at the end of the film. I am not going to spoil it here for anyone interested in seeing the movie. I will say the twists seemed a bit over the top and seemed a bit fitting for Scary Movie or any of those types of films. That itself I thought was a bit funny since Anna Faris was the star of that franchise by the time this movie came out. This came out a few months after Scary Movie 4 which starred Anan Faris. Of course, this movie has an origin of how Jenny Johnson became G-Girl. It was a simple explanation, but it got the job done. One thing I noticed was this film seemed a bit sexual. There were a fair amount of sexual jokes or scenes not usually in a superhero movie especially at that time. This was back when X-Men & Spider-Man were the dominant superhero-movies. Also, Batman Begins had come out the prior year as well. Those films are not known for a lot of sexual references. Even today, this is not that prevalent in the genre when you look at the MCU. Things have changed a bit when it comes to that. Two examples are Eternals and She-Hulk. I don’t have an issue with it. This is just an observation especially for the time it came out.

Overall, My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a fun little movie. The cast does a good job. I think it gets the job done when it comes to poking fun at the super-hero genre, and this is before the MCU took off and the big superhero boom. I am curious what the movie would have been like if it was made today. Would it still star the cast or have different actors? Uma Thurman was already known for Pulp Fiction, playing Poison Ivy in Batman & Robin, and Kill Bill amongst other films. Luke Wilson was already playing the boyfriend a lot particularly in Legally Blonde and Charlie’s Angels. He just finished starring on the comic book show DC’s Stargirl which ended fall of 2022. This movie was right after The Office started which Rainn Wilson is famous for. If this movie were made today, I wonder if they would go full force on the parody aspects of the genre especially with all of the superhero content out now. I also wonder if this would be raunchier especially since the TV show The Boys is known for pushing boundaries of the genre. I have never seen The Boys, but I am aware the show is a very hard R if not almost border lining X. This movie could have become a straight parody of Marvel or DC or both if they wanted but this movie came out in 2006. We’ll never know what could have been. It just got me thinking about it while watching the movie.