Movie Report: "My Super Ex-Girlfriend"

When A-list actors make B movies, what is there for the B-list actors to do?

And this is a B flick - just with a higher budget. Uma Thurman plays mild-mannered Jenny Johnson, who by night is G-Girl, a superhero who protects New York with seemingly unlimited power. She's invulnerable, flies, has super speed and heat vision, can deflect nuclear missiles and chill your drink with her breath -- Superman might have trouble besting her, and he certainly doesn't have her fashion sense. Luke Wilson is Matt Saunders, the chump who gets involved with her.

And Matt is apparently missing that little voice in the back of your brain that screams "RUN! THIS WOMAN IS BATSHIT CRAZY! YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE SEX WITH HER -- YOU SHOULD RUN!!!!"

Because even before he finds out about the whole G-Girl thing, Jenny is insecure, whiny, needy, suspicious, demanding, neurotic -- pretty much the perfect storm of a psycho girlfriend. She's not even that good of a superhero -- you get the feeling she just doesn't have enough imagination to be a supervillain. So when he finally wises up and tries to dump her, yeah, it gets ugly.

This is a cute movie, but not a great one. It's a "watch it on Sunday afternoon when you're bored" movie. There's some good bits -- the trouble with superheroine sex, what G-Girl does to Matt's car. The bit with the shark is the best thing in the movie. Eddie Izzard does his best with limited material as Doctor Bedlam, G-Girl's nemesis, and Rainn Wilson is funny as Matt's chauvinistic best friend. But I'd wait until cable.