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My Super Ex-Girlfriend
- Review Date: December 18, 2006
- PG-13
- Genre: Comedy
- 2006
Common Sense Media says
Energetic romantic comedy with sexual references.
Parents say
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Kids say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that while the tone remains light-comedic, the film includes frequent sexual references and images, including jokes about "close" male friendships, effeminate men, and domineering women. Three sex scenes in beds (two comically show beds slamming through walls as superwomen are on top of partners). A character makes repeated sexual remarks about women; a black supervisor at work discusses sexual harassment and feels offended when Matt carelessly calls her "homegirl." Violence is cartoonish and frequent (explosions, robbery ending in gunfire at superbodied G-Girl, falls, slamming through ceilings and walls). Characters drink wine and beer. Villain smokes cigarettes.
What's the story?
When Matt (Luke Wilson) first meets Jenny (Uma Thurman) on a NYC subway, he thinks she's demure and sweet, her head buried in her book, her brown hair straight and simple. And when he recovers her purse from a mugger, he feels empowered, even if he did hide in a dumpster with the purse. But as the newly forming couple walks off down an alley, the camera cranes up to show the would-be robber hanging from a grate four stories up, where Jenny has thrown him. And now you know: Her secret identity is G-Girl, blond superhero and local celebrity.
Is it any good?
Energetic and deliberately absurd, MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND makes fun of comic-book/action movie and romantic comedy conventions. Written by former Simpsons scribe Don Payne and directed by Ivan Reitman, the movie also takes a few jabs at traditional gender roles, not to mention typical anxieties concerning sex and commitment.
There is some spastic violence on the street (cars tossed, spinning tornado effects, buildings broken) as well as the sorts of revelations you might expect for a happy ending. But the film's most delightful element is not special-effected; it's (Eddie Izzard's performance as Professor Bedlam. He's funny, charming, and surprising, this last especially hard to be in a movie so fond of clichés.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about effective ways to "break up" with boy- and girlfriends. How does the movie's comic violence make fun of this usually painful process?
How does the film show that teasing in high school can lead to long-lasting hurt feelings?
How might Jenny have treated her friend Barry more generously?
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I took my 14 year old son to see this movie and I was completetly embarrassed by the continuous sexual inferences. I should have paid much more attention to what the other viewers said and not just common sense media. I went by the 13 and star rating. I have always trusted this site, but I believe this one was a hugh miss.
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I lauged, it was great, good feminist values.
I think people are rediculous to assume that if a movie has sex it is automaticly bad, especially if you don't know how graphic it is/was. I do believe in previewing movies, but once your kid already knows, let them decide what's too much on their own. My Super Ex was mostly emplied, non-graphic, and pointed a humorous outlook at our cultures values. See review from the BBC.
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We Need a New PG15 Rating!
I am a mom, and I saw this movie with a friend of mine. My children were not with me, and I was so glad. While this movie had many funny moments, and I laughed quite a lot, I couldn't help but wonder how this movie was rated PG13 with all the focus on sex, especially sexual intercourse. I have an 11 year old daughter, and like many parents, I have started allowing her to view some PG13 movies. I would have been appalled to have her see this one, though. Much too much of a focus on sex, especially intercourse. Besides the ones that were mentioned in the commonsense review, there is sex performed while G-Girl is flying a mile above ground, and the movie even ends with a valueless sex scene. I don't even know that I would want my 14 year old daughter viewing this movie. The male main character's friend was focused only on sleeping with girls, and some of his comments were utterly tasteless. Not for tween's or early teen's ears and eyes at all.
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Sexual content comparable to the first Scary Movie
This film had a pretty graphic sexual content for a PG-13 rating. The movements are quite explicit.
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Too much for PG-13 not enough for R
There are very few movies that I would say are right on the cusp of an R rating, this is one of them. I had my 13 year old son with me and, being a guy, thought this might be a fun movie. But I was a little put out by the sex scenes. Most movies with this rating show people having sex by rolling around on a bed, kissing, playing soft jazz in the back ground, etc. One of the sight gags in this movie is the girlfriend doing the main character so hard that the bed slides back and forth. Too me that was a little to graphic for my son to see.
But other than the sexual content, this movie was fine for a 13 year old. In fact I think it would be fine for kids 16 and over. What the film makers should have done was go for the R rating and really had fun with the Super Ex-Girlfriend thing, (x-ray vision, etc). But as it is, it's a little much for an early teen.
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OK
It made me laugh but it was not the best movie of all. I don't recamend this to real comedy fans.
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| Studio: | Twentieth Century Fox |
| Director: | Ivan Reitman |
| Cast: | Eddie Izzard, Luke Wilson, Uma Thurman |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Run time: | 95 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | July 21, 2006 |
| DVD release date: | December 19, 2006 |
| MPAA rating: | PG-13 |
| MPAA explanation: | for sexual content, crude humor, language and brief nudity. |
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