With two big superhero movies this summer, X-3 and Superman Returns, it seemed almost perfect timing that director Ivan Reitman release a comedy about a super-Uma. The last time we saw Uma Thurman with super powers, she played the very attractive Poison Ivy in the critically mocked Batman & Robin. Luckily for audiences, this film far surpasses what most people consider the worst Batman movie of all time.
Reitman, best known for Ghostbusters and most of the Arnold comedies, brings us a different side of superheros. We know the drama and turmoil most superheros face, and we feel their pain and sympathize with them. Thurman, who plays Jenny Johnson, or G-Girl, is not at all the person we picture when we think of Superman or Batman or even Wolverine. She's actually quite a bitch, excuse my Yiddish, loathes the fact that she has to save people, and abuses her powers. Thurman plays this role beautifully (you really just want to punch her in the face.) Even the super villain, played by cross-dressing, stand-up Brit, Eddie Izzard, is not so much evil as we normally picture them to be. It definitely puts a very interesting insight into super-hero-ness that one never really thought of before.
Frat-pack pretty boy, Luke Wilson plays Matt Saunders, a regular guy with a freaky friend (played by Rainn Wilson, no relation,) who wants nothing more than to get back into the dating circle after a horrible breakup. Through the advice of said freaky friend, Vaughn Haige, he asks out Jenny Johnson on a subway. After an awkward, seemingly one sided relationship, where Matt finds out Jenny's true identity, he sucks it up and tries to end it... peacefully. Of course, as the trailers prove, one does not break the heart of a supergirl and get away with it. Add in the always hysterical (even if she's not doing anything) Anna Faris as the pretty office co-worker, Hannah Lewis, and the wise cracking Wanda Sykes as the boss, Carla Dunkirk, and you get plenty of laughs along the way.
This movie is definitely fun, but nothing majorly spectacular. It is worth seeing to break up the mundaneness of the unsatisfying superhero movies of this year. It's also worth seeing just to see Anna Faris with...... well, I won't spoil it for you. Definitely see this if you're in the mood for a fun, enjoyable comedy this summer. It's entertaining on all levels, although I wouldn't suggest taking the little ones to see it. There are some very awkward sex scenes in it (imagine having sex with a superhero...)
Overall Grade: B
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