My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a movie that knows exactly what it is. It’s a lightweight romantic comedy. It works as a rom-com and it works as a straight com as well. There are a lot worse ways to spend an afternoon in a multiplex.

Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) is an architect who has a thing for his co-worker Hannah (Anna Farris). But Hannah is happy with her male model boyfriend (Mark Consuelos). So at the urging of his friend Vaughn (Rainn Wilson) he moves on. While on the subway he meets mousy (but still gorgeous) art gallery worker Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman). Their first date isn't the stuff that 'happliy ever after' is made of. Jenny is neurotic and clingy. Reluctantly and against his instincts he continues to date her (they had some super sex). Eventually Jenny/G-GIrl has fallen so hard for Matt that she reveals her alter-ego to him. Still, it's not enough to keep him interested ... especially now that Hannah is available. But breaking up with a superhero isn't easy.

Director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Meatballs, Twins) keeps it light and he keeps it moving. There aren't a lot of plot twists in My Super Ex-Girlfriend, nor is there a lot of character development. What the movie does have are a lot of funny scenes, a lot more funny scenes than unfunny ones. As a romantic comedy, it's heavy on the comedy and that's a good thing. Thurman and WIlson suceesfully carry the film but it's fleshed out with great supporting performances from Rainn WIlson and Wanda Sykes as Matt's boss who is always trying to sniff out instances of sexual harassment.

British comedian Eddie Izzard is just okay as the evil Professor Bedlam. He just never comes across with the intensity that a real super villain should have.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a light and fun movie - a lot funnier than some of the other features out now (The Break-Up and You, Me and Dupree come to mind). It's a decent date movie.