Johnny Saturn

Hello, Folks:

In my quest to watch and view all superhero films and review them, I made the leap and watched “My Super X Girlfriend.”  Well, just so you know going in, this is a romantic comedy sort of presented in the superhero genre.  Normally, you couldn’t get me to watch a romantic comedy, not even if you used hell hounds and flaming whips, but I made an exception because of the “superhero” quotient.

As romantic comedies go, this wasn’t a bad movie.  The writing was solid, and the actors were very likable.  Uma Thurman rocks anything she appears in, and her role as the jealous, manipulative, spurned superheroine worked pretty well.  Luke Wilson is likable, he has a great sense of timing, and he’s easy to relate to.  Eddie Izzard, playing the mad scientist Doctor Bedlam, was electric every time he was on screen.  I had pleasant flashbacks of his role in “Mystery Men” as Tony P., a Disco-themed gangster.

As superhero movies go, there wasn’t a lot to grab onto.  The special effects were typical and journeyman level good.  The standard superhero gags, about alliterative names, secret lairs, meteor-spawned origins, etc., were a bit thin.

I’m not sure what to grade this.  As a superhero film, it was a C-.  As a reasonably entertaining romantic comedy, I would guess it rates a solid B.  (I don’t watch many comedies or romantic comedies, so I’m not the best judge on this.)  If you simply get a kick out of watching Uma Thurman and Eddie Izzard do their things, then it’s worth watching.  Still, I have to say, as Uma Thurman movies go, this is no “Kill Bill,” or “The Producers,” or even “Baron Munchausen.”

Scott.