Basically that’s the whole plot: Matt Saunders (Wilson) meets Jenny Johnson (Thurman) and they go out a few times but then she gets jealous of his co-worker Hannah (Faris) probably because she’s always all over him, and he realizes that he’s in love with Hannah and wants to dump Jenny, who is actually the super-heroine G-Girl. She goes crazy, and he’s frightened both for himself and for Hannah’s safety, so he agrees to help super-villain Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard) to take away her powers. Honestly Bedlam is the only thing that made it worth watching till the end.
When Matt finally confesses his love and has sex with Hannah, Jenny appears out of the window and throws a big shark in the room. She had gone to school with Barry/Bedlam, and they were very close but after touching a meteor fallen off the sky she gained superpowers and totally changed her attitude towards him, becoming a popular girl and ignoring him completely. He never stopped thinking about her and became a super-villain to... well I don’t know exactly how he planned to win her back by trying to defeat her, but he couldn’t think of anything else.
Matt helps him, luring Jenny to his house - by telling her that he made a mistake and loves her very much, which is not nice, playing with a girl’s heart.. anyway, Hannah shows up too and then Vaughn, and so Matt moves on with the plan uncovering another meteorite that takes away all the radiations in her body. There’s a fight, Matt against Barry, Vaughn against Barry’s man (or men, not sure) and Hannah against Jenny, trying to stop her from touching the rock again, but at the end they both touch it, and they both gain the same super-powers (like superman, they can fly, have super strength, super hearing, super vision, ecc ecc). The two super girls keep on fighting (and the special effects were terrible, maybe on purpose, to be funny, I don’t know), until they crash a fashion show and Matt stops them, telling Jenny that she knows that what they had wasn’t love, and that there is someone else who really loves her, Barry. He confesses what she never even suspected, and now Matt is free to be with Hannah, and Barry finally has his super-Jenny. At the end, Jenny accepts Hannah’s offer to help her with her super-hero duties, while the men wait on land.
There are funny moments, unfortunately there are also many annoying things, starting with Matt:
he approaches Jenny only because his friend Vaughn (Rainn Wilson) told him to do it, and keeps seeing her only because Vaughn basically tells him that she’s easy sex. He never cared for her, other than thinking that she was hot. Who can really blame her if she got pissed!
And his relationship with Hannah! She is going out with a model, and yet she keeps flirting with him even if he doesn’t realize it. They work together, ok, but she’s always around him, joking and touching, giving him gifts and sucking his finger (there was a thorn in it, yeah right).
If they had written it better, it might have been a really funny movie. Both Matt and Hannah should have been written better, and possibly there should have been another actor. Someone funny and believable.
I liked both Thurman and Faris, but my favourite was Izzard. He was funny and cool as the villain, and he was so sweet at the end with Jenny. The best part of the movie.
ITA la mia super ex-ragazza
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