Wednesday, November 22, 2006

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Warning: Do not read if you are planning to watch the movie.

I saw My Super Ex Girlfriend yesterday night at the Symphony. It is a nice movie to watch if you want to give your brain a vacation for two hours.

The story line is unbelievable…literally. Luke Wilson and his nerdy needy pal Rainn Wilson are traveling by train when Rainn spots Uma Thurman. She looks spectacularly boring like most train commuters but then hey… she is Uma Thurman and you got to pick her up from the crowd to get the movie going. Apart from that there is no convincing reason why Rainn spots her with her brown toupee, spectacles and makeup less mousy face. Rainn convinces Luke to ask her out which he does quite charmingly only to be met with a ‘No’. Just when you are telling yourself ‘cant a guy take a hint?’ the movie takes a bollywood kinda turn. A bag snatcher snatches Uma’s hand bag and runs out of the stationery train. It was moving I swear, when Uma said ‘No’.

Most of the plot that provides the twists and turns in this movie are unbelievable.

Luke Wilson for one, looks good and definitely not the kind of guy who has no love life and hence is desperate enough to pick up a dull looking Uma Thurman in a suburban train.

Uma Thurman acts like a neurotic, jumpy, crazy woman on their first date, scaring the living daylights out of Luke and the audience. Besides this, the scriptwriter gives Luke enough hints as large as a mental asylums, that Uma Thurman is cuckoo, but he still asks her out for a second time, and you kinda say “he deserved it’ when things turn really bad for him.

Luke’s plan was to get laid and move on, but he makes the cardinal mistake of asking her out again, and Uma promptly falls in love with him. When he tells her that he is not in love with her, she literally hits the roof and makes a hole in the ceiling. She vows to make him pay for the rejection and flies away in a rage through the hole in the ceiling. This, of course happens on the second date.

Uma's character is full of holes, which is good actually as she does a lot of flying around in the air at supersonic speed. Adds to her aerodynamic character. She is sensible enough to appear like Superman and save the city from the stupid catastrophes thought up by the Stunt Director, but she is absolutely stupid otherwise. Perhaps the Stunt Director could have directed the entire film, as the only scenes that make sense are the Supergirl exploits of Uma Thurman. She also looks good only in the movie posters and in her G-girl avataar, losing the brown toupee and spectacles. The stunt director has taste I must say.

Then Luke realizes that he is in love with his sweet colleague Anna Faris, whose nice boyfriend conveniently gets himself caught in bed with three girls to clear the way for Luke. She promptly falls in love with him and they make love. (See didn’t I tell you that Luke doesn’t look needy?). Uma throws a live shark into their bedroom scene…the shark fortunately has better tastes and bites off huge chunks of the furniture in a feeding frenzy. Due to some personal ethics not divulged by the scriptwriter, Uma doesn’t go after Anna even though she should… logically.

Finally an ex boyfriend of Uma devices a glowing rock, similar to the one which made Uma super powerful and makes her walk into a trap set by Luke. Of course he forgets to tell girlfriend Anna not to barge in making a huge scene, which leads to the explosion of the rock making Anna also a Supergirl.

The theater was packed with nine people, out of which two were the ushers, one was a guy who kept gazing into his cellpone, besides five girls...out of whom one kept looking around thinking “I will blog about this”, another kept giggling at everything including the 'Please take care of your belongings in the theater’ slide and the ‘Nokia ad’, and another who was watching the movie like she is watching the 'Schindler’s List’ and another who kept exclaiming “The cheese popcorn is soggy, chat popcorn is spicy and the masala popcorn is too bland” etc. The fifth one is still missing.

Oh yes... before I end this rather long review, please avoid the Ice cream in the theater. It is very good actually, but not advisable to be eaten in the air-conditioned theater or you will end up writing movie reviews on a Saturday night sniffling with cold, cough and fever.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

( This review was written the weekend the movie was released)

22 comments:

Sachin R K said...

I should have a nice weekend ( as long as I dont accidentally go for this movie)

silverine said...

Sachin: That will be a very costly accident indeed :(
:)

Anonymous said...

I beg to disagree.

I saw the movie, and found it extremely realistic. The shark scene especially reminded me about some extremely traumatic moments from my existance. These I will abstain from mentioning here lest I am caught and have to face further repurcursions.

Would reccomend that all men watch the movie. No; it wont improve your lives in any, but might alleviate the burden when you witness someone elses suffering.

On this philosophical note I close.

Anonymous said...

Two words. Uma Thurman.

'nuff said.

Mind Curry said...

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manuscrypts said...

damn the last line... i thought i'd finally travelled in time!! :(

SP said...

Hi sweetheart, I am here, finally :-)

Jagan said...

I think i have read this post before .....

Mind Curry said...

@ sp - finally! about 1000 of us have been waiting :)the star of many a silverine posts...welcome to blogosphere.

SP said...

Thank you Mind Curry for that warm welcome :-)

Ganja Turtle said...

on the new format - "take it!"

Ganja Turtle said...

Echo from mind curry...

we want nu post!
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quills said...

Hey! I have read this post on your other blog..but what the heck!! Any post of yours is worth a second, third read or even more. :)

silverine said...

Quills: Yeah, this is from my other blog, posted here on request by some people as they felt this belonged to this blog. Am on a blog break now :)

Praveen said...

good to see you venturing into film reviews, and as usual, it was a wonderful read :)

quills said...

Girl,enjoy your time off. :) But do come back soon with more of your awesome posts.

glob8 said...

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hope and love said...

come back soooooooon sweetheart..

Anonymous said...

Never knew u do serious movie reviews!

Jim said...

"dull looking Uma Thurman"???

It's official, you've lost your mind.

*grumbles*

pophabhi said...

Excellent review. LOL!
I have to see this.
We have fun like this, when we watch Vinayan movies in TV!

Anonymous said...

the movie was crap. but anna farris was *drool*. ever since i saw the movie 'Hot Chick'. sigh :(