My Super Ex-girlfriend -

For the first act, the film plays like a standard romantic comedy with a twist. Matt discovers Jenny’s secret and is initially thrilled. Who wouldn't want to date a superhero? The montage scenes of G-Girl saving the city while Matt watches, or the scene where she flies him through the night sky, capture the wish-fulfillment aspect of the genre. But the film quickly pivots to its central conflict. Beneath the spandex and the flight capability, Jenny is neurotic, possessive, and emotionally volatile. She reads Matt’s emails, shows up unannounced at his office, and demands all his time.

The premise of the film is its strongest selling point, acting as a deconstruction of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" trope before that term even entered the cultural lexicon. The story follows Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson), a somewhat nebbish architect who has a meet-cute with a shy, mousy woman named Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman) on the subway. After a clumsy attempt to retrieve her purse from a thief, Matt catches her eye, and they begin dating. My Super Ex-Girlfriend