One needy superwoman

It's been a long time since Ivan "Ghostbusters" Reitman made a successful film. But this energetic, quite naughty comedy is a slight return to form. Uma Thurman stars as Jenny the G-Girl, who can do anything Superman can in the way of saving the world but can't, like Clark Kent, find love in ordinary clothes.

Matt (Luke Wilson), a shy office worker falls for Jenny hook, line and sinker, but the woman who can fly, lift cars and burn holes through steel with her thermal powers also breaks the bed, and almost him, when they make it together. There is also her long-lost love (Eddie Izzard's Professor Bedlam) to consider. He is out to get her.

Some good special effects and an ironic edge carry the movie for most of the way. Thurman and Wilson are fine partners, too, the one neurotic and needy, the other suitably amazed when he discovers G-Girl can pick him up and fly him over the city, hoping to make him a member of the Mile High Club. The comedy palls a little towards the end, but mostly it's fun.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Cert: 12A