girlofprey | My Super Ex-Girlfriend. And.....some Veronica Mars

My Super Ex-Girlfriend was quite disappointing. Even though I was prepared for it. Mostly because it had some really interesting stuff, and they just didn't do anything with it! The superhero bits were way better than the 'omg I am an ordinary guy, my super ex/girlfriend is crazy!' parts. Which were mostly just sexist jokes, and a bit over-egged for just 'yes, boys are rubbish, but what are you going to do?' stuff. Also, the main guy was not nice. Or sympathetic. Or interesting. At all.

I think possibly they tried to make a movie about 'an ordinary guy' with a super-girlfriend, rather than an actual, y'know, character or story. Or anything. Also, it wasn't terribly funny always. Which was sad.

But there were still good bits. Basically there was Matt Saunders, who hasn't had sex in a while (yes). He meets a buttoned-down frumpy chick on the tube, sort of gets her purse back when it's stolen, and so scores a date with her. She's bit stressy and odd, but his shallow friend advises him to try to get some sex out of it anyway. So he does, but omg, a supervillain captures him! That supervillain is Eddie Izzard. Jenny (frumpy chick) decides she should reveal she is in fact G-Girl, saviour of the city! Which pleases Matt. Until he decides he's actually in love with Hannah, a girl from his office (played, non-annoyingly, by the girl out of Scary Movie), and tries to break up with her. At which point Jenny/G gets upset. And puts his car into orbit and throws a shark at him. Oh yes. Professor Bedlam (the supervillain) then goes to Matt and offers him a way out - with Matt's help, he'll permanently relieve G-girl of her powers. Which Matt agrees to.

And then shit goes down.

Things I liked:

They made some very odd choices with Uma Thurman's wardrobe, but then they sorted it out and she was THE PRETTIEST THING EVER. Omg. I love her.

I LOVE G-GIRL. SHE THREW A SHARK.

I liked all the characters. Except for Matt. I liked Hannah. I liked his shallow friend (red glasses! ee!), and not just because he was creepy Arthur from Six Feet Under. They were so much better than Matt. Huzzah.

Eddie Izzard! He has so far improved from Mystery Men! He was the best thing in it. He was a supervillain, but lived in a house, and had mechanical spying pigeons. And some sexual tension with everyone. And he loved G-girl! Sometimes it was a bit 'WHY are they putting those two together???', but mostly it worked, they were friends in high-school and almost did sex before she got super-powers, even though young!Barry had a completely different build to Eddie, but it was great, and I have another het pairing apparently. But it is superhero/supervillain love, and he watched her having sex with Matt at first and it was HOT LIKE WHOA, and eeee! And he was all 'no, it's the ham' and 'please stop calling me Barry', and yay. GO EDDIE IZZARD.

There was that horrible bit at the end, where it looked like (in a 'shoot the bitch!' attitude) they were going to strip Jenny of her powers, and, y'know, DEPRIVE THE CITY OF IT'S SUPERHERO SO SHE WOULD STOP BUGGING SOME GUY. Even though she did try to kill him. Um. Anyway. It looked like that, but instead we got TWO super women, when Hannah got powers too. And there was a super-catfight, and in the end they were both superheroes, and Matt and Barry had to stay and hold their bags. And it was GENERALLY WIN.

I like how they twisted the usual superhero stuff, like instead of Jenny's alter-ego being amiable and angsty, she is BATSHIT CRAZY. Because being a superhero is STRESSFUL, YO (I imagine). And I liked how Barry was believable as a supervillain and as an ex-nerd whose best friend abandoned him when she got super and pretty. Who he's ALWAYS LOVED, by the way. But as I said they just didn't develop it enough, and it could have been so great but instead was all cock jokes, and ARGH! Frustrating.

All of these things are stuff that could be sorted out and refined and vastly improved by a good fandom with some good writers. But I am not fool/optimistic enough to expect that.

So in conclusion, it was not the greatest of films (by a LONG shot) and not even as funny as it could have been, but had an interesting idea and some great bits, and I will probably buy the DVD when it comes out anyway, and put it in the 'Rubbish Superheroes' section of my DVD ~~pile~~ collection. Just because.

Veronica Mars episode 3 brought the girlslash, like woah. From Veronica and Jackie's bitchy competitiveness to step-Cordelia wishing for a girltoy. And Logan/Veronica/anyone is kind of hot at any rate. And in Episode 4 and 5 good!Veronica seemed to come back a bit. And I love Keith. And Lamb. But not Duncan. Wallace had angst, and a random father. That was great. But none of it stops episode 4 from having been VASTLY VASTLY improved by a single scene full of Logan, who I LOVE, and oh.

I will try to stop having (very similar) thoughts about it until the end of Season 2 now. But people are still not writing Logan/Aaron. This is sad beyond belief. It would be nice if you could just step into a parallel universe where everyone was writing everything you wanted, in all your favourite fandoms. But no such luck.