Bottom line: Being generous, I'd say it was "cute." But I don't think I can recommend it. I think it poked more fun at women (they can by pyscho, watch out!) than it did at superheroes. I wasn't offended by the material as a comics fan, but wonder if I would be if I was a woman. In fact, I think it could've been better if there was MORE superhero jabs and jokes. I don't think folks, as a rule, like seeing/hearing things about anyone's exes (superhero, or otherwise) though, so there's an inherent strike against it right there. It's a negative. Things like that are messy and if you go to a movie, you don't want to see a mess. Riann (The Office) Wilson and Eddie Izzard were SO under-the-top (esp. Eddie. I expected something manic; he seemed bored. Was it because he had to play a straight guy?). The comedy was just so-so. (They did nail one of my sexual fantasies though, which must be the same as someone else's.) I didn't think G-Girl (Uma Thurman)'s costumes (and she had more than one. why?) were all that sexy. Uma herself was kinda sexy in some scenes, but didn't do anything for me in most scenes. In fact, I thought both Thurman and the other Wilson brother looked a mite old and out of shape in some scenes -- so either they were going for realism or it was bad casting, and I suspect the latter. G-Girl didn't seem having ANY fun being a superheroine and it was more like some "sigh, okay, I guess no one else can save the day but me, so here I go" obligation-she-didn't-want chore. The movie had a typical "loose ends tied up/everybody's happy" happy ending. (Now that I think about it, yes, even in the Asian massage connotation way.) But I see no sequel potential here, mercifully.

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