This movie is diverting enough, but somehow never manages to get above the level of merely diverting, in spite of a cute premise and a delightful performance by Uma Thurman. Ivan Reitman directed, and while his Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies, this one putters along in second gear. The funny moments are spread too thin, and the romantic aspects of the plot are too predictable to elevate this movie above the genre. What I did like was the juxtaposition of superhero abilities onto a person who has a believably unstable personality. Thurman works it for all it’s worth. Yet many of the jokes are geared more toward an adult audience (superheroes have superhuman sexual appetites, apparently), while the premise and goofiness of the rest of the movie feels appropriate for a teen movie.
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I’m upset that you stopped writting movie reviews, because I can never answer people when they ask what I thought of a movie, but you manage to put it into words, so I would be able to just thrust your review at them and point at it wildly exclaiming, “There! That’s what I think!”