When respectable actors like Luke Wilson and Uma Thurman team up to make a 'one-trick' comedy like this, you have to wonder what they saw in the script (or whether they'd actually seen a script) in the first place.

Unless, of course, their respective roles appealed because she always wanted to be a superhero while he always wanted to sleep with one!

Wilson plays the not-good but not-bad looking 'nice-guy' Matt, who's so unlucky in love he takes relationship advice from a borderline stalker that he calls his friend (because continual harassment of the opposite sex is funny).

Matt gets a lot more than he bargained for when he approaches shy but alluring Jenny (Thurman) on the tube. She appears to be nothing more extraordinary than an "uptight librarian on the outside... ready to rumble on the inside" but, a couple of neurotically-charged dates later, he discovers her true identity.

For Jenny is no ordinary girl... etc etc... surely you know where this is headed... Unfortunately for Matt, she makes up for all her outer-strength and invulnerability with more inner-vulnerability than an undercooked egg-yolk, and he finds riding with a super-psycho far too much for a mere mortal to take.

But what would happen if one were to dump a supreme-being balancing on the edge of stability... someone able to fly, lift cars and etch rude words into your forehead with her thermal vision? The answer should be obvious: very carefully or not-at-all.

However, as you might well imagine, Matt doesn't seem to possess this piece of common-sense and the vast majority of the comedy comes from finding an answer to that question.

As such, the film succeeds in what it sets out to do... find humour in the given (albeit silly) situation. It's a shame then that a good idea, which might well have suited a 20-minute-long TV show such as Bewitched, is stretched to breaking point over a feature length film.

For a target audience of twelve-year-olds and their fun-loving 'grown-down' counterparts, it often works and could even be described as quite funny but calling something 'super' with a knowing smirk is about as sophisticated as the gags get.

If you can look past the blaringly obvious plot and the just-for-laughs style then there's enough to enjoy, but you may want to disengage your brain to get the most out of the ninety minutes' entertainment.

It is supposed to be light-hearted and fun after all.

Dominic Bloch