My Super Ex-Girlfriend manages to do what the recent crop of crime fighters haven't: show us how much fun it might be to fly, or have super strength, or look buff in spandex.

And who better to show that than Uma Thurman, who, with this performance and those in the Kill Bill films, is becoming Hollywood's most dependable female action hero.

Super hot Uma Thurman Credit: 20th Century Fox

Part romantic comedy and part parody of Superman and Fatal Attraction, "Girlfriend" skewers both superhero films and romantic comedies. And it does so with surprising deftness; "Girlfriend" is not only the funniest film of summer; it may be the best superhero film since Spider-Man.

Thurman stars as Jenny Johnson, aka G-Girl, a beautiful caped crusader whose moniker is never explained (Great Girl? G-String Girl?). Jenny may have super powers, thanks to a radioactive meteor she touched as a child, but she's still a woman. A lonely woman.

Enter Matt Saunders, played with typical aw-shucks understatement by Luke Wilson. When Matt saves Jenny from a purse-snatcher (sort of), she agrees to a date, and romance blossoms.

Instead of unfolding in standard boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-wins-girl fashion, the film deconstructs a relationship between two people who never should have gotten together.