In this week's edition of Blurb Racket—the Gelf feature in which we take a close look at those critic blurbs that are a fixture of ads for movies—see breakdowns of blurbs for Lady in the Water, Miami Vice, You, Me and Dupree, and more. This week's Bogus Blurb of the Week comes in an ad for My Super Ex-Girlfriend:
 Paul Antonson |
Actual line: "For a movie about an unstable superhero who dresses like Carrie Bradshaw after a gamma zap, 'Ex-Girlfriend' is cleverly attuned to the real-life nadirs of big-city psychosexual dynamics…
Charming as he is, it's hard not to thrill at the sight of G-Girl tossing a shark through Matt's window."
That's right. The word "clever" originally described how well-attuned the movie is to psychosexual dynamics while the word "charming" was used to describe a character. Let's put them together to describe the overall movie!
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