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People laughed at the trailer when I saw this in the theater two weeks ago....so you never know, we might be surprised with its numbers this weekend.

"it qualifies as an epic of misogyny, made all the more irritating by pretending to have girl power at its core"

Well that's nothing new. Too bad people keep wasting money trying to push it into new disingenuous shapes.

Those are the kinds of movies where the only humorous bits fit easily inside of a trailer.

I'm looking forward to this, but my tastes are hardly representative of the average movie goer, so I won't be surprised if it bombs.

The Break-Up was better than I expected it to be.
Have no interest in Dupree.
Would rather see Super ExGF than Lady in the Water.

But first, CLERKS 2!

I have no idea if Super-ex is misogynist but if Dakota Fanning's people/parents are cynically telling her to take the, as reported on MCN 'rape' role so that she can win an Oscar...

...that is pure misogyny/child abuse with a capital M.

No other comment needed.

I too liked The Break-Up more than I expected, and I have an inkling to see My Super Ex-Girlfriend even though I'm sure it's crap. I just think the plot is great.

I'm expecting similar numbers from Girlfriend that we saw for Little Man and You, Me and Dupree last weekend. Low 20s, or high teens. Can't see it going above $25mil.

In Australia this week Girlfriend is also opening, but looks like it'll be beaten by the also debuting Jindabyne starring Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne. Saw it yesterday (opening day) and it is absolutely spectacular and brilliant. I'd say it was just a shade off of Lantana, which isn't faint praise at all. Lantana is routinely considered of the the greatest Aussie films ever made.

When Jindabyne makes it to your shores (which it should considering it's Linney and Byrne) y'all should check it out.

Quite possibly the worst trailer I've ever seen, and in its brief duration, I came to the same conclusions you reached for the entire film.

Will be skipping.

Poland, you hit this one pretty much on the head. An epic of misogyny, indeed. I saw it tonight, and beside all the "jokes" that left the crowded audience stone silent (the Statue of Liberty gag especially), I couldn't get past how unlikable the women in this film were.

I thought the film was being clever at first, making Uma's "secret identity" an insecure crazy girl, just as Superman makes Clark Kent to be a bumbling dork. Then it dawned on me, though - Uma's character really is supposed to be like that. It's not a front!

Plus, Rainn Wilson and Anna Faris were so much more interesting than the two leads (even if Anna's character made no sense, as you alluded to).

Re: Dakota Fanning - Tasteless and crass, yes. Misogynistic? Child abuse? Hard to tell without seeing the movie. It sounds exploitative, but those don't sound like the right words quite yet.

Oh, and by the way, how do you "spin" out a fire? I'm not sure of the science behind that one.

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