The Other Woman
The Other Woman
PG-13 | 25 April 2014 (USA)
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After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.

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dylandesign

Dressed up as a comedy movie, the narrative surrounds three grown adult women who attempt to resolve an affair by playing childish pranks and eventually driving the man to self harm and bankruptcy.Instead of speaking with the cheating husband about the affairs, our female protagonists think it funny to... Involuntarily alter his body by overdosing his drinks with female hormones.Dilute his shampoo with hair removing cream, causing him to lose his hair.Flush his toothbrush in the toilet...Pour dangerous amounts of laxative into his drink at a restaurant.Have a drag queen sexually assault him without consent.All the while, the women are portrayed as strong supportive characters, with a cringey slow-motion beach shot where they all hold each other as if to say 'yeah girl power! we're all in this cruel vendetta until the end!'.After the slew of assaults upon his person, they climax by confronting him, causing him to have a nervous breakdown, and they literally stand around watching as he breaks his nose and then trips into a glass pane that shatters and cuts him up. They literally just stand there watching. Nobody offers to check if he's okay or call an ambulance. I guess that's okay because he's a man.The worse thing about this movie is that it is NOT a good portrayal of women, and there is something seriously wrong with society if we do find this funny.

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aech-02177

Mark (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau from Game of Thrones) is a millionaire businessman married to Kate (Leslie Mann) and is having simultaneous affairs with Carly (Cameron Diaz) and Amber (Kate Upton). Carly accidentally runs into Kate and both come to the horrible realization that Mark is an cheating reprobate. They meet up with Amber and plot their revenge on him. You can see where this is going. A common issue with modern Hollywood romantic comedies is how to appeal to men and women. Here, the movie tries to incorporate feminist themes but also tries to get men in by casting a hot woman and have a whole scene dedicated to flaunting her shapely body a la Bo Derek. The guys will have to wait until halfway through the movie to see Kate Upton's "famous" bikini scene. So the movie has no idea what kind of audience it wants. All of the characters in this movie are horrible. None of them came across as likable and I wanted them all dead. The acting isn't much better. Diaz clearly phoned in her performance. Anything for a paycheck, I guess. Mann was easily the most annoying person in the whole movie. Upton can't act. All she does is look so perfect all the time and be everything Diaz and Mann are not. Waldau was okay, nothing special. Nicki Minaj was terrible. She plays Diaz's supportive best friend and she constantly talked like she was rapping onstage. I couldn't understand half of what she said. Don Johnson, what are you doing with your life? Even more baffling is that the director is Nick Cassavetes (son of famous actor and filmmaker John Cassavetes). Hollywood has a seriously twisted view of female empowerment. It seems to think that being a strong woman means being just as cruel and spiteful as men. The three female leads decide to punish the guy through public humiliation. If this movie was about three men who get their revenge on a woman the same way, it would have stirred up legitimate controversy. This story could have worked, but Hollywood ruined it with this unpleasant, mean-spirited comedy that paints all men as cheating pigs and all women as shallow, co-dependent halfwits with daddy issues. The Other Woman hurts the cause for female empowerment a whole lot more than it helps.

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Harold Hardrade

Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau not able to repair the plot. I not support cheating... but I think real cheaters only laugh at the moments of this film. Why? Let me to introduce the character of our Gold Lion: Mark King (name describe the character trope) Mark King is a business man... decent, tall, handsome, shrewd and looks-like a romantic-film type man by always wearing full business or using the rolled up shirt style. He is DEFINITELY not cautious or overthinking. Mark King's flaw is not over-cheating but his insane foolery. Mark cheating his wife with two women. This is a fair set, I believe harmed, abused or bullied woman may enjoy his downfall as a temporary cure to their problems. Mark works as a regular man, maybe low-cunning in the script, but he is dumb. He types different woman on his ******** account, lie to travel to golf or a business trip. (typical American cliché): Mark however had maybe two chance to redeem himself, but all may be ended in bittersweet. If he told, that the papers for the illegal companies signed by his wife, then the wife surely hates him, even Mark told him, that it made for their wealth. No way for the previous events... - Mark is an evil man... boastful females can look down the people by that fictional or real character's attitude. Their hateful arrogance in that way is shredding the mind. BUT, if Mark stick on his wife side and when he failed to broke the law, his wife may excuse him and she can visit him in the prison! It also been a somewhat downer ending. - Mark cheating even Kate Upton's meaningless character. He is a "playboy" man with "playboy" attitudes and desires: More cars, more women and more wealth. I feel sorry to Leslie Mann's character, she is trapped.In fact the characters of Nikolaj-Coaster, Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton and all are meaningless ones are paper-thin and without depths. I not give it to a 1/10 rating, because the core of the plot is logical. A skin-deep man cheated his wife three times, also protect himself bad falsehood... like golf match, business trips or incoming calls from co-workers. He provided his position by signing the papers with his wife. Sorry Leslie Mann... your character is dumb too... I even realized it now. SHE definitely not read the papers or speak about this? A fool, a blinded fool. When they in a serious situation (several times) a woman speaks about something and the other two around him begin the natter. This makes the film non-serious! Right... Mark and Leslie Mann's character are in the dead end, because of the plot, somehow for the law of ugly-trashy enjoyment the redhead will become the main protagonist. In a logical film, Mark should be taken to prison by broke the law and Leslie Mann will require some intelligence uplift, because her dizziness and dumbness caused her downfall, even if she able to create business ideas. Her kind nature are irrelevant now. Cameron Diaz... healthy in appearance and bad in acting. Seriously, she feels herself old... the film even jokes it, as he always compare herself the youth in an uncomfortable way. Her character is a fake-lawyer architecture woman, by the way fake-lawyers also go the prison? What about that line of story? All people just ignore her? (LET'S CALL HER LAWYER FURTHERMORE) OK right? He is easily deceived by a cheater, while she not met the wife. Where she taken her degree? She is blind? She should have suspect it by somehow, if the film motivations and other background things were made it properly. Kate Upton is believable than a lawyer, even a fool (but maybe richer) man can deceive a naive youngster. Return to the lawyer. She is a maniac! INSTEAD OF TELL THE POLICE about situation, he begins to plot a CHILDISH revenge in an Adam Sandler level. And when the another no- name wife's brother tell him some advice, she replies: Leave your silly man logic... MAN LOGIC? Tarnation... that character is awful, she spits the eye of the reasonable! The revenge plot and the all other party scene with the sun-burnt terrace is simply awful. Man logic... people should know, that in the cover of the no-depths of the lawyer, there are hidden personality with the disdain of different people. A greedy, satanic, envious, avenger and boastful personality. For the rule of why not, she befriending the naive, kind, dumb, needy and silly-smart wife. The end of the film with that old man is lame and awful. Kate Upton's character is only for fan service. She only served as a third cheated person. Her "jokes" not improved the film. The "punishment" is maybe funny for those, who grown up with Adam Sandler, but in real life they are desperate and childish. The office scene is wrong, even it has a potential, where even Mark's boss invited by the women, but this scene ended with Adam Sandler jokes. Right... the end is Euphoria ending, everything is happy except Mark, enemy is out and the princess saved. Beautiful? Only for the fools! Logical? No! I can tell an alternate version: - Mark cheated his wife, wife and the lawyer take this to the court. They deal with the economic end of the problem (in the film it is done, even it is sketchy and we not see, how they do it CORRECTLY) and Mark went to prison, without burlesque- themed wall fails and life-dangerous pranks, however no one can proof that... maybe except that a skilled one begins to investigate, they surely gets on caught. But please... they are adult people, adults do not needed to act like stupid peasant women from the 9th century.Overall: 4/10 - Jaime/Nikolaj is a fine actor, even in this nothing-role - Leslie Mann is likable, even with her serious flaws.The others are nothing in this film, sorry.

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peterjamesday

what a waste of time, the plot seemed a good idea, the actresses seemed a good choice, but how anyone can laugh out loud at this garbage is beyond me. All involved must have been working for a pay check, no talent was involved , simply going through the motions , doesn't even make it as a Rom com, over the top acting and a rubbish script.... Cameron Diaz is usually good, but this was below par, the love rat was dreadful and I felt no sympathy for him, but I guess I wasn't supposed to, so that one thing worked in the movie, and now I'm just typing to fill up ten lines so this review is acceptable to IMDb So to summarise, it was rubbish, oh and return to sender is crap too...

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