This is a feel good chick flick; mindless, harmless easy to watch, a few genuine laughs and nice scenery including location, clothes, expensive houses and nice looking men.It delivers about what you'd expect and you won't remember anything about it in a couple days but at the right time these types of movies are just perfect. I didn't want to think to hard, needed an escape and wanted something without violence. Must be why they continue to make these silly movies.Cameron Diaz discovers that the man she's been dating is married and teams up with his wife (Leslie Mann) and another mistress (Kate Upton) to destroy his career and teach him a humiliating lesson in fidelity.Oh, and where has Don Johnson been hiding? He looks fantastic, why isn't he showing up in more things?
... View MoreMark (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.
... View MoreWhat a riot, it has been a while since I have laughed this much watching a movie! The actors had great chemistry and looked like they had a blast working together, the story line was fun and script hysterical! I am sure though, that lots was improvised as the ladies seemed so at ease and naturally funny together. The story line is better than the 'First Wive's Club' as more time was spent on the plotting and scheming of bringing down 'the bad guy' and this makes for some serious laugh-out- loud moments!Now, this movie won't win Oscars and won't be for everyone but watch it if you are looking for a fun, lighthearted, revenge fuelled, mildly slapstick film!
... View MoreI have to say I'm kind of surprised at this film.I definitely thought it was going to be one of those where the best parts were in the trailer. Don't get me wrong, most of the funny parts WERE in the trailer but there were more during the film.Obviously it's not going to be cinematic brilliance but it's something to sit, turn off your brain and be entertained.The cast is okay. Cameron Diaz is pretty much the same character that she is in most of her movies, Leslie Mann's character is sometimes a bit too much during the film; Kate Upton seemed to be there only to be the pretty, younger one.It's an okay film. Good for a once watch but I probably wouldn't watch it again.
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