Starring: Cameron Diaz, , Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Rated: PG-13
Soon after Carly(Cameron Diaz) finds out her boyfriend Mark(Game of Thrones King Killer Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is a married man, she is befriended by his wife Kate(Leslie Mann). The two then team up with another of his girlfriends Amber(Kate Upton) to exact revenge for his cheating ways.
Billing itself as a revenge comedy the other woman falls short in both the revenge and comedy categories. The lame ideas for revenge include putting laxatives in a drink to induce explosive diarrhea and hair remover in the shampoo. Devoid of any originality a collection of April Fool’s day pranks are what constitutes the majority of the revenge.
The entire premise of the film was doomed when I am expected to believe that Cameron Diaz is still a present day magical beauty, this isn’t 1994 when she was billed as a younger sexier Ellen Barkin. She now looks like an older and dowdier of said actress. Quite simply Crows feet are not meant to be seen at that large a scale.
It’s as if the script was not adjusted for the casting. At one point a very slender Leslie Mann comments how great Cameron Diaz looks and how she is so thin when you can clearly see that Diaz is easily the larger of the two. The third prong in this three pronged misadventure is Kate Upton who dazzles in magazines yet without Photoshop and perfect angles doesn’t translate to moving pictures. (even if you do give her 5 seconds of screen time to recreate the viral sensation that’s was her “cat daddy” video). Its one thing if the films premise wasn’t based off of these three women each having the features that the other is lacking, their personalities are even worse, Mann is annoying, Diaz is conceited and Upton is as dumb as a bag of rocks. This triumvirate of woman fails to together combine into even one woman you could stand to be around.
While Mark is an ass the overboard ending is completely out of place. Particularly given the level of the earlier revenge that was enacted.
Sophomoric humor, forced female bonding and gross exaggeration on the charms of these woman make for a rough viewing. Bypassing any form of logic with a preposterous premise the mistresses unite simply because they thought Mark was single and want to help the wife get revenge. The Other Woman is Short on both ideas and humor. The film is so contrived and unoriginal that not only has every aspect been done before but done better as well.
Grade-47