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THE OTHER WOMAN
The Other Woman is a 2014 comedy that does offer a relatively original premise but gets bogged down in predictability, right down to the expected happy ending, but does provide some laughs along the way.
Carly (Cameron Diaz) discovers that the man she' seeing (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is married and after accidentally meeting his wife (Leslie Mann) ends up actually bonding with her through the discovery of another woman (Kate Upton) the rat is seeing which has the ladies working together to get this man's blood.
Melissa Stack's screenplay definitely has flashes of originality as we don't see a lot of comedies about infidelity where the victims bond, I mean we saw Goldie, Bette, and Diane get revenge on their guys in The First Wives Club, but they all had separate guys. These three women find out they're being screwed by the same guy and don't stand for it. Granted, their initial payback seems kind of childish, but the ladies do get down to business even if they take a little too long to do it.
Director Nick Cassavetes hasn't had a lot of experience with comedies and could have used a little help reining in his stars, particularly Leslie Mann, who really grates on the nerves initially but didn't allow that to deter my enjoyment of what was going on. Diaz was surprisingly controlled and Upton actually appeared to have a brain in her head at times. It ain't Lysistrata, but there's fun to be had here.
The Other Woman is a 2014 comedy that does offer a relatively original premise but gets bogged down in predictability, right down to the expected happy ending, but does provide some laughs along the way.
Carly (Cameron Diaz) discovers that the man she' seeing (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is married and after accidentally meeting his wife (Leslie Mann) ends up actually bonding with her through the discovery of another woman (Kate Upton) the rat is seeing which has the ladies working together to get this man's blood.
Melissa Stack's screenplay definitely has flashes of originality as we don't see a lot of comedies about infidelity where the victims bond, I mean we saw Goldie, Bette, and Diane get revenge on their guys in The First Wives Club, but they all had separate guys. These three women find out they're being screwed by the same guy and don't stand for it. Granted, their initial payback seems kind of childish, but the ladies do get down to business even if they take a little too long to do it.
Director Nick Cassavetes hasn't had a lot of experience with comedies and could have used a little help reining in his stars, particularly Leslie Mann, who really grates on the nerves initially but didn't allow that to deter my enjoyment of what was going on. Diaz was surprisingly controlled and Upton actually appeared to have a brain in her head at times. It ain't Lysistrata, but there's fun to be had here.