The Other Woman is surprisingly humorous, ironic and entertaining. A unique concept to see a group of women team up against a habitual cheater. Funny film from start to finish and some good chemistry that really shows. 7/10
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A really enjoyable movie.
czwfyd9 September 2022
This movie has become a comfort film for me. The chemistry between the three leads and Leslie Man's acting was perfect. Though it had me cringing sometimes, the comedy was almost always spot on. Nikolai Coster-Waldau played the perfect manipulative cheater and was perfect for the role of Mark, he does one of the best jobs in the movie. Though I would recommend this movie, I wouldn't recommend it to families watching it together. This film although good, it's has its ups and downs. Don Johnson's performance as Frank was not great. I didn't feel that Frank cared enough for his sister, especially when he was told everything. Nicki Minsk's performance as Lydia was also not the best, but she did a fine enough job.
I sympatized with the cheating guy....
auroraboreal195929 May 2018
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I endured it for two reasons, and only because of them I'm giving it a 5 out of 10: The hot guy who plays Jamie Lanister; and the ladies clothes... Superb! The movie itself, not so much... Leslie Mann as the deceived wife is extremely annoying and gross; up to the point that I thought the movie was going to be about her realization of how unpleasantness is not the best way to keep your husband's love. A number of dubiously original or amusing gags ensue to her discovery of 'the other woman' - aka Cameron Diaz in a refreshingly mature and sedated role-; including dipping the husband's toothbrush in urine and mixing his food with copious amounts of estrogen AND a laxative; which in my book classifies at attempt poisoning and not just an amusing way of getting payback. It takes a really bad movie to make a feminist like me kinda empathize with a cheating man; this one achieved it!
And The Razzie Goes To...
blackdoug15 May 2014
This is exactly what it advertises itself to be. At least that was refreshing. It's completely mindless and almost every single character is either extremely shallow or irritating and often both.
As badly as this is written, somehow Leslie Mann makes it work for her character. She manages to make the viewer actually care about her somehow. She simply puts it all on the table and her boldness mixed with her charm manages to rise above awful material. The rest of the cast is, frankly, terrible. The cheating husband is such a dumb cartoon character. Cameron Diaz has grown genuinely unpalatable. Kate Upton tried her gorgeous best but it's clear even the director had to try and cut around her acting shortcomings. I smell a few Razzie nominations for this mess.
As badly as this is written, somehow Leslie Mann makes it work for her character. She manages to make the viewer actually care about her somehow. She simply puts it all on the table and her boldness mixed with her charm manages to rise above awful material. The rest of the cast is, frankly, terrible. The cheating husband is such a dumb cartoon character. Cameron Diaz has grown genuinely unpalatable. Kate Upton tried her gorgeous best but it's clear even the director had to try and cut around her acting shortcomings. I smell a few Razzie nominations for this mess.
Surprisingly entertaining
TamedLion22 April 2014
This film was chosen by someone else. I went along for the ride, not expecting much, as I am not a big Cameron Diaz fan. But, I have to say, that I laughed as loud as anyone else in the movie theater. It was so funny, and entertaining. Sure, there were moments when you thought - hey this doesn't make any sense, but if you park reality at the door, and just sit and enjoy the hilarity of the situation and the characters, it was pretty entertaining. I left the theater satisfied that my movie dollars were well spent for a couple of hours of diversion from life's troubles. I reckon that this film will not win many awards, but I enjoyed it more than Bridesmaids. So, if you are looking for a great chick flick, this is a good one.
The Lawyer, The Wife and The Boobs
Clockwork-Avacado25 April 2014
Cameron Diaz is back in comedy, after her amazing turn in last year's "The Counselor", in which she finally nailed a solid, challenging dramatic performance. Now that she's back in the home territory, she would, one assumes, be able to do what she's been doing so well for almost twenty years. "The Other Woman" is really a two-header, between Diaz and Leslie Mann, as a standard straight-laced/ridiculous combination in the Laurell and Hardy vein, as two women unknowingly in love with the same man; Mann is his wife, Diaz is his casual fling, although she doesn't know it yet. When things finally come out, Kate's(Mann) world collapses, and she clings to Carly (Diaz) for help, and eventually, revenge. What neither of them are aware of, though, is that husband Mark, is his infidelity is pathological, and that Mark, far from being the desirable lover, is a worrying villain, who not only cheats in love, but is planning to cheat millions of dollars out of various businesses. Can the Lawyer, the Wife and The Boobs defeat his evil schemes in time? Actually, Nick Cassavettes new film is delightfully un-pretentious in its' presentation of good, relatively clean fun. Whilst this is not one of the most outstandingly memorable comedies you'll ever see in your life, it is an appealing, aesthetically pleasing 109 minutes of frothy, silly entertainment. It isn't all Biblical moping about, or CGI dominated video game super hero movies. It's a film about people - simple, bizarre comic archetypes, in a relatively competent script, that is just sufficiently lacking in structure to be fun, without being aimless. It's not especially laugh-out loud funny, again, but it mixes slapstick sequences, with sharp wit, and cringe-worthy monologues, courtesy of Leslie Mann, who is hilarious, and yet at times, so embarrassing it is hard to watch. But this is, thankfully, all in character - she plays a hopelessly devoted, and hopelessly stupid wife, whose enthusiasm is both cute and more importantly, the driving force behind the entire plot more or less. Feminists may criticise this character, as indeed they have, but without her, none of this film could have happened. And also; it's a comedy for god's sake. Of course she's silly. She's meant to be. This isn't a statement about what all women are like, the same way that Mark is not meant to represent an archetypal man. Grotesque stereotypes are what fuel all the best comedies, and this is no exception.
The balance between the three female leads is at times, uneven - Mann gets most of the gags, Diaz is playing essentially an exasperated "Straight Woman" to her incessant stream of breakdowns, and Upton plays perhaps an even more offensive stereotype (very well) of the dumb, sexy blonde. Whilst she isn't the best actress in the world, Upton's character actually has a lot of potential, which isn't quite fully exploited, when you finally get over the fact that you enjoyed the film better when it was just Diaz and Mann.
There are a few moments of rock-bottom crudity, which, depending on your tastes, will make or break the movie for you. Some work, and some don't, but on the whole, it is a love song to female friendships, about the importance of having friends you can rely on...over having a single meaningful relationship. Yes, it is a little cock-eyed, I'll grant you, but, allowing for the situation these characters are in, its' about the most positive message to be derived from the action. Mark is totally without redeeming features, which is a good thing in these days of moral apathy, and a light comedy is a strange place to find such a well defined sense of moral aesthetic, but at the end of the day, it is rather a "Sisters doing it for themselves" kind of film. And Mark is a worthy adversary for their curiously puerile revenge, which soon blossoms into something far more effective - A point a lot of critics who have criticised the film's "lack of realism", seem to have missed out on.
Their final revenge is definitely satisfying, although there are moments were the momentum rather sags, not soon after Kate Upton is introduced. This isn't Upton's fault - she actually has some of the best lines("She's not a whore - She's just a slut"), but there's no denying the film's finest moments are the horribly awkward "Let's be friends" chemistry between Diaz and Mann. However, the resolution is quite complex, and very well worked out - only, it's not exactly set up very well - although there's no denying that it is an effective climax. However, the final shots - freeze frames detailing the fates of each one of the three "Other Women", seems rather ill-conceived, and a more fully realised ending may have been nice, especially as it makes the rather perfunctory romantic sub-plots seem even more perfunctory. But then I suppose in a film about "Women Together", the idea of romantic fulfilment may see rather old-fashioned.
On the whole, then, Cameron Diaz is on cracking form, and may well be reaching a new pinnacle in her career, although its' more than likely that this will go down in history as a decent enough movie, not a classic.(Like "The Holiday")But Diaz seems even more comfortable at this age, sharper, funnier and more measured in her performances. Mann essentially makes 75% of the comedy in the film, and a nice sexy cameo from Nicki Minaj as Diaz's self-serving, empowered PA is a nice bonus- but it really doesn't make or break - she's on screen for maybe 4 and a half minutes in all. But, this is a piece of fun, and, in a rather turgid climate of grossly over-rated mainstream garbage, it's definitely an entertaining way to spend an afternoon.
The balance between the three female leads is at times, uneven - Mann gets most of the gags, Diaz is playing essentially an exasperated "Straight Woman" to her incessant stream of breakdowns, and Upton plays perhaps an even more offensive stereotype (very well) of the dumb, sexy blonde. Whilst she isn't the best actress in the world, Upton's character actually has a lot of potential, which isn't quite fully exploited, when you finally get over the fact that you enjoyed the film better when it was just Diaz and Mann.
There are a few moments of rock-bottom crudity, which, depending on your tastes, will make or break the movie for you. Some work, and some don't, but on the whole, it is a love song to female friendships, about the importance of having friends you can rely on...over having a single meaningful relationship. Yes, it is a little cock-eyed, I'll grant you, but, allowing for the situation these characters are in, its' about the most positive message to be derived from the action. Mark is totally without redeeming features, which is a good thing in these days of moral apathy, and a light comedy is a strange place to find such a well defined sense of moral aesthetic, but at the end of the day, it is rather a "Sisters doing it for themselves" kind of film. And Mark is a worthy adversary for their curiously puerile revenge, which soon blossoms into something far more effective - A point a lot of critics who have criticised the film's "lack of realism", seem to have missed out on.
Their final revenge is definitely satisfying, although there are moments were the momentum rather sags, not soon after Kate Upton is introduced. This isn't Upton's fault - she actually has some of the best lines("She's not a whore - She's just a slut"), but there's no denying the film's finest moments are the horribly awkward "Let's be friends" chemistry between Diaz and Mann. However, the resolution is quite complex, and very well worked out - only, it's not exactly set up very well - although there's no denying that it is an effective climax. However, the final shots - freeze frames detailing the fates of each one of the three "Other Women", seems rather ill-conceived, and a more fully realised ending may have been nice, especially as it makes the rather perfunctory romantic sub-plots seem even more perfunctory. But then I suppose in a film about "Women Together", the idea of romantic fulfilment may see rather old-fashioned.
On the whole, then, Cameron Diaz is on cracking form, and may well be reaching a new pinnacle in her career, although its' more than likely that this will go down in history as a decent enough movie, not a classic.(Like "The Holiday")But Diaz seems even more comfortable at this age, sharper, funnier and more measured in her performances. Mann essentially makes 75% of the comedy in the film, and a nice sexy cameo from Nicki Minaj as Diaz's self-serving, empowered PA is a nice bonus- but it really doesn't make or break - she's on screen for maybe 4 and a half minutes in all. But, this is a piece of fun, and, in a rather turgid climate of grossly over-rated mainstream garbage, it's definitely an entertaining way to spend an afternoon.
Laugh Out Loud Funny
stevendbeard25 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
I saw "The Other Woman", starring Cameron Diaz-Bad Teacher, The Green Hornet_2011; Leslie Mann-This is 40, The Cable Guy; Nikolaj Coaster- Waldau-Game of Thrones_t.v., Black Hawk Down; Kate Upton-The Three Stooges_2012, Tower Heist and Don Johnson-Django Unchained, Machete.
From the previews, this may seem like a chick-flick, but it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Cameron plays a single, successful lawyer that is dating Nikolaj pretty exclusively-she thinks he could be the one. Then, she finds out that he is married to Leslie, and being the morally upstanding person that she is, breaks things off with Nimolaj. Then, the unthinkable happens; Cameron and Leslie become BFF's and then, they find out Nikolaj is dating Kate on the side. Kate is brought in to their little girl's club and they all plot revenge on poor old Nikolaj. Don plays Cameron's father, who gives Cameron fatherly advice. I always like Cameron in just about anything she does, Leslie is very funny here-she is usually good but she is hilarious here-and Kate is...Well, she is just gorgeous, especially in a bikini. It's rated "PG-13" for language and sexual situations-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 49 minutes. I was laughing out loud and really enjoyed it so I would but this on DVD.
From the previews, this may seem like a chick-flick, but it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Cameron plays a single, successful lawyer that is dating Nikolaj pretty exclusively-she thinks he could be the one. Then, she finds out that he is married to Leslie, and being the morally upstanding person that she is, breaks things off with Nimolaj. Then, the unthinkable happens; Cameron and Leslie become BFF's and then, they find out Nikolaj is dating Kate on the side. Kate is brought in to their little girl's club and they all plot revenge on poor old Nikolaj. Don plays Cameron's father, who gives Cameron fatherly advice. I always like Cameron in just about anything she does, Leslie is very funny here-she is usually good but she is hilarious here-and Kate is...Well, she is just gorgeous, especially in a bikini. It's rated "PG-13" for language and sexual situations-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 49 minutes. I was laughing out loud and really enjoyed it so I would but this on DVD.
A Senseless Woman's Revenge Fantasy
dylandesign14 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
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...
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.
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.
I Love These Women,they are delicious!.
olalara26 April 2014
The Other Woman is a 2014 American romantic comedy film directed by Nick Cassavetes and written by Melissa Stack. The film stars Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau, Nicki Minaj and Taylor Kinney.
The Movie Plot: After discovering her boyfriend Mark is married, Carly tries to get her ruined life back on track. But when she accidentally meets the wife he's been cheating on, Kate, she realizes they have much in common, and her sworn enemy becomes her greatest friend. When yet another affair, Amber, is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the cheating, lying, three-timing Mark. Things get a lot crazier when they discover that Mark isn't a three-timer he's a four-timer
I really loved this film the women were deliciously cute and their acting was amazing. I laughed a lot and honestly I was surprised that this movie is rather excellent and has been under-rated. The movie poster is simply perfect. Believe me this film is a masterpiece. See it and you will spend the best of times and I guarantee you will quite enjoy this film and you'll love these irresistible ladies.
The Movie Plot: After discovering her boyfriend Mark is married, Carly tries to get her ruined life back on track. But when she accidentally meets the wife he's been cheating on, Kate, she realizes they have much in common, and her sworn enemy becomes her greatest friend. When yet another affair, Amber, is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the cheating, lying, three-timing Mark. Things get a lot crazier when they discover that Mark isn't a three-timer he's a four-timer
I really loved this film the women were deliciously cute and their acting was amazing. I laughed a lot and honestly I was surprised that this movie is rather excellent and has been under-rated. The movie poster is simply perfect. Believe me this film is a masterpiece. See it and you will spend the best of times and I guarantee you will quite enjoy this film and you'll love these irresistible ladies.
I might be a man, that was funny
amit-naor21 May 2014
The movie is kind of the typical woman revenge film and as a man I didn't know how will I react to it, unless a movie try to shove in your face "girls power" I react to female protagonist no different than a male protagonist and the fact that the villain is male also doesn't bother me unless they try to show all of the men as evil monsters, this movie did a good job (until the last scene with the male) not making it feel like girls power because the women character didn't try to be strong and thought but just make them normal women and when it comes to the male, we do see more males in the film and not all of them are "horrible monsters" like "the villain" some of them are nice, funny and even helping them. Some people might not like it, but I see that as a no different movie than any other revenge film.
Sexist, Misandrist, Garbage.
jamestempleton00023 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Having watched watched this movie one is left with a bitter taste in one's mouth. The movie itself is a very simple rehash of an often used plot device, that of revenge. But there are points in this movie where one is left wondering if the director simply wanted to get off on the whole, "men are evil and stupid" thing and because of that, If I were rating this movie on its sexist, misandrist content, I would give it 10/10. The movie, however, is very far from this. I won't be including any spoilers as that would simply deny you the sheer frothing hatred that will inevitably pour forth from you upon watching this failed excuse of a movie.
Just something to point out though, take all the characters in this movie and reverse their roles, and see how that plays out. I imagine if you do you will quickly be forced to realize that had that been the case the movie would simply never have made it to air, and if somehow it did, would have been rightly castrated as the sexist, misandrist drivel that it really is.
Now that we've reached the 21st Century, I really hoped we'd never be seeing crap like this anymore.
Just something to point out though, take all the characters in this movie and reverse their roles, and see how that plays out. I imagine if you do you will quickly be forced to realize that had that been the case the movie would simply never have made it to air, and if somehow it did, would have been rightly castrated as the sexist, misandrist drivel that it really is.
Now that we've reached the 21st Century, I really hoped we'd never be seeing crap like this anymore.
Completely hilarious if you can forget about your sense of reality.
Shopaholic3520 April 2014
I really don't care how unrealistic or clichéd this movie is because I loved it. It was absolutely hilarious and stayed true to it's chick flick roots.
Leslie Mann deserves major credit because she is incredibly talented and carried a lot of the movie. Don't get me wrong I also enjoyed Cameron Diaz & Kate Upton's performances but Leslie is in a comedy league of her own. So incredibly impressed was I with the movie that I was even able to alter my personal feelings about Cameron Diaz (I don't know what it is but she annoys me).
Be prepared to throw your expectations and sense of reality out of the window for this film. If you do I think you will love it.
Leslie Mann deserves major credit because she is incredibly talented and carried a lot of the movie. Don't get me wrong I also enjoyed Cameron Diaz & Kate Upton's performances but Leslie is in a comedy league of her own. So incredibly impressed was I with the movie that I was even able to alter my personal feelings about Cameron Diaz (I don't know what it is but she annoys me).
Be prepared to throw your expectations and sense of reality out of the window for this film. If you do I think you will love it.
The standard message that men are 'dogs' and women are 'cats', is yet again reinforced in this movie. Recommended for its target audience.
editor-sydneyartsguide24 April 2014
THE OTHER WOMAN is directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz (Carly) as a smart and beautiful New York lawyer, who suddenly learns that her monogamous and unmarried boyfriend of eight weeks, Mark (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) is in fact happily married. With Mark's wife Kate (Leslie Mann) together they get their revenge on the two-timing bastard, and they quickly discover yet another affair with the much younger Amber (Kate Upton), so the cheater is actually a three-timing bastard.
THE OTHER WOMAN has a brand new screenplay and is also a female buddy movie, but this oft-used theme of women getting even does immediately remind one of Olivia Goldsmith's book and movie called FIRST WIVES CLUB (1996). With its unrealistic and unlikely storyline, THE OTHER WOMAN is a raunchier, edgier take on the subject.
Of course the audience is anticipating how the revenge will play out with the excessive consumption of alcohol including shots. With the clever use of music to quickly move the story forward the movie's 109 minutes went by at high speed, and there are many gross shocks and surprises ahead, as the three women royally set up their man.
Sports Illustrated model - Kate Upton at 21 years of age- appears to have been cast in her role as the silly bimbo, simply as a result of her upper body size. What the casting agent missed was spotted by every woman in the audience, her cellulite.
Leslie Mann is perpetually typecast in this kind of role although this reviewer was very impressed by the range of her emotionally driven performance. Nicki Minaj (Carly's secretary) delivers her witty modern day metaphors with great aplomb.
The audience were mainly women, and from their constant laughter, they left their sense of reality at home! They got real pleasure from the rough treatment deal out to the cheating husband, including the physical injuries. The standard message that men are 'dogs' and women are 'cats', is yet again reinforced in this movie. Recommended for its target audience.
Byline- Lynn Belvedere
THE OTHER WOMAN has a brand new screenplay and is also a female buddy movie, but this oft-used theme of women getting even does immediately remind one of Olivia Goldsmith's book and movie called FIRST WIVES CLUB (1996). With its unrealistic and unlikely storyline, THE OTHER WOMAN is a raunchier, edgier take on the subject.
Of course the audience is anticipating how the revenge will play out with the excessive consumption of alcohol including shots. With the clever use of music to quickly move the story forward the movie's 109 minutes went by at high speed, and there are many gross shocks and surprises ahead, as the three women royally set up their man.
Sports Illustrated model - Kate Upton at 21 years of age- appears to have been cast in her role as the silly bimbo, simply as a result of her upper body size. What the casting agent missed was spotted by every woman in the audience, her cellulite.
Leslie Mann is perpetually typecast in this kind of role although this reviewer was very impressed by the range of her emotionally driven performance. Nicki Minaj (Carly's secretary) delivers her witty modern day metaphors with great aplomb.
The audience were mainly women, and from their constant laughter, they left their sense of reality at home! They got real pleasure from the rough treatment deal out to the cheating husband, including the physical injuries. The standard message that men are 'dogs' and women are 'cats', is yet again reinforced in this movie. Recommended for its target audience.
Byline- Lynn Belvedere
Don't Waste Your Time With This Potboiler.
tampinator21 January 2017
Warning: Spoilers
What an excruciating film this is, thank Christ I sort of watched it for free on TV. Every cliché in the book from the bloody annoying largest dog they could find to any opportunity to do some kind of faux girlie intoxicated squabble involving lots of garbled script. the sole thing that kept me from turning it off was to see what kind of clichéd comeuppance the two-timing husband was going to get. It certainly didn't disappoint, the ending was predictably bland. All the girls having seen off the scheming husband end up in clover one way or the other, the antihero presumably on skid row. I don't blame the acting, except Niki Minaj.....what was all that about, why was she even in this film...the guilty party was the director who's supposed to be in charge....dreadful.
Stepford's knives
tieman6419 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
"Don't you want to have somebody who objectifies you? Have you thought about your butt and who's gonna tear it in two? We've never had it so good, uh huh, we're out of the woods, and if you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood." - Lily Allen ("Hard Out Here for a Bi*ch")
Initially dull, Nick Cassavetes' "The Other Woman" picks up steam during its middle sections. Here the director lets go of all pretence and simply indulges in vulgar, absurdest humour.
The plot? Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton play a trio of women who have been betrayed by a serial adulterer (Nikolaj Waldau). With a dash of Girl Power and a bucket load of Sisterhood, our trio of feministas assert their femininity, outsmart men and raise the Flag of Triumph in the name of all women manipulated, battered and discarded by conniving dudes. Male audiences scream misandry, women clap their hands with glee, whilst connoisseurs charge Cassavetes with sloppy film-making.
The woman-on-top revenge movie has been around for a long time. Think 1936's "The Women", "I Spit on Your Grave", "The Witches of Eastwick", "Death Becomes Her", "The First Wives Club" and so on. Like "The Other Woman", these films tend to believe that "bringing down men" is inherently empowering, but most can barely conceive of women as being anything but an adjunct to guys. Bechdel would weep.
7.5/10 – Weak, but funny in its middle section.
Initially dull, Nick Cassavetes' "The Other Woman" picks up steam during its middle sections. Here the director lets go of all pretence and simply indulges in vulgar, absurdest humour.
The plot? Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton play a trio of women who have been betrayed by a serial adulterer (Nikolaj Waldau). With a dash of Girl Power and a bucket load of Sisterhood, our trio of feministas assert their femininity, outsmart men and raise the Flag of Triumph in the name of all women manipulated, battered and discarded by conniving dudes. Male audiences scream misandry, women clap their hands with glee, whilst connoisseurs charge Cassavetes with sloppy film-making.
The woman-on-top revenge movie has been around for a long time. Think 1936's "The Women", "I Spit on Your Grave", "The Witches of Eastwick", "Death Becomes Her", "The First Wives Club" and so on. Like "The Other Woman", these films tend to believe that "bringing down men" is inherently empowering, but most can barely conceive of women as being anything but an adjunct to guys. Bechdel would weep.
7.5/10 – Weak, but funny in its middle section.
hard to admire, unenjoyable
aminifatimaaa13 February 2019
A misguided and horrible excuse for a female empowerment film, The Other Woman is a comedy that makes women look terrible and is absolutely miserable to watch, with horrendous performances, painfully unfunny attempts at humor, and poor writing.
Fun
theaprilbaby24 July 2014
Honestly, this was fine for what it was advertised as: a fun romp just for laughs. If you're looking for something that will awe you with its awesome-ness, you're looking for the wrong movie.
I've read a lot of the negative reviews. Yes, the man is a POS and quite frankly not very fleshed out other than the fact that he's a terrible guy. Diaz was a little unappealing as the bitch lawyer and perhaps Kate Upton's acting does leave something to be desired. But honestly, no matter what the poster or some of the movie might suggest, this movie seems to me like it centered around Mann's character finding her way after everything in her life goes to hell. And for that, I think it did fine.
I've read a lot of the negative reviews. Yes, the man is a POS and quite frankly not very fleshed out other than the fact that he's a terrible guy. Diaz was a little unappealing as the bitch lawyer and perhaps Kate Upton's acting does leave something to be desired. But honestly, no matter what the poster or some of the movie might suggest, this movie seems to me like it centered around Mann's character finding her way after everything in her life goes to hell. And for that, I think it did fine.
Quite good fun
neil-47625 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Pulling a surprise visit at the home of Mark, her new boyfriend, Carly is somewhat surprised to discover the existence of wife Kate, who is equally surprised to discover that her husband is playing around. The two women unexpectedly bond, at which point they are both further surprised to find out that he has yet another woman on the boil, voluptuous youngster Amber. The three women put their heads together to decide what can be done.
In many ways this is a fairly standard "sex wars" comedy. It has a decent set-up, and features likable performances from the three main characters. It is somewhat overlong, and Leslie Mann has clearly been let loose on a long leash to improvise. This is mostly fine since her performance is both funny (especially physically) and touching, but she could usefully have been reined in here and there. Kate Upton, in her movie debut, proves to have a very warm and natural screen presence to add to her more obvious assets. And the film features one of the best "comeuppance" sequences since Ian Carmichael's tennis match with Terry-Thomas in School For Scoundrels (no, not that one, the original).
In many ways this is a fairly standard "sex wars" comedy. It has a decent set-up, and features likable performances from the three main characters. It is somewhat overlong, and Leslie Mann has clearly been let loose on a long leash to improvise. This is mostly fine since her performance is both funny (especially physically) and touching, but she could usefully have been reined in here and there. Kate Upton, in her movie debut, proves to have a very warm and natural screen presence to add to her more obvious assets. And the film features one of the best "comeuppance" sequences since Ian Carmichael's tennis match with Terry-Thomas in School For Scoundrels (no, not that one, the original).
Bad acting, ridiculous attempt at comedy totally falls flat!
rrcharpe19 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Over the past several years I have been struck by how truly bad most American comedy movies have become and this absolutely terrible "comedy" reaffirms my premise that "bathroom" humor (not the John Candy or John Belushi kind of sly-jokes and really funny scenes they left us with) and serious over-acting by supposed comedians (think Identity Thief and the actress who played the title role). There is an expression that has worked its way into the psyche of the American public, which is that we (as the American people) are being "dumbed down" by the movies currently being put out by Hollywood. This movie is dumber than Jim Carrey's movie, "Dumb and Dumber". The lead actress is absolutely abysmal in her comedic talent and the writers are truly bad to have created such a typical, "dumbed down" comedy, that had nothing clever, nothing really funny except perhaps one scene where Cameron Diaz thinks she has been hit in the face by a dog's balls (wow that took a lot of original thinking to come up with that). To say I was disappointed after paying my 11 dollars to see this extremely unfunny movie would be an understatement. From the first scene to the last I squirmed in my seat at the boring pace and repetitive totally "over the top" acting by the lead actress, who name I cannot remember and thank gosh for that as I will have to find it out because I will never go see another movie this crude and unfunny supposed comedian is in! StocktonRob
Loved it- well worth a watch- a comedy with substance
lejazzyistepic224 April 2014
I know there are lots of negative reviews (critics, I mean) about this movie which made me unsure about going to see it. Basically what I can say is that reviews can't tell you how you are going to experience this movie- I found it hilarious. I came to a point where I couldn't breathe as I was laughing so much- a nice bit of stress relief. I didn't find that there were laughing moments the WHOLE way through- I don't know why the critics didn't like this though- at least it's not just a mindless comedy. It has a genuine plot line which is followed through- a comedy with substance- it's not just one funny scenario after another and this emphasises the hilarity of the funny moments that do come up. Would definitely recommend it- left me buzzing after wards- can be enjoyed by everyone. I found Leslie Mann was the shining star of the movie- so was Cameron Diaz (slightly less so than Mann). Kate Upton, I think contributed very little- don't know why she got the billing that she did. Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau also stood out for me.
As seen at Haydn Kino: The Other Woman
kostyantynsteblovskyy3 May 2014
If you were waiting for a chance to laugh your heart out, all you need to do is buy a ticket to watch "The Other Woman". The director of "The Notebook" brings his charm to the romantic comedy film, written by Melissa Stack, who makes her debut in the cinematic world and comes up with great dialogues, funny jokes and some fair ideas about modern day dating policies.
The film goes over the subject of cheating with a fine-tooth comb, but nevertheless also covers trust issues, friendships, complicated relationships, heavy drinking, bad decisions, good decisions, revenge, Kate Upton's flawlessness and last, but not least, waxing. And with all previously mentioned, it stays true to the goal of every comedy movie to make you laugh.
Starring Leslie Mann, Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton, as broken-hearted girls, the three will have you rolling in the aisles almost every minute of the movie, except of one scene with Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau, which I still wonder how it made the final cut. You'll know it, when you see it!
Leslie Mann does an amazing job, playing Kate King, the wife of an unfaithful husband, who battles not to lose her mind after she finds out, that her husband is not really training for the marathon. And although most of you will be going to the cinema to see Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton, in the end of the movie you will be leaving with the best impressions about Leslie Mann, who just rocks with her performance.
That does not mean of course, that Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton do not do an excellent job. Cameron Diaz, portrays Carly Whitten, a successful Manhattan attorney, who is the perfect woman as she has the package any man would wish for - yet she is not irreplaceable, especially when "the lack of sex" is on the table. Just when Carly tries to explain to everyone that she is really not a mistress, as she did not know that the man she was dating was married, Kate Upton's Amber or also known as "The Boobs" from the official trailer, comes into the picture, as the new other woman, who knew she was sleeping with a married man.
Read the rest here: http://austriantimes.at/news/Panorama/2014-05- 02/50847/As_seen_at_Haydn_Kino%3A_The_Other_Woman
The film goes over the subject of cheating with a fine-tooth comb, but nevertheless also covers trust issues, friendships, complicated relationships, heavy drinking, bad decisions, good decisions, revenge, Kate Upton's flawlessness and last, but not least, waxing. And with all previously mentioned, it stays true to the goal of every comedy movie to make you laugh.
Starring Leslie Mann, Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton, as broken-hearted girls, the three will have you rolling in the aisles almost every minute of the movie, except of one scene with Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau, which I still wonder how it made the final cut. You'll know it, when you see it!
Leslie Mann does an amazing job, playing Kate King, the wife of an unfaithful husband, who battles not to lose her mind after she finds out, that her husband is not really training for the marathon. And although most of you will be going to the cinema to see Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton, in the end of the movie you will be leaving with the best impressions about Leslie Mann, who just rocks with her performance.
That does not mean of course, that Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton do not do an excellent job. Cameron Diaz, portrays Carly Whitten, a successful Manhattan attorney, who is the perfect woman as she has the package any man would wish for - yet she is not irreplaceable, especially when "the lack of sex" is on the table. Just when Carly tries to explain to everyone that she is really not a mistress, as she did not know that the man she was dating was married, Kate Upton's Amber or also known as "The Boobs" from the official trailer, comes into the picture, as the new other woman, who knew she was sleeping with a married man.
Read the rest here: http://austriantimes.at/news/Panorama/2014-05- 02/50847/As_seen_at_Haydn_Kino%3A_The_Other_Woman
The Movie that Made Cameron Diaz Quit Acting
siebertws134 January 2018
Terrible ripoff of "The First Wives Club" concept, wasting a pair of talented comediennes.
Production must have been some kind of horror show, because Cameron Diaz reportedly said it was the film experience that made her never want to make another movie (she did make two more, "Sex Tape" and "Annie," films to which she was previously contracted).
This is funny enough to have been called CARLY'S ANGELS!
Carycomic28 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
I'll admit it. I went to this film expecting it to be a bigger flop than KNIGHT AND DAY. But, man! Was I proved wrong.
Cameron Diaz is perfectly believable as the modern WSF yuppie who has it all. Looks; brains; a high-paying job; and a sexy boyfriend (played by Nikolas Waldau) she's been dating for two straight months. But, when Waldau blows off meeting her father (the still-versatile Don Johnson, now playing the same type of lovably lecherous old codger James Gammon played in NASH BRIDGES), she goes to spy on him. Thinking he's simply being commitment-phobic.
Imagine her surprise at meeting her boyfriend's cute-but-naïve redheaded wife (played by Leslie Mann)! Followed by the two of them meeting--and befriending--the buxom-yet-sensitive Kate Upton!
I won't spoil the rest of the film for you, except to say that Ms. Mann practically steals the show with her character's ditziness.* And, Ms. Diaz still looks as good in a bikini as Ms. Upton! The latter is not just eye-candy, however. She's very articulate. And, Waldau is almost _too_ believable as the unfaithful con artist they now love to hate.
Of course, I must confess that Ms. Diaz and Mr. Johnson are the only two names I recognized in the opening cast credits. Ms. Upton, Ms. Mann, and Mr. Waldau all being completely unknown to me! But, I sense all that's going to change for these three in the very near future. So, go see this film and suspend all disbelief. Because that's the best way to shamelessly enjoy it...like I did.
* "It rhymes with 'schlintercourse.' " Lol!
Cameron Diaz is perfectly believable as the modern WSF yuppie who has it all. Looks; brains; a high-paying job; and a sexy boyfriend (played by Nikolas Waldau) she's been dating for two straight months. But, when Waldau blows off meeting her father (the still-versatile Don Johnson, now playing the same type of lovably lecherous old codger James Gammon played in NASH BRIDGES), she goes to spy on him. Thinking he's simply being commitment-phobic.
Imagine her surprise at meeting her boyfriend's cute-but-naïve redheaded wife (played by Leslie Mann)! Followed by the two of them meeting--and befriending--the buxom-yet-sensitive Kate Upton!
I won't spoil the rest of the film for you, except to say that Ms. Mann practically steals the show with her character's ditziness.* And, Ms. Diaz still looks as good in a bikini as Ms. Upton! The latter is not just eye-candy, however. She's very articulate. And, Waldau is almost _too_ believable as the unfaithful con artist they now love to hate.
Of course, I must confess that Ms. Diaz and Mr. Johnson are the only two names I recognized in the opening cast credits. Ms. Upton, Ms. Mann, and Mr. Waldau all being completely unknown to me! But, I sense all that's going to change for these three in the very near future. So, go see this film and suspend all disbelief. Because that's the best way to shamelessly enjoy it...like I did.
* "It rhymes with 'schlintercourse.' " Lol!
Hilarious, uplifting, and delightful
autumn9159924 April 2014
My thoughts before the movie: I feel like this movie is going to be kind of like This Means War where two men are both dating the same woman and they let her choose who she wants.
My thoughts after the movie: I was completely wrong. That movie was so much better than This Means War. Basically, The Other Woman was about Kate (Leslie Mann) finding out that her husband Mark (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) has been sleeping with Carly (Cameron Diaz) and they become friends and try to ruin Mark's life. They soon find out that Mark has also been sleeping with another woman named Amber (Kate Upton). Leslie Mann and Cameron Diaz had me laughing almost the entire time. Leslie Mann and Cameron Diaz are so funny apart but they're even more hilarious together. It was a good movie, but I'll probably wait until it comes out on DVD to see it again.
My Three Words: Hilarious, uplifting, and delightful
My Rating: 7/10
My thoughts after the movie: I was completely wrong. That movie was so much better than This Means War. Basically, The Other Woman was about Kate (Leslie Mann) finding out that her husband Mark (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) has been sleeping with Carly (Cameron Diaz) and they become friends and try to ruin Mark's life. They soon find out that Mark has also been sleeping with another woman named Amber (Kate Upton). Leslie Mann and Cameron Diaz had me laughing almost the entire time. Leslie Mann and Cameron Diaz are so funny apart but they're even more hilarious together. It was a good movie, but I'll probably wait until it comes out on DVD to see it again.
My Three Words: Hilarious, uplifting, and delightful
My Rating: 7/10
Hollywood 1, Bechdel 0
cc_vivalavida29 April 2014
My experience of watching The Other Woman can best be equated to being presented with a large iced cake, only to take a forkful and realise that beneath a miniscule layer of icing there lies nothing but impacted excrement. The film comes courtesy of director Nick Cassavetes (whose previous crime against celluloid was 2004's The Notebook) and is intended as a story of female empowerment as one woman (Cameron Diaz) who, upon discovering that her boyfriend is married, teams up with the wife (Leslie Mann) and another secret lover (Kate Upton) to take revenge.
The biggest of many, many problems with the film is that it pretends to be a story of female empowerment: I'm not sure if I missed a meeting, but since when has swooning over every male character, getting drunk and being sick into handbags been the mainstay of strong female characters? There is also a horrific display of double standards: could you imagine a film where a group of men get their own back on a cheating woman by suggesting that they kick her in between the legs or supply her with hormone pills designed for pre-op trans-sexuals? The initial promise portrayed by the film's poster (a knuckleduster sporting a wedding ring in place of a spike) is scuppered within the first five minutes.
The three leads actresses are incessantly annoying, Diaz sporting a possibly plastic-enhanced smile all the way through, Leslie Mann apparently under the belief that any line of dialogue can be made funnier simply by shouting it, and Kate Upton is there purely for set dressing. The second Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau (playing the cheating husband) walks into frame, the women (even the ones he has cheated on and lied to) can't help but fall instantly in love with him. Nicki Minaj is cast as an assistant to Diaz' lawyer character (no, I'm not making that up), and spends her scenes plastered in grotesque layers of make-up and doing her best to shove her bottom at the camera.
As if that last piece of casting wasn't enough, the entire film seems to be populated by the interior decoration of Maxim magazine, everyone looking perfectly tanned with perfect hair and nails and sporting snow-white teeth. None of the events or the dialogue bears anything even resembling real life, at best looking slightly tacky and at worst giving characters lines like 'you need to cry on the inside, like winners do'. I guess that makes me the biggest winner in the entire universe, because I left the cinema positively bursting with internal tears.
At best, one could say that the film is coherently put together and that's it. There is nothing else in this vacuous, grotesque, star-studded pile of crap to redeem it, and the fact that it has just taken around $25 million in America is a depressing reminder of the state of modern cinema. At least Devil's Due had the decency to make me feel so ill that I could have prematurely left the cinema with my integrity intact, but The Other Woman kept me pinned, mentally kicking and screaming for the entirety of its' unbearable 110 minutes.
The biggest of many, many problems with the film is that it pretends to be a story of female empowerment: I'm not sure if I missed a meeting, but since when has swooning over every male character, getting drunk and being sick into handbags been the mainstay of strong female characters? There is also a horrific display of double standards: could you imagine a film where a group of men get their own back on a cheating woman by suggesting that they kick her in between the legs or supply her with hormone pills designed for pre-op trans-sexuals? The initial promise portrayed by the film's poster (a knuckleduster sporting a wedding ring in place of a spike) is scuppered within the first five minutes.
The three leads actresses are incessantly annoying, Diaz sporting a possibly plastic-enhanced smile all the way through, Leslie Mann apparently under the belief that any line of dialogue can be made funnier simply by shouting it, and Kate Upton is there purely for set dressing. The second Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau (playing the cheating husband) walks into frame, the women (even the ones he has cheated on and lied to) can't help but fall instantly in love with him. Nicki Minaj is cast as an assistant to Diaz' lawyer character (no, I'm not making that up), and spends her scenes plastered in grotesque layers of make-up and doing her best to shove her bottom at the camera.
As if that last piece of casting wasn't enough, the entire film seems to be populated by the interior decoration of Maxim magazine, everyone looking perfectly tanned with perfect hair and nails and sporting snow-white teeth. None of the events or the dialogue bears anything even resembling real life, at best looking slightly tacky and at worst giving characters lines like 'you need to cry on the inside, like winners do'. I guess that makes me the biggest winner in the entire universe, because I left the cinema positively bursting with internal tears.
At best, one could say that the film is coherently put together and that's it. There is nothing else in this vacuous, grotesque, star-studded pile of crap to redeem it, and the fact that it has just taken around $25 million in America is a depressing reminder of the state of modern cinema. At least Devil's Due had the decency to make me feel so ill that I could have prematurely left the cinema with my integrity intact, but The Other Woman kept me pinned, mentally kicking and screaming for the entirety of its' unbearable 110 minutes.
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