Film 43 - The Other Woman

The Other Woman - 27/04/2014

After a steamy one night stand which turns into an loving relationship, Cameron Diaz feels as though she has met her ideal partner.  When she goes to surprise him at his house she is greeted by Leslie Mann, his wife. Both driven by revenge the unlikely pair team up with another mistress, Kate Upton, to bring down the cheating husband and cause his lots of upset along the way.

As far as chick flicks go, this is pretty much the same as the others, story line you can assume from the beginning, predictable character traits, and a failure on the Bechdel Movie Test, but you can have a good old giggle with it.

Leslie Mann plays the traumatised wife very well and is a real fish out of water as she went out of the dating scene at a very early age.  Where as Cameron Diaz's character is a woman who has never found the right guy but has had a lot of searching.  Both leads are entertaining and each have their beauty and flaws

Kate Upton (as the second "other woman") seems to be there purely for the 'Bewbs' jokes, and doesn't bring much else to the party.

Nicki Minaj appears as Cameron Diaz's secretary and is bloody awful in her role! absolutely terrible acting and I was really unsure if she was being serious about trying to be sexy or if it was a joke.  Especially when telling Cameron Diaz how to be sexy (I really do hope it was a joke)

Bringing nothing new to the plate, this is really a DVD film as the large screen showed wrinkles and the surround sound just made voices echo, making it feel like every room in the film had been recently decorated, which was quite distracting.