Rating of
1/4
Terrible, Confusing and Unfunny
Looneymanthegreat - wrote on 06/02/14
The Other Woman may be the worst movie that has come out this year so far. The characters are reprehensible, the plot is nonsensical and the only laughter that it drew from my lips was directed at the filmmakers themselves.
The movies fundamental premise is that three women who have all been cheated on by the same guy all become friends and get revenge on there mutual lover; but I never for one second believed that these people would ever have anything to do with each other. Cameron Diaz’s character is unlikable and Leslie Mann’s character is ungodly annoying. Kate Upton is even worse in that she has no character; she has no major influence on the plot, and I imagine was only cast to help attract male audiences (She was on the cover of a recent Swimsuit model magazine.) None of these three women should become friends, if anything they should become enemies, but they all become best friends simply because the plot gods demand it.
Half the movie’s run time is spent simply establishing their friendship. The revenge portion of the movie doesn’t really start until after the audience forgets what the movie they’re watching is supposed to be about.
Even when the movie gets to the actual plot, it’s terrible. The man whom they’re getting revenge on is basically a super villain, and when they get their revenge on him he keeps running into stuff and hurting himself accidentally, as if being clumsy is some how a symptom of his being ruined financially, which is how the women eventually get back at him. His downfall is basically a really week power fantasy and has very little basis in reality. It is to breakups what pornography is to sex, except that pornography makes more sense. When will “empowering” female movies learn that the road to making strong female characters is not to make all the men around them evil?
The Other Woman is terrible, unfunny and confusing. I wouldn’t even recommend it to someone looking for a good girl’s night out movie. I definitely wouldn’t recommend it for date-night sense the movie is extraordinarily unromantic. The only way I could see someone enjoying The Other Woman is if they get themselves profoundly wasted before entering the theater.
