The Other Woman

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Release Date: April 23rd 2014

After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.

Director: Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook, My Sister's Keeper)

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Leslie Mann, famous for films like This is 40, and her wildly memorable cameo in The 40 Year Old Virgin (her husband is Judd Apatow), follows others like Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd in improvised humour. Although Mann attempts the same method in The Other Woman, it's squandered by a script with little laughs.

It starts with Cameron Diaz's Carly, and it starts positively, as the opening credits see Carly and new love Mark King (Game of Thrones' Jamie Lannister, otherwise known as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), cavorting their way through the opening credits. Carly decides to surprise Mark at his home by dressing up, but who answers the door? His wife! Kate King (Mann) and Carly are both unaware of each others relationship with Mark so unexpectedly end up becoming best buds and planning their revenge.

Later on they find out that he's cheating on them with another woman. How does a businessman handle his work life and have three relationships on the go at the same time? Carly and Kate enlist the help of the Amber (Kate Upton) and their getting back begins.

Director Nick Cassavetes cannot land a laugh when it's needed most. The main actresses try so hard to be funny that they end up looking desperate. This is mainly caused by recycled jokes (spiking Mark's drink with laxatives and swapping his shampoo for hair-remover) and a less than spot-on editing. Other jokes fall flatter than a dump in the living room floor (Kate's dog in Carly's house) and Kate Upton doesn't have a funny bone in her body.

The Other Woman is another one of those films that shows premise but does little more than that.

Overview: Mann and Diaz's comic talent is wasted in this film. It may incur a few smiles, with the ending generating most of them.