Review of The Other Woman (2014) by Foxgrove — 02 May 2014

Low brow cinema at its most commercial. This does benefit from a good performance from Cameron Diaz and a fair quota of funny moments. It is also unbearably crass at times and Leslie Mann's subtle as a sledge hammer turn as the cheated upon wife doesn't help matters. She is so over the top, and her character's actions so unbelievable that the tone of the film become unbalanced as a result. Kate Upton also contributes nothing.Well, almost nothing!. In fact Diaz quite correctly alludes to Upton's character as being a bit of a vacuous air head.

By the time this unlikely trio reach the Bahamas the film is running out of steam and fun. The revenge acted upon the cheating husband actually makes for quite an ugly scene which is distastefully out of key with the rest of the movie. Also the film's decision to include end title cards to let us know what happened to the characters next is somewhat arrogant for a film of this calibre and type.