The Other Woman: A Review

The other night I had the misfortune of being dragged to see a movie.



A few other reviews I read said it was "predictable" and "stale." But I think it goes further than that.

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A few things that pissed me off about this movie (there are SPOILERS):

• Toilet Humour. I've never been a fan. EVER. I think Toilet humour is the lowest form of humour out there. Its not classy, its not funny. Its stupid.
• Nicki Minaj was the ONLY black person in the WHOLE movie and she was a fucking secretary. Not only that, but I felt that she was portrayed as being a woman of "loose morals" because she and her current boyfriend/husband (its not mentioned if they are married) fell in love with each other when they were married to other people.
• Can we say "Body Shaming" and "Slut Shaming"? At one point Cameron Diaz's character (Carly) tells Leslie Mann's character (Kate) that "No man wants to see that" referring to Kate's not shaving her vagina. This is just one of several things that had me seething in my chair. YOU ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO SHAVE ANYTHING FOR ANYONE BUT YOURSELF! And if HE doesn't want to see it, HE can hit the road. Not only that, but there was liberal usage of the words "slut" and "whore" when referring to the "other women."
• Carly, the other woman, is supposed to be the "smart" character in all this drama. She's a lawyer, obviously a successful one since she is practicing in New York City. So... How come she participates in felonious behaviours better suited for teenagers? FYI, altering someone's drink without their knowledge/consent is IN FACT a FELONY. As in, you could go to jail! Not to mention that putting an excessive amount of laxative in a drink can literally kill someone.
• Kate, the wife, is an idiot. She is portrayed as being weak-willed, scatter-brained, etc. It was ridiculously sad, because you could tell that she loved her husband and this was a shameful thing for some reason. Wanting to repair her marriage was a terrible choice, according to everyone else. I'm not saying that trying to fix it would've worked, but confronting him rather sabotaging him would've been better.
• Amber (played by Kate Upton, apparently), the other (other) woman, is just there for boobage. Legit, she is in this movie to be breasts. She barely talks. She is sex. And that's all she was. She was also not very intelligent. Which made me incredibly sad. It would've been awesome if she had been portrayed as an intelligent young woman, besides being a sexual object.
• Mark (played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), the "scumbag," isn't just an adulterer, but he is also a criminal! How fucking cliche can you get? I mean, really? He can't just be an adulterer, he's an altogether terrible human being too.
• The women in this movie are portrayed as vindictive bitches. Not to mention that Kate is portrayed as someone easily swayed by sex and an idiot. I know women can be vindictive. I mean, I'm a woman. I'm vindictive sometimes. But men can be JUST as vindictive. Its a HUMAN problem, not a gender problem.

The only thing that I appreciated about this movie:

At one point in the film, Carly wakes up in just a shirt. She notices that she is other wise naked and she immediately thinks that she has slept with Phil (played by Taylor Kinney), Kate's brother. Phil tells her that they didn't "hook up" and when she asks why not, he says he considers himself to be a "good guy." I appreciated this for two reasons:

1. Its the first time I have seen a movie take the stance that having sex with a highly inebriated woman is wrong.
2. Phil not only DID NOT sleep with Carly, he put his shirt on her so that she wouldn't be completely naked and then made sure she got to bed.

It didn't really "ruin" the moment, per say, but the only thing I found not endearing about this scene was when he said that he had to "wall up" his willpower by putting a bunch of pillows between them. It would've been better if he had left it at being a "good guy."

I am terribly sad that my friend, Kid, spent $20.50 on this movie (my ticket and his, since I said I didn't really want to see it in the first place). I think its the worst $10.25 he's spent on me. Ever.

This movie isn't even worth a "rating" in my opinion. I legitimately hated this film. One of the worst movies I've seen.

Do yourself a favour, don't see this film. Its not funny. Its not classy. Its terrible.