Kate Upton and Cameron Diaz star in 'The Other Woman,' in which every gag is milked dry
Kate Upton and Leslie Mann star in 'Woman.' Kate Upton has also appeared in 'The Three Stooges' and 'Tower Heist.'
'The Other Woman' stars Leslie Mann (l.), Cameron Diaz (center), and Kate Upton (r.).
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I laughed a few times while watching the slapstick sisterhood comedy 鈥淭he Other Woman,鈥� but most of the time I was grim-faced. You can鈥檛 complain that the filmmakers 鈥� director Nick Cassavetes and screenwriter Melissa K. Stack 鈥� aren鈥檛 enthusiastic about their hijinks. Practically every gag in this movie, and there are scores of them, is milked dry. When the gags aren鈥檛 very good to begin to with, this is a prescription for disaster.
Cameron Diaz plays a tough-cookie attorney who discovers her dreamboat boyfriend (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is a married man. The crumbum鈥檚 wife, played in full screech by Leslie Mann, is a homebody who, wronged, discovers her inner avenger. She鈥檚 still sweet, though. Harmlessness, after all, is this movie鈥檚 calling card.
Tastefulness, not so much. In keeping with the 鈥淏ridesmaids鈥� tradition, not to mention the standard-issue slobbola guy comedies, bathroom breaks are occasions for gross-outs.
Kate Upton plays the third in a trio of ladies ganging up on the philanderer, and it鈥檚 a good thing she has a career as a supermodel. Grade: C- (Rated PG-13 on appeal for mature thematic material, sexual references and language.)