Lynn Belvedere

THE OTHER WOMAN

Aye, revenge is sweet. Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton in THE OTHER WOMAN
Aye, revenge is sweet. Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton in THE OTHER WOMAN

THE OTHER WOMAN is directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz (Carly) as a smart and beautiful New York lawyer, who suddenly learns that her monogamous and unmarried boyfriend of eight weeks, Mark (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is in fact happily married. With Mark’s wife Kate (Leslie Mann) together they get their revenge on the two-timing bastard, and they quickly discover yet another affair with the much younger Amber (Kate Upton), so the cheater is actually a three-timing bastard.

THE OTHER WOMAN has a brand new screenplay and is also a female buddy movie, but this oft-used theme of women getting even does immediately remind one of Olivia Goldsmith’s book and movie called FIRST WIVES CLUB (1996). With its unrealistic and unlikely storyline, THE OTHER WOMAN is a raunchier, edgier take on the subject.

Of course the audience is anticipating how the revenge will play out with the excessive consumption of alcohol including shots. With the clever use of music to quickly move the story forward the movie’s 109 minutes went by at high speed, and there are many gross shocks and surprises ahead, as the three women royally set up their man.

Sports Illustrated model – Kate Upton at 21 years of age- appears to have been cast in her role as the silly bimbo, simply as a result of her upper body size. What the casting agent missed was spotted by every woman in the audience, her cellulite.

Leslie Mann is perpetually typecast in this kind of role although this reviewer was very impressed by the range of her emotionally driven performance. Nicki Minaj (Carly’s secretary) delivers her witty modern day metaphors with great aplomb.

The audience were mainly women, and from their constant laughter, they left their sense of reality at home! They got real pleasure from the rough treatment dealt out to the cheating husband, including the physical injuries. The standard message that men are ‘dogs’ and women are ‘cats’, is yet again reinforced in this movie. Recommended for its target audience.

OFLC Classification: rated M (Sexual references, coarse language and mature themes),

 

 

Published by Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ''Australian Film Censorship Board'' true cinéaste versions of brand new release ''Cinematograph Films''. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ''red carpet Opening Night'' at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ''two house seats'' for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty's Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events. As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall. = = = ★★★★★ = = = Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ''Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week'', plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing. Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ''Software Design Project Manager'', PLUS each evening until quite late - - - Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant - product-placement consultant - mystery-shopper consultant - playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader - arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast - - - ★★★★★ LYNN BELVEDERE ★★★★★ - - - [usr 5] - - -