Cert 12A
109 mins
BBFC advice: Contains: Infrequent strong language, moderate sex references
Well done to the lass who was sitting behind me in screen 2 of Nottingham Cineworld on Thursday evening.
She laughed from the beginning to the very end of The Other Woman. I did not.
Frankly, I felt less uncomfortable when I watched Tinker Bell And The Pirate Fairy (well, nearly).
I presume I was the only single middle-aged bloke in the auditorium but I kept my head so far down that I didn't make eye contact with anyone else.
Anyway, please accept that, while I say that I struggled to have any empathy towards The Other Woman this is only my perspective and I am certainly not the target audience.
But it did make me wonder if a movie was as anti-women as much as this is anti-men, whether it would be criticised for being misogynistic clap-trap. I suspect so.
In Nick Cassavetes comedy, three wronged women join forces to extract revenge on an adulterous fraudster, Mark King, (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).
But the problem I have is that while the fella is an obvious bad lad, I couldn't see much to recommend the women.
Firstly, there is the wife (Leslie Mann) who admitted that she needed to go to 'brain camp'.
Then there is the mistress (Cameron Diaz) who 'cleared the bench' when she started going out with Mark, unaware that he was married. Doesn't that indicate she was previously a serial two-timer?
And, Kate Upton plays a 22-year-old who throws her not inconsiderable cleavage in the direction of the very obviously wealthy but also very obviously middle-aged Mr King.
But let's not allow over-analysis to get in the way of a good giggle, ladies, shall we?
The Other Woman is bathed in shrieking, overwrought women getting their own back on a lothario amid a sea of slapstick.
It wasn't terrible but I am staggered that it could make anyone laugh as much as the woman sitting behind me.
Laughs: one for me (hysterical cackling from some in the audience)
Jumps: none
Vomit: yes but off screen
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 5/10