The Other Woman is the story of when a jilted wife finds her husband’s mistresses, and they all become fast friends and plot his downfall. It sounds hokey and parts of this film certainly are, but it is also laugh-out-loud funny at times.
Obviously if you’ve seen the trailer for this, you know the story, and there are no surprises here, no great sweeping plot twists. It is straight forward, but what makes it work is the dialogue between the women. Though admittedly I’m a little tired of Leslie Mann (I’m pretty sure she speaks the same way, and exhibits the same mannerisms in every film she’s ever been in), her back-and-forth with Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton is funny. There are a couple nice lean-on-me scenes too, for Leslie’s character in particular, since it is her husband and he has always controlled everything and she’s feeling lost. Don’t get me wrong, there isn’t anything deeper than a kiddie pool in this movie, but it is (a little) more than just laughs.
The movie does slow towards the last third of the film, when the plot actually starts advancing and the laughs don’t come as often, and the ending is pretty rough even for die-hard chick flick movie goers, but there are definitely worse comedies to spend some time on.
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