The Other Woman is not just an extremely bad film but also a wholly reprehensible one (she says, with her most disapproving hat on). It’s a comedy, although if you find any of it funny, that’s all I will ever need to know about you, but its unfunniness isn’t what upsets me so much. It’s the dishonesty. It’s being sold as a film that ‘celebrates female friendships’ and ‘is absolutely a feminist movie’ (Cameron Diaz) even though it is an insult to all women everywhere from beginning to end. Who doesn’t realise this? Do they expect us not to realise this? I sincerely hope it flops and won’t attract an audience but, if it does, that may well be all I need to know about humankind, and I’ll just have to throw myself from a bridge or something.
The basic set-up involves three women who plot revenge on the man who is cheating on them all.
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