Deborah Ross

If The Other Woman is a box-office hit, I’m going to have to top myself

This film is wholly unfunny, and also wholly reprehensible

Failing the Bechdel test: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Cameron Diaz in ‘The Other Woman’ [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 26 April 2014

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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