“The Other Woman” has some worthwhile moments peppered throughout it’a almost two hour running time, but the bad writing and unoriginal jokes the film is mostly comprised of make for an overall mediocre film.

“The Other Woman” follows Carly (Cameron Diaz), a cosmopolitan lawyer who discovers her boyfriend is cheating on his wife, Kate (Leslie Mann) with her another woman, Amber (Kate Upton). Once the three meet each other and find they all have a mutual hatred for the man of their past affections, Mark (Nickolaj Coster-Waldau), the decide to team up to make his life miserable and help Kate make a clean break in the divorce between her and Mark.  

First off, I don’t think Cameron Diaz was a good choice for this film. Leslie Mann upstages her in almost every scene they share and a lot of Diaz’s jokes fell flat in the shower I went to.  I liked Diaz in “The Sweetest Thing”, but she really falters in “The Other Woman.” Kate Upton didn’t have a lot to do in the film, but she had a few funny lines despite the bad writing she had to work with.

My biggest issue with this movie is how lazy the writing was at times. Do we need a scene of a great dane taking a crap on the floor for no reason? Probably not. Did Nicki Minaj need to be in this film? Again, probably not, but she did have  few good lines for the eight minutes she was on screen.

“The Other Woman’ had potential, and despite a solid cast and some good chemistry, it never really becomes the comedy it could have been. Leslie Mann was good, as was Coster-Waldau, but without a solid script to work with most of the film seems to fall flat.

2 out of 5 Stars