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The Other Woman Review By: John Meneghetti TV audiences have forgiven characters like Don Draper and Tony Soprano for their marital infidelities over the last several years – possibly awaiting their comeuppance but ultimately drinking in their charm. New relationship comedy The Other Woman doesn’t stand for such caddishness! After finding that they’ve all been sharing the same man, Carly ( Cameron Diaz ), Kate ( Leslie Mann ), and Amber ( Kate Upton ) embark on a mission to make the cheating scoundrel, Mark ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ), regret his philandering. This movie uses humor to paint the heartbreak that unfaithfulness can cause. But instead of portraying female characters who resort to clawing each other’s eyes and weaves out in competition, the three wronged women channel their anger into a wacky revenge scheme that terrorizes Mark in Connecticut, New York, and the Bahamas. The dialogue especially pops when Diaz and Mann lock into quick laugh-inducing exchanges. A

THE OTHER WOMAN Review By: Sue The Other Woman takes male bashing to a whole new level, okay for a Girls Night Out. From the director that made everyone sob like little girls with The Notebook , Nick Cassavetes , comes The Other Woman which is the exact opposite of that heartfelt love story. Instead of everlasting love comes a comedy of revenge and friendship, which starts out slow, and never really finds its feet as it stumbles along with slapstick gags and humorless dialogue. After years of dating all the wrong guys, Carly ( Cameron Diaz ) thinks she may have found a winner in Mark ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ), or at least one good enough to ditch the rest of her beaus and become a one man woman, but Mark proves to worse than the men before him. Opening up with a very Notebook lovey dovey rom-com montage, it is quickly dissolved when Mark goes to bed with Carly but wakes up next to his wife, Kate ( Leslie Mann ). Where Carly was smart and sexy, Kate seems to be the