Basically…
Wife Kate (Leslie Mann) and bit on the side,
Carly (Cameron Diaz), become the most unlikely friends when they discover
they’ve both been played by the same man (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). But when they
then realise Mark’s been cheating on them both with a third girl (Kate Upton),
the trio unite to hit him where it hurts the most.
In other words…
Crazy chicks unleash the girl power.
The main men and leading ladies…
Diaz is perfectly
cast as the sexy, independent and cold hearted bitch who fights the affections
of her boyfriend’s wife when they first meet. She’ll never be Mary again but
she still knows how to pull off the hot plumber outfit.
Mann for once
doesn’t play the highly-strung parent and instead takes on a more childlike
persona which unfortunately borders on annoyingly irritating before not too
long. Despite Mann’s character facing the biggest journey of all three women, it’s Diaz who makes sure hers pulls off the
most emotional and life changing transformation.
In the chair…
After the likes of
My Sister’s Keeper and The Notebook it’s nice to see Nick Cassavetes take on a
less emotional tearjerker and encourage laughter. He approaches the direction
in a predictable and simple manner though, and doesn’t leave much to the
imagination.
So…?
As original as the
plot is for a typically mundane braindead chick flick – it fails to remember
its target audience. If the majority watching the movie are women, why fill it
with dated clichés and sexist attitudes? In fact adding together the sultry
Diaz, boobalicious Upton and severe lack of eye candy for the ladies, it feels like
it’s directed at completely the opposite group of people who will actually pay
money to see this film. It had potential but it’s lack of laugh out loud jokes
made it no more than a far fetched story with little for the female audience to
relate to. Like Bridesmaids it’s a mean-spirited revenge flick…but it’s just not as
witty (and Bridemaids isn’t even that funny so that’s saying something).
Worth the money?
Paying not to laugh? You work it out…
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