Three women. Three scores to settle. A comedic tale of revenge that will make you laugh as hard as they fight back.
From Nick Cassavetes, the director of My Sister’s Keeper (2009) comes a romantic comedy that you must see. Starring Cameron Diaz the film follows a middle aged woman who realizes her boyfriend (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is actually married, and teams up with his scorned wife Kate (Leslie Mann) to take him down.
Comedy is this film’s greatest strength. Between Leslie Mann’s constant whiny crying that evokes images of Janice from Friends, Diaz’s feisty fury and the discovery of a third mistress (Kate Upton), a bimbo at that, there were just too many laughs to count. Revenge, justice and female bonding are the primary themes of the film. Over the course of the film the women share some intense emotional moments, I particularly make reference to the beach scene where Kate removes her wedding ring, and end their journey a close trio, each having found something they didn’t have before.
This is one of those films where you know the women will get the revenge they deserve and that justice will be served, but it is highly enjoyable watching the process. The slimy husband Mark, beginning as a hunky masculine Jamie Lannister in a suit, ultimately has his dark and seedy personality externalized in the final moments of the film. Courtesy of a few glass panels and a lack of intelligence he ends up a bloody mess on the streets of New York, facing divorce, and the loss of his network of mistresses. Better luck next time Mark.
-JoelE
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