My sis and I rounded out Mother’s Day last night with a trip to the movies. We both needed a laugh. Me because, well, if you’re a regular reader you’ll know why … And my sister because she slipped on her front step the other day and gave herself a nasty injury that’s left her wincing.
So we went to see The Other Woman. Despite the scathing reviews … how could we not with an enticing title like that and costume design by Sex And The City‘s Patricia Field …
And we laughed our heads off. Not at the start. The start was a little too close to the bone for me. I was painfully worried about being too much like the blathering, dressing-gown clad Leslie Mann character. And not at the end. The end went too far and lost the plot. But there were some hilarious bits in the middle.
Leslie Mann – despite freaking me out – was hilarious (she was awesome in This Is 40 as well) as she pratfalled around (loved the scene above where she watched her wedding video in her wedding dress and alternately poured spray cream and vodka into her mouth), and it was fascinating to see Cameron Diaz looking so glamorous in a kinda … old … way. I don’t think she’s doing the botox thing and it’s quite refreshing.
I know I shouldn’t have laughed at the philandering husband getting a terrible case of the runs – so low rent – but I did.
Vanity Fair critic Richard Lawson on the other hand wrote about the scene: “That Cassavetes or whatever other powers that be thought it necessary to throw in some scat humor is an unintentional indictment of Hollywood’s stale quadrant thinking. Presumably, all this gross-out stuff is for the boys in the audience, the hooting dopes who can’t sit through all this lady business for too long without someone shitting all over themselves.”
Christopher Rosen at Huffington Post was even more scathing: “Shithouse could be an alternate title for The Other Woman.”
And The New York Times snarled: “This female revenge comedy is so dumb, lazy, clumsily assembled and unoriginal, it could crush any actor forced to execute its leaden slapstick gags and mouth its crude, humorless dialogue.”
Ah, don’t take yourselves so seriously guys … I can think of worse ways to spend a Sunday night.
Yep, I’m more with The Toronto Sun, which described it as a “guilty pleasure” that “let it all slide into sappy melodrama at the end”
What’s the funniest movie you’ve seen lately?
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A good laugh is good for the soul!
Ain’t that the truth