“The Other Woman” is your typical revenge movie

What do you get when you have Cameron Diaz, the Bahamas, and a spilled secret? An overdone yet still cute movie.

  “The Other Woman” is a movie that was released on April 25, 2014 and has a worldwide gross of a whopping $154,318,751.

The star studded film kicks off in New York City following the new romance of high powered lawyer Carly Whitten (Cameron Diaz) and Mark King (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). After a fight, Carly goes to Mark’s home in Connecticut to surprise him. But she is shocked when Mark’s happy-go-lucky wife Kate King (Leslie Mann) answers the door, finding out for the first time that he is married.

Betrayed, Carly returns to NYC, and Kate comes to see her on a hunch that Mark has been cheating on her. Carly grudgingly consoles Kate, and the two become an unlikely pair of friends and decide to keep their newly acquired knowledge underwraps.

Just as Kate recovers the shock of finding about her husband’s affair, the two discover that Mark has another unknowing mistress, 22-year-old easy going Amber (Kate Upton). Kate and Carly fill Amber in on Mark’s mischief, and the three of them decide to take him down, a plan that consists everything from hormone pills to balding cream.

The movie was well done, but not particularly original. Diaz played the traditional scorned independent woman desperate for revenge. Mark was your typical suave cheater who gets exposed in the end. Upton played the relatively apathetic hot twenty year old who’s in it for the adventure.

There weren’t any big surprises. From watching the trailer, I knew how the story would end-but the film wasn’t eye-rollingly cheesy. “The Other Woman” reminded me a lot of a 2006 movie, “John Tucker Must Die”; same concept of girls finding out their boyfriend wasn’t only theirs. The only difference is “The Other Woman” has feisty grown women instead of angsty teenagers.

Overall, “The Other Woman” is a cute, light hearted movie. It’s the perfect film to see if you’re out on a Saturday night and looking for an easy movie to watch. But the film is by no means a spectacular must see movie. Not fantastic, slightly cliché, but I have no complaints about the fun movie. I give “The Other Woman” three Blue Devils-  it wasn’t anything new, but it’s not bad either.