The Other Woman - C-

Rated R, 109 minutes

Kate Upton, Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann

Mann steals predictable, unoriginal "Woman" from Diaz

The new female revenge comedy "The Other Woman" was clearly designed for mega star Cameron Diaz, but in the end Leslie Mann (of "This is 40" and also known as Mrs. Judd Apatow) walks off with the movie and the best lines. After discovering her boyfriend Mark ("Game of Thrones" handsome Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is married, Carly (Cameron Diaz) tries to get her ruined life back on track and somehow befriends Mark's wife Kate (Mann). When another affair with the young, busty Amber (Kate Upton), is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the cheating, lying, three-timing Mark. Directed by Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook") "The Other Woman" is a mildly entertaining, predictably vulgar and otherwise sexist rehash of "The First Wives Club" with less Midler and too much Diaz. Diaz, Mann and Upton are clearly no Midler, Hawn and Keaton, though Mann comes the closest in a fun role that shows off her comic physicality and her away of making the script seem much funnier than it really is. Worst of all is swimsuit model Upton, who is wasted in the film's dumbest role - yes the biggest boob of this group has the biggest boobs - (not to mention singer Nicki Minaj, who needlessly yet thankfully appears only briefly) - while the lovely Diaz, without Upton's boobs or Mann's comic abilities, is lost and looking older than her age. For those thinking this is a nod to feminism, it's clearly not given that it all revolves around the women making their lives better over a man. On that note, the hijinks, including spiking said man's food and drink with female hormones or a laxative, are stupid and unoriginal, and the come-uppance climax is so calculated it can be foretold within the first few frames of the film. "The Other Woman" should really be called "The Other Mann," given that the hilarious Mann steals the movie (whether panicked, drunk or sobbing, she's a hoot) and the film would be a total disaster without her. Leave it a Mann to make it all better.

Wes's Grade: C-