It's such an oddity when a movie with a theme of such overriding female empowerment turns out being so misogynistic and flat-out embarassing to females. I have to wonder if the screenwriters have ever met any woman in life. And if they were women, if they even considered thinking about any women on this planet when they wrote these characters.
Cameron Diaz's character finds out that her dream boyfriend is married to Leslie Mann's character. After a meeting or two, they are best friends (because that totally happens) and both then find out that their dream man has a dream mistress played by Kate Upton.
The characterization of the female characters sinks this already broken ship. The transition from hating each other to revenge buddies feels so rushed and forced I wondered at times if reels were missing from the movie. Diaz's character is a stiff, Mann's belongs in an institution, Upton's is completely vacuous. So we're supposed to like these people? Why? Because none of them have the brains to just move on? And the less said about Nicki Minaj's complete waste of film role...the better.
All of their hijinks feel terribly amateurish as well. Giving someone laxatives and filming it isn't funny. Giving a male character female hormones to make his tits bigger isn't funny. No matter what the women go through you'll leave this movie feeling like you've been screwed over the hardest.
0/4
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