( EW.com ) -- When Cameron Diaz , a type-A corporate attorney — you know this because she wears power skirts and taps officiously on a laptop in a skybox office the size of a swimming pool — gets swept off her feet by a dashing businessman ( `` Game of Thrones ' '' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ) , it all seems too good to be true . Because of course , it is : It turns out he 's got a wife in Connecticut ( Leslie Mann ) and a barely-legal blond ( Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton ) in the Hamptons . Mann , a maniac in floral capri pants , actually makes her mannerisms work here ; she 's so stunned by her husband 's betrayal that she latches onto Diaz like a kewpie-doll barnacle , and the movie becomes an inspired oddball buddy comedy for a good half hour , until the pair track down Upton and all three — `` the wife , the lawyer , the boobs '' — join forces to take Coster-Waldau down . That 's when the movie ( directed by Nick Cassavetes , probably best known for `` The Notebook '' ) gets sillier , and a lot more slapstick . Yes , the guy 's a cheating a**hat , but do we really need Wile E. Coyote tricks like laxatives in his Scotch and female hormones in his morning smoothie ? Nikki Minaj , as Diaz 's ruthlessly bodacious assistant , and Taylor Kinney , as Mann 's sane , handsome brother , both have nice turns , but `` The Other Woman '' really is , in its own broad-strokes way , about just these women , and female friendship . Sisterhood comedies , as rare as they are in the testosterone glut of sequels and superheroes , have been done smarter and better . Still , this one has its own wonky charm and intermittent moments of genuine , depraved hilarity ; it 's like `` Bridesmaids '' drawn in crayon . Grade : B- . See the original story at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
The film stars Cameron Diaz as a corporate attorney . Leslie Mann is the shocked wife . She said it has ` ` wonky . ''