Marcel Winatschek

The Bikini Was the Point

One more romantic comedy and I’m done. I actually mean it this time. Sit through another two hours of this stuff and I’m quitting films entirely.

The Other Woman is the one that breaks me. Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann start out hating each other and end up bonding because their boyfriend was cheating on both of them, and Nicki Minaj shows up too. It’s as exhausting as that pitch sounds. The kind of movie that gets greenlit because two names are attached, not because anyone involved cared about making something.

Kate Upton’s in it, and she’s wearing a bikini for a few minutes on the beach. That’s the entire appeal. That’s what the film is really about. Everything else is just scaffolding around those four minutes.

The trailer shows you the good part anyway. Two minutes of Kate in the bikini, and you’ve got everything that matters. No reason to spend two hours watching the padding when the actual content is in that clip.