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YMMV: The First Wives Club
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- Acceptable Targets: Younger women, every one of whom is portrayed badly. And men, of course.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: As of 2013, all the Younger Women are in their forties, the same age our dumped protagonists are.
- Hollywood Pudgy: Brenda obsesses over her weight in several scenes and is taunted about it by her ex's new girlfriend, when she couldn't be anymore than a size 10 or 12. It's particularly glaring in one scene where's she's thrilled at finally losing some weight, yet looks precisely as she has throughout the movie.
- Unfortunate Implications: There isn't a single young woman in this movie who isn't portrayed as a gold-digging, airheaded tramp, fully deserving of the verbal abuse that is constantly hurled at them, which is of course, played for laughs and/or seen as perfectly acceptable. About the only younger woman given any intelligence is Annie's therapist, and even then, she's still a rotten person—extremely unethical and manipulative: she's been having an affair with the husband of her patient while all the time having considerable sway over Annie.
- Curious that Annie never took revenge on her therapist, considering all she would have to do is report her and subsequently ruin her career.
- Additionally, the four men are made to be the villains in the divorce proceedings, even though NONE of them are pulling the stunts that the wives are. This film may been seen as approaching Lifetime Movie OF The Week-levels of "women as victims/heroines and men as villains."
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