What Happens in Vegas (Widescreen Edition)

Buy This Item What Happens in Vegas (Widescreen Edition) by 20th Century Fox  Available from Amazon  $19.99  on 11-15-2008     After the wildest party night of their lives, two mismatched strangers, Jack (Ashton Kutcher) and Joy (Cameron Diaz), wake up in Vegas to discover they not only got lucky â?" they got married! The road to annulment takes a hilarious turn after Jack wins a three-million-dollar jackpot while playing Joyâ??s quarter and a no-nonsense judge (Dennis Miller) sentences them to six months â??hard marriage.â? What follows is an all-out war of the sexes as Jack and Joy go to outrageous lengths to try and cheat each other out of the money. But in the end, they may learn that when you gamble on love, you just might win, against all odds! Reader Reviews "What Happens in Vegas" opens with the premise that reminds us of "The War of the Roses" and it ends sweetly with the feel-good mood of "When Harry Met Sally..." After getting drunk and spending a night together in Las Vegas, Jack (Ashton Kutcher) and Joy (Cameron Diaz) discover they are married. Next morning they start to hate each other quarrelling in a casino, but the couple must spend six months together as lawfully wedded husband and wife - required by the court order - before they are allowed to use the 3 million dollar jackpot they won. The film's story unfolds more like a farce in the earlier chapters with jokes and gags based on their incongruous combination of personalities, perfectionist and slacker. The jokes include Cameron Diaz's lecture on how to use the toilet. They are not quite original, but are funny. After the main characters stop acting like a child and begin to look at each other more seriously, "What Happens in Vegas" becomes really a romantic comedy. The screenplay has nothing new to add to the overcrowded genre, but the chemistry between Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher somehow draws you in. Still, even those who love this film will admit the script is pretty messy at times. It is slightly off-putting (even with the star power of Diaz and Kutcher) to see a man and a woman fighting over $ 3 million when all they have to do is just split the money and part. In the Vegas scenes the hero and the heroine are not only unlikable; they are unlikely. The film gets better as it goes on, but the contrived set-up clearly needs improvement. Some supports are good, others just forgettable. Rob Corddry steals scenes from the leads as Jack's bumbling friend giving him kindly (but often silly) advice. Queen Latifah also appears as a psychiatrist, but sadly her character has no function in the plot. She just sits and smiles and says nothing interesting. Other supports include Lake Bell, Dennis Farina, Treat Williams, Zach Galifianakis and Dennis Miller as one of the most impossible judges in movie history. "What Happens in Vegas" is an average Hollywood romantic comedy with the absolutely unrealistic premise you must keep forgetting. Whether you like its silliness or not may depend on the mood you're in.

What Happens in Vegas (Widescreen Edition) Available from Amazon Price: $19.99 Updated on 11-15-2008.

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