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What Happens In Vegas...
Starring Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Lake Bell, Queen Latifah, Krysten Ritter, Dennis Farina
Directed by Tom Vaughan ('Starter for 10')
Written by Dana Fox
Comedy | 1hr 35mins | Rated (M) | Offensive Language & Sexual References | Origin: USA
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Jack (Ashton Kutcher) and Joy (Cameron Diaz) meet each other while drowning their sorrows on a drunken night in Vegas (He’s just been fired by his father, she’s just been dumped by her corporate bore of a boyfriend). They wake up with a splitting headache, finding themselves married to each other and discovering that they’re none too pleased about it. After a painless decision to get divorced as soon as possible, matters are complicated when Jack wins three million dollars from a slot machine by using Joy’s quarter.
If that’s not unbelievable enough already, just wait for the courtroom scene with the judge who commands them to say married for six months just because he doesn’t like how they are destroying the sanctity of marriage. And, if you’re not yet rolling your eyes in disbelief, wait for the moment when Joy turns down one and a half million dollars on principle. We need some sort of believable structure for the comedy to be attached to, but What Happens in Vegas is just one long unlikely conceit.
At least Cameron and Ashton look like they’re having fun. Neither seem like people we know, just two oddly alienated good-looking excuses for real humans, but they fit together as a pair. Events play out with timed precision, and before long that happy ending hits us. We’re expected to cheer, I’m sure, but I couldn’t care less.
Director Tom Vaughan, who previously made Cold Feet and Starter For Ten, leaves no discernable stamp on his American feature debut. This rom com is inoffensively mundane. Will appeal to some before disappearing into the black hole at the back of the video store.
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Christchurch Press [James Croot]
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1/2 The latest crime against romance (and tourism in Nevada) is this stunningly unfunny tale of when Joy (Cameron Diaz) met Jack (Ashton Kutcher). A New York stock trader, Joy is well known for making a plan to make plans.
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Empire Magazine [UK]
Darker shades are swerved, subtlety snubbed, and invention avoided, as director Tom Vaughn, who got going with Starter For Ten, reveals no sign whatsoever of developing into an interesting director. So predictable are his moves, you’ll think you’ve developed a cinematic sixth sense: ‘I see punchlines’.
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NZ Herald [Francesca Rudkin]
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This isn't a typical sweet and sugary yawn-inducing love story, this is more a bitch-slapping battle of the sexes aimed as much at guys as girls.
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ReelViews [James Berardinelli]
Sadly, about the nicest thing I can say about What Happens in Vegas is that I didn't hate it - although I suppose that's something.
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TV3 [Kate Rodger]
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1/2 Knowing where the box office gravy train is heading doesn't have to stop you enjoying the journey, but this film just wasn't fresh enough to make it worth the trip.
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Urban Cinefile [Australia]
Director Tom Vaughan keeps the pace snappy and slides the tempo up and down as required. I had a good time with this upbeat mainstream comedy that never pretends to be anything other than what it is - and that's fun.
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Variety [USA]
This two-seated star vehicle for top-billed Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz wrings a respectable number of laughs from a formulaic scenario about attracted-opposites who bicker and back-stab their way toward happily-ever-aftering.
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