What Happens in Vegas

Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com

What Happens in Vegas really could have stayed on the cutting room floor to be perfectly honest. There’s just nothing new here; it’s a very standard, stereotypical romantic comedy that will somehow make tons of money I’m sure. The formula is followed to the tee so there are no surprises but I will say that both Cameron Diaz and especially our boy Ashton Kutcher have never looked better! So while I wasn’t really entertained by the movie I was never bored by the plentiful shots of the half naked Kutch.

Kutcher plays a hapless lay about who’s just been fired by his dad for being too much of a slacker who refuses to follow through on anything or to take his life seriously; and his response is of course to prove his dad absolutely right by picking up and going to Vegas with his loser friend, Hater played by Rob Corddry. Now at the exact same time that this is happening to poor Jack Fuller (Ashton Kutcher) in Brooklyn, across the river in Manhattan, Joy McNally (Cameron Diaz) is being dumped by her uppity fiancé, Mason (Jason Sudeikis) and her best friend’s advice on how to deal with this shocking turn of events is, you guessed it, to let lose and just have some fun in Vegas! (I’m going to skate by the fact that her best friend played by the gorgeous Lake Bell is named Tipper... and she’s a bartender... yeah... ouch)

When the happy twosomes arrive at their hotel in Vegas, which is surprisingly opulent despite the whole ending a marriage and losing a job thing, they are accidentally thrown into the same room initialing ‘the meeting.’ A few drinks and a night out on the town later Jack and Joy are married hit the jackpot for 3 Million dollars and are sentenced to stay married for at least 6 months or else forfeit the cash. You all know where it goes from here. At first they hate each other and do everything they can to sabotage the other so they can keep all the money for themselves but over the course of the half year spent together they develop feelings and fall in love... blah, blah, blah.

As I said, nothing new but in a time when so many movies are all about keeping their secrets like the amazing Sex and the City which I absolutely loved but can’t tell you why and the secrete Sam Jackson scene in Iron Man that they didn’t even show to the press so