Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Michelle
Krusiec, Dennis Farina, Krysten Ritter, Jason Sudeikis, Queen Latifah, Zach
Galifianakis, Treat Williams.
Description: 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 ?" they got married! The road to annulment takes a hilarious turn after
Jack wins a three-million-dollar jackpot while playing Joy??s quarter and a
no-nonsense judge (Dennis Miller) sentences them to six months ??hard
marriage.? 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!
Review: "What Happens
in Vegas" is not an insightful or intelligent movie, but it actually works. It's
a juvenile romantic comedy, perfect for those who like their love stories a
little on the immature side. Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz play their roles
like teenagers trapped in adult bodies, spending most of the film as spouses
scheming to make each other's life a living hell. An uncredited Queen Latifah
plays a marriage therapist who says the two were made for each other, despite
having individual issues that need to be worked out. I immediately replayed the
events of the film in my head and realized she was right; one is the other's
emotional equal, and both will willingly do what it takes to make sure they come
out on top. While none of this makes for a funny movie, and while the story is
completely predictable, it was still interesting to watch these characters
interact with one another...more
Extras: Commentary by
director Tom Vaughan, "Sitting Down With Cameron and Ashton" featurette,
"From the Law Firm of Stephen J. Hader, Esq." featurette, "DVD Extra Time
With Zach Galifianakis," gag reel, "An Inside Look at 'Marley and Me',"
digital copy.
Available as a single DVD, in an Extended "Jackpot"
Edition two-disc DVD set, and on Blu-ray Disc. (Fox).
Movie Spotlight
What Happens in Vegas Release
Date: May 9, 2008 Studio: 20th Century Fox Director: Tom Vaughan Screenwriter: Dana Fox Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Treat Williams,
Dennis Farina, Jason Sudeikis, Lake Bell, Queen Latifah Genre: Comedy, Romance MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some sexual and crude content, and language,
including a drug reference) Official Website:
WhatHappensinVegasmovie.com
Plot Summary: The popular expression, "What happens in Vegas, stays in
Vegas" conjures up a veritable jackpot of shed inhibitions, insane indulgence,
and gleeful debauchery. And if you can remember any of it, you probably weren't
there.
But what would happen if a few crazy--okay, hugely inebriated--moments in Sin
City not only didn't "stay" there but also followed you all the way back home
and threatened to turn your life upside down? That's the setup that explodes
into a series of outrageous consequences for two sexy, if wildly mismatched,
strangers in the comedy "What Happens in Vegas."
For charismatic party guy Jack Fuller (Ashton Kutcher) and buttoned-up
commodities trader Joy McNally (Cameron Diaz), a rowdy weekend coincidentally
shared in Las Vegas should have, by all rights, ended up being little more than
a random blur. That is, if these two vacationing New Yorkers didn't have a
signed marriage license staring them in the face to shockingly remind them of
the giant misstep they took while feeling no pain, Vegas-style.
Stacking the deck, not only did Jack and Joy tie the knot after tying one on,
but later scored a mind-blowing three million bucks in a slot machine bonanza.
Well, Jack won it with Joy's quarter. At the machine she'd already been playing.
Or was it the other way around? And whose loot is it anyway?
Therein lies the weird hand dealt this bickering duo who take their predicament
back to Manhattan only to be sentenced by the intractable Judge Whopper (Dennis
Miller) to "six months hard marriage." Despite the hapless protests of Jack's
best friend and legal counsel Steve "Hater" Hader (Rob Corddry), Whopper refuses
to grant Jack and Joy an annulment, freezes the prize booty, and forces the
irresponsible couple to prove they have done everything humanly possible to make
their impromptu marriage work. This includes co-habitation, weekly counseling
sessions, and doing something the old school Whopper believes Jack and Joy's
"generation" hates to do: try. Otherwise, the judge guarantees, the three
million bucks will stay caught up in a legal battle so long and expensive no one
but the lawyers will ever see a penny of it.
I now pronounce you man and wife. For real.
Jack and Joy figure, "Fine, how hard can it be" and take the bait only to find
themselves locked in a hilarious, patience-testing, panties-twisting game of
wild one-upmanship--may the best "pretend spouse" win.
The battle of the sexes has never had a pair of gladiators like Jack and Joy,
not to mention their partners in crime--Jack's hair-trigger buddy "Hater" and
Joy's take-no-prisoners gal pal Tipper (Lake Bell), who despise each other with
almost as much venom as do Jack and Joy. Throw in Jack's demanding father, Jack,
Sr. (Treat Williams); Joy's hard-driving boss, Banger (Dennis Farina); her
snooty ex-fiance, Mason (Jason Sudeikis); and a savvy shrink named Dr. Twitchell
(Queen Latifah), and pretty soon there's a whole team of folks making Jack and
Joy's frantic charade that much crazier.
Can Jack and Joy survive their six months of "wedded bliss"--without killing
each other first--and ultimately cash in for the big payoff? Or will the fiery
sparks that ricochet between them actually ignite, turning a fake relationship
into something astonishingly real?
In the end, what happens in "What Happens in Vegas" may prove the biggest
surprise of all.
EN 5 Second Review:
A quirky, fun date movie you both can enjoy
"Vegas"
is Funny and Warm Colin Covert: Star-Tribune
By being a smidge smarter than the average date movie, it
makes the first-time meeting, the battle of the sexes and the bumpy
course of true love entertaining despite overfamiliarity...more
You
know it's disposable, sentimental trash, and yet at the same
time Diaz hasn't been this charming since "There's Something
About Mary," Tom Long: Detroit News
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz almost pull off Vegas
despite everything. And there's quite a bit of everything...more
EN 5 Second Review:
A quirky, fun date movie you both can enjoy
You
know it's disposable, sentimental trash, and yet at the same
time Diaz hasn't been this charming since "There's Something
About Mary," 