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• Director: Tom Vaughan
• Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry,Treat Williams, and Dennis Farina •
RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes
• RATING: *1/2
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz, each having suffered a crushing disaster (she, dumped; he, fired), have gone to Vegas for some healing.They meet one drunken evening, and they have Olympicquality sex.Alas, they also get married. Okay, time for quickie divorce, no harm, no foul; except she gives him a quarter, he feeds it into a slot machine and they win $3 million.Who gets it? Greedily, each tries to get the whole pot, and an irritable judge (Dennis Miller at his snarkiest) isn’t satisfied they’ve tried hard enough, so he sentences them to live together, as man and wife, for six months.The judge sets rules as well, so that it is to each’s advantage to get the other to break them.
Thus the movie is a pas de deux, in which each tries to goad the other into subverting the marriage arrangement. In any event, the best thing about the fight is how unfairly each wages it and how the campaigns are based on the classical fault lines of boy-girl cohabitation.
Washington Post
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz hate on each other with dynamite verve in What Happens in Vegas.The Punch and Judy fireworks get off to an early start, when the two wake up in Las Vegas only to learn that they got hitched during what should have been a sloshed one-night stand.To lay claim to a $3 million slot-machine payoff (one pulled the lever, the other provided the quarter), the two are forced to live together for six months as husband and wife, and I would say that the romantic hilarity just ensues from there, except that Kutcher and Diaz diss each other with such eye-rolling, fang-baring, sexually sarcastic conviction that you may think you’ve wandered into a dinner-theater revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring (and rewritten by) Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman.
Entertainment Weekly
Joy McNally (Diaz) is an uptight commodities trader recently dumped by her Wall Street fiancé (Jason Sudeikis). Jack Fuller (Kutcher) is a slacker carpenter recently fired by his own father.They come together on the other side of the country when a computer glitch lands them in the same Las Vegas hotel room. Joy and Jack get smashed, realise they’re meant for each other and wake up married. Horrified, they get into an argument about who is dumping whom, which somehow ends with Jack winning a $3-million jackpot with Joy’s quarter. Next thing you know, they’re in court to determine who gets what. Unfortunately for them, Judge Whopper (Dennis Miller) orders them to ‘six months hard marriage.’ If they fail, he'll tie up the $3 million in so much litigation neither one would ever see a dime.
Los Angeles Times
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz star as a mismatched couple who meet cute in Las Vegas, get rip-roaringly drunk and tie the knot. In Vegas Kutcher and Diaz are consigned to the same room, booze is guzzled, inhibitions disappear and they wake up married. Sobered up the next morning, they can’t stand the sight of each other.The ante is upped when Kutcher tosses Diaz’s quarter into a slot machine and hits the jackpot. Each party insists the $3 million is theirs and turns to a court to adjudicate the winnings. Judge Whopper (Dennis Miller) sentences the couple to ‘six months of hard marriage’ and orders both to see a marriage counselor (Queen Latifah) and some of the pair’s funnier moments together are on her couch.
USA Today
• Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry,Treat Williams, and Dennis Farina •
RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes
• RATING: *1/2
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz, each having suffered a crushing disaster (she, dumped; he, fired), have gone to Vegas for some healing.They meet one drunken evening, and they have Olympicquality sex.Alas, they also get married. Okay, time for quickie divorce, no harm, no foul; except she gives him a quarter, he feeds it into a slot machine and they win $3 million.Who gets it? Greedily, each tries to get the whole pot, and an irritable judge (Dennis Miller at his snarkiest) isn’t satisfied they’ve tried hard enough, so he sentences them to live together, as man and wife, for six months.The judge sets rules as well, so that it is to each’s advantage to get the other to break them.
Thus the movie is a pas de deux, in which each tries to goad the other into subverting the marriage arrangement. In any event, the best thing about the fight is how unfairly each wages it and how the campaigns are based on the classical fault lines of boy-girl cohabitation.
Washington Post
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz hate on each other with dynamite verve in What Happens in Vegas.The Punch and Judy fireworks get off to an early start, when the two wake up in Las Vegas only to learn that they got hitched during what should have been a sloshed one-night stand.To lay claim to a $3 million slot-machine payoff (one pulled the lever, the other provided the quarter), the two are forced to live together for six months as husband and wife, and I would say that the romantic hilarity just ensues from there, except that Kutcher and Diaz diss each other with such eye-rolling, fang-baring, sexually sarcastic conviction that you may think you’ve wandered into a dinner-theater revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring (and rewritten by) Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman.
Entertainment Weekly
Joy McNally (Diaz) is an uptight commodities trader recently dumped by her Wall Street fiancé (Jason Sudeikis). Jack Fuller (Kutcher) is a slacker carpenter recently fired by his own father.They come together on the other side of the country when a computer glitch lands them in the same Las Vegas hotel room. Joy and Jack get smashed, realise they’re meant for each other and wake up married. Horrified, they get into an argument about who is dumping whom, which somehow ends with Jack winning a $3-million jackpot with Joy’s quarter. Next thing you know, they’re in court to determine who gets what. Unfortunately for them, Judge Whopper (Dennis Miller) orders them to ‘six months hard marriage.’ If they fail, he'll tie up the $3 million in so much litigation neither one would ever see a dime.
Los Angeles Times
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz star as a mismatched couple who meet cute in Las Vegas, get rip-roaringly drunk and tie the knot. In Vegas Kutcher and Diaz are consigned to the same room, booze is guzzled, inhibitions disappear and they wake up married. Sobered up the next morning, they can’t stand the sight of each other.The ante is upped when Kutcher tosses Diaz’s quarter into a slot machine and hits the jackpot. Each party insists the $3 million is theirs and turns to a court to adjudicate the winnings. Judge Whopper (Dennis Miller) sentences the couple to ‘six months of hard marriage’ and orders both to see a marriage counselor (Queen Latifah) and some of the pair’s funnier moments together are on her couch.
USA Today
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