What Happens in Vegas
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36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 31 Critics What's this?

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5.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 70 Ratings

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  • Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz
  • Summary: For charismatic party guy Jack Fuller and buttoned-up commodities trader Joy McNally, 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 3 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 to "six months hard marriage." Despite the hapless protests of Jack's best friend and legal counsel Steve "Hater" Hader, 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 cohabitation, 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 3 million bucks will stay caught up in a legal battle so long and expensive that no one but the lawyers will ever see a penny of it. Jack and Joy take the bait, only to find themselves locked in a hilarious, patience-testing, panty-twisting game of wild one-upmanship--may the best "pretend spouse" win. Can Jack and Joy survive their six months of "wedded bliss" without killing each other, 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 real? In the end, What Happens in Vegas may prove the biggest surprise of all. (20th Century Fox)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 31
  3. Negative: 14 out of 31
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Travis Nichols
    75
    A first- or second-date flick, after which there can be some Cheesecake Factory and maybe a peck on the cheek, no harm done. What Happens in Vegas is pleasant enough for all of that (and it sidesteps all that "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" raunch).
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Julia Wallace
    60
    The stars, despite having only a fraction of the charm and talent of classic sparring-but-meant-for-each-other duos, know how to mug for the camera and well up on cue, and somehow that turns out to be enough to carry this trifle.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    38
    The screenplay by Dana Fox (she was one of the rewriters of "27 Dresses") devolves into a series of humiliating pranks that always give the upper narrative hand to the male lead. Talk about depressing. I mean, that's what male screenwriters are for--to unfairly stack the deck against the female leads.
  4. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    38
    If you don't see where this is going, you've never seen a movie. Sorry it had to be this one.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 32
  3. Negative: 6 out of 32
  1. MikeH.
    10
    All critics are complaining about cliche... why does a person buy a dvd? to watch the same movie that they like over and over again! so what's wrong with making a movie of the genre that many people like, except with different actors, a different storyline and different jokes!? Obviously the critics would have known what this movie was going to be about, and if they don't like the genre, then why the hell watch the movie and then criticize it for being exactly as it should be. Critics are so stupid it's beyond words... all they're looking for is a movie that makes absolutely no sense, so they can say that it is really smart and appear as if they're the only ones who understand it, thinking this will make them seem like the clever ones… Expand
  2. Ion
    8
    It's a fun movie, better then expected after reading the reviews. I don't know why they dislike it, I enjoyed it and I'm glad I saw it.… Expand
  3. Chris
    7
    I usually live by Metacritic scores, but I didn't think it was that bad!!
  4. Jedi_Jettson
    3
    This movie is so stupid in almost every way. Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher have pretty bad character development due to what immature idiots they play. They don't make a very good couple either. The gags, the jokes, and the dialogue is stupidly sexist and vulgar.… Expand

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