While Diaz and Kutcher work through their stock repertoire of winsomeness, the second bananas steal the show.
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05/07/08
What Happens in Vegas (2008)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:36
Rotten:93
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: What Happens in Vegas has a few laughs, but mostly settles for derivative romantic comedy conventions and receives little help from a pair of unlikable leads.
Theatrical Release:May 9, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $80,199,843
Synopsis: Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher star as strangers who wake up a married couple after a crazy night in Las Vegas in director Tom Vaughn's (STARTER FOR 10) feature film. Joy (Diaz) is the type of... [More]
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Queen Latifah
Director: Tom Vaughan
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Reviews for What Happens in Vegas
attempts nothing novel in its retelling of the couple who don't realize that they are perfect for each other, aside from positing an unsavory new popcorn topping
05/26/08
From seeing this movie and talking to several moviegoers, I discovered that there are two kinds of people: people who like Ashton Kutcher, and people who don't.
06/04/08
The battle for the human heart has official morphed from witty, sophisticated banter between star-crossed lovers to something akin to mixed martial arts.
05/08/08
What Happens in Vegas . . . should have stayed in Vegas. Or in New York, where most of this predictable, uninspired film takes place. Or in Hollywood, where such lamebrained ideas are hatched.
05/08/08
What Happens in Vegas is a clever concept lamely executed.
05/09/08
If I had anything kind to say about Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz before this film, I'm ready to take every word back...a shrill monstrosity of a romantic comedy.
05/08/08
This derivative rom-com works best when the leads are exacting revenge on each other.
07/19/08
What Happens in Vegas feels oddly stilted yet desperate, as though its principals felt the need to overcompensate for the too-neat symmetry of opening scenes with over-the-top violence and bright orange tans.
05/09/08
Top CriticDirected by Tom Vaughan and written by Dana Fox, who also wrote the excruciating The Wedding Date, this film often seems improvised, and not in a good way. Some setups go nowhere, and some jokes never get set up at all.
05/09/08
What happens in Vegas is nobody has much fun.
05/09/08
The supporting players save What Happens in Vegas from rom-com infamy.
05/09/08
Not the sin some claim it to be.
05/10/08
What happens in Vegas is exactly what you would expect: It's formulaic, slapsticky, silly and loud, until it goes all gooey in the end.
05/09/08
Top CriticWhat Happens in Vegas refuses to take a gamble. Like a bleary-eyed gambler repeatedly tossing a pair of dice, it tiredly goes through the motions.
05/09/08
This tone-deaf flick from hack screenwriter Dana Fox, is an example of a Hollywood formula romantic comedy where the author never properly learned the recipe.
05/04/08
The latest uptight chick/slacker dude romantic comedy is so formulaic, you could win big if you placed bets on what's going to happen next.
05/09/08
Joy and Jack are fated to fall in lazy-movie-love.
05/09/08
'What Happens in Vegas' has a similar structure to 'Knocked Up,' only it has neither the unplanned pregnancy, nor the laughs.
05/08/08
Are you laughing yet? Are you moved by these incredible insights? Are you, most likely, looking for the exits?
05/09/08
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