While Diaz and Kutcher make their clichéd characters as likable as possible, you can bet on this: Any movie named after an already-stale ad campaign isn't likely to gamble on the unexpected.
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05/09/08
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
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.
05/09/08
What Happens in Vegas is about as bubbly as flat champagne. While aiming for an intoxicating blend of high-energy comedy, the romantic comedy's predictable story, and the lack of chemistry between stars Diaz and Kutcher, don't leave it withmuch of a kick.
05/09/08
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
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 CriticA PG-13 sitcom rom-com that desperately wants to be a Judd Apatow movie when it grows up, Tom Vaughan's flat film mixes screwball comedy with self-help clichés to tired effect.
05/09/08
It’s a testament to how good casting can help a film and bad writing can hurt it even more.
05/09/08
None of this is anything we haven't seen countless times before in rom-com land, of course, and it would be giving the filmmakers way too much credit to say they have entertainingly tweaked a winning but cob-webbed formula.
05/09/08
The outcome of What Happens In Vegas is obvious, but the journey there is fun.
05/09/08
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz almost pull off Vegas despite everything. And there's quite a bit of everything.
05/09/08
Who knew the title wasn't simply clever (inviting the rejoiner 'stays in Vegas') but a dire warning of a bad movie ahead?
05/09/08
It was inevitable that an annoying catchphrase would one day become the title for an annoying movie. What Happens in Vegas is not only annoying, it's also incompetent -- a bad mix.
05/09/08
Though likely not a film you'll remember a month after seeing it, it does hit most of the right notes for a good date flick.
05/09/08
The felicitous pairing of Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher overcomes the mechanical setup of this amiable screwball comedy about mismatched Manhattanites who wed in Las Vegas following a drunken first date.
05/09/08
When it was over I felt vaguely embarrassed. I wasn't just leaving a movie theater. I was taking a walk of shame.
05/09/08
Top CriticWhat Happens in Vegas is the kind of terrible mistake performers as big as Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher usually make at the beginning of their careers, when they're anxious to break into the movies, or at the end, when they're struggling for a comeback
05/09/08
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 CriticJoy and Jack are fated to fall in lazy-movie-love.
05/09/08
The supporting players save What Happens in Vegas from rom-com infamy.
05/09/08
...one can't help but wonder if there's anything of interest left to say within this increasingly stale genre.
05/09/08
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