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Starring Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher
Directed by Tom Vaughan
What Happens In Vegas is working with a good premise: a
down-on-their-luck couple meet in Vegas and get married somewhere
during the blurry hours of a long, debauched night.
That Jack and Joy actually despise one other is a minor matter until he
wins $3 million with her coin. Suddenly the quick, easy divorce gets
messy when the judge (“It’s not gays destroying the sanctity of
marriage – it’s you people!”), refuses an annulment and forces them to
cohabit while they work things out.
Yet somewhere between concept and script, the air was sucked out of
Vegas as a more tepid, disspirited comedy you couldn’t hope to watch.
Two, maybe three, bright moments engender a wan smile while the rest of
Fox’s work is flat, self-conscious and by-the-numbers. Even the usually
rewarding presence of Diaz, and to a lesser extent Kutcher, fails to
get this off the ground.
Among slender pickings is a half-joke about ball-sack flavoured
popcorn and a late revelation regarding the relationship between Joy
and Jack’s best friends. It’s not much and not worth waiting for.
On the upside, Kutcher displays ample flesh while Jet make it to the soundtrack. Otherwise What Happens In Vegas should have stayed in Vegas.
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