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The Basics: Uptight chick and slacker dude meet in Vegas, get drunk, get married, play the slots, win $3 million, ask a judge for an annulment … but instead get their winnings frozen and are sentenced to "six months hard marriage," try to ruin each other's life, fall in love. Weirdly enough, it's not as awful (but it is just as dumb) as it sounds.
What's the Deal? I've written about this before, so I won't go over it too much again, but my elderly mother lives in a nursing home and sometimes I take her to the movies because, you know, nursing homes can be a drag. And this is exactly the kind of thing she'd enjoy: pretty people, a scenario that will never even happen in the Bizarro World, enough laughs to make you not flat-out hate it for existing and a happy ending.
As Usual: The supporting players get all the best stuff to say and do. Is this some kind of law now — that you'd be way happier watching the movie that was about the wisecracking best girlfriend or the jerkwad best buddy?
Most Recent Film It Steals Its Plot From: Knocked Up, just change out the baby with the money and the funniness with the kinda-sorta funniness.
Question: Which Current Release Is the Most Realism-Bound: This Film, Speed Racer or Iron Man? Answer: Yes. Also, no.
CRITICS' REVIEWS
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RATING
THE GIST
NEGATIVE REVIEWS FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS
Chicago Tribune 1½ stars/4 "… a series of humiliating pranks that always give the upper narrative hand to the male lead." Hollywood Reporter N/A "A mean-spirited streak is creeping into studio-manufactured rom-coms these days …" New York Times N/A "… one of those junky time-wasters that routinely pop up in movie theaters, won't make you laugh much or at all."
MIXED REVIEWS FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS
Entertainment Weekly B- "The insults fly with whip-crack timing …" Los Angeles Times N/A "You can't blame the poor romantic comedy genre for contrivances as tortuous as these." MSNBC N/A "… ultimately turns into a big puddle of mush …" Onion A.V. Club C "The plot is one that makes you feel dumber for having repeated it …" TV Guide 2 stars/4 "… weak chemistry between two likeable actors who, on paper at least, seem perfect for each other …" USA Today 2 stars/4 "Apparently what passes for comedy today is a new form of toilet humor involving the creative use of sinks." Variety N/A "… undemandingly diverting and exceptionally commercial …"
