What Happens in Vegas

It was a slow movie week for me as we were busy during the holiday weekend and I haven't been able to finish a couple other movies. That said the wife wanted to see a movie on Thursday night and this was the only movie playing at the $2 theater that we had not seen.






What Happens in Vegas (2008)
Directed By: Tom Vaughan
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher




Acting: (2.5) The amazing thing here is not that Ashton Kutcher was not very good, or that Cameron Diaz was her average self (I am not a fan, and I do not think she is good looking...at all), but how incredibly awful the supporting cast was. You may remember Rob Corddry from his role as Warren in Old School or how about the Gun Salesman in Failure to Launch. No? Neither one? Really? Well you will remember his performance here. As being absolutely horrendous. Maybe it was the script, but maybe it is him. Nothing that came out of his mouth was even semi-amusing and his on screen banter with the also atrocious Lake Bell (From "" oh yeah nothing because this is her first role in a recognizable movie) made Diaz and Kutcher look like Oscar winners. I almost wanted to run home and watch Just Married and Any Given Sunday to see if I truly mis-rated them all these years. Turns out that when you surround them with a horrible supporting cast they are still just average.

Effects / Cinematography: (5.5) Completely average nothing horrible, nothing great.

Plot: (2) I was generous when it came to plot, I mean what can be more original than people getting wasted and then getting hitched in Vegas.

Entertainment: (4) I laughed twice and once again was probably too generous.

Cumulative: (3.5) Let's just say I ran home and immediately watched Gladiator to purge all of this movie from my brain. I'm glad the wife was entertained by it (Even she wouldn't admit to it being good).