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What Happens in Vegas (Extended Jackpot edition with digital copy) 
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Written by Paul Salo   
Thursday, 07 August 2008


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What Happens in Vegas (Extended Jackpot edition with digital copy)

Grade

Content Grade: D+
Sound Grade: C
Picture Grade: C-

Specs

Extended Edition 2008
Studio/Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Studio/Label Website: http://www.foxhome.com/foxhome_main.html
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound Options and Formats: Dolby, Dubbed, English & Spanish subtitles
Disc Length: 101 minutes

Review

      What Happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas, because it’s getting pretty ridiculous how quickly Hollywood shoots these films and spends absolutely no time on the screenplay. This romantic comedy stars Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher as New Yorkers who escape to Las Vegas from their dismal lives with their best pals. These two troubled souls meet up by way of a hotel room mix up and through a night of heavy drinking and commiserating over their depressing existence, the couple wind up getting married. The honeymoon is almost immediately over when they confront each other to agree on the annulment. But for the sake of a plot device, Kutcher’s character accidentally spends Diaz’s last quarter in a slot machine that ends up spewing out three million dollars.
     Hoping to resolve the situation quickly, Kutcher and Diaz expect to split the money and go their separate ways but a judge on a mission ruins their plans and forces the couple to stay together for a month, giving them a real shot at making this faux marriage work. Chaos ensues when the two of them plan devious traps to try and make the other give up on the marriage, thus forfeiting the three million dollars to the other half.

 

     The movie moves too fast in the beginning to get us to care about these characters. They’re in Vegas so quickly that we haven’t had time to learn their names. The thing with the judge freezing the three million dollars and forcing our two main characters to stay married is way too unbelievable. I don’t know much about our legal system, but I’m fairly certain that his ruling is cruel and unusual and not legal. It’s just not plausible. That’s where I’m immediately disconnected from the movie. Yes we hear about people going to Vegas and getting married on a spur of the moment type-a-thing but then you also hear about them getting the union dissolved within like 48 hours. The whole plot is insulting to the viewers, that is if the viewers know anything about our legal system.
     The only really redeeming quality this movie has is maybe Rob Corddry’s performance. It’s probably his adlibbing and delivery of the lines that might save this movie from being completely in the dumps. But Corddry deserves better than this. This romantic comedy is like any other, two feuding people duke it out for a while but then change their mind when they start to listen to one another. They soon find out they were meant for each other and practically live happily ever after.


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Picture and Sound

The version of the movie that I watched was a screener and it definitely showed. I'm sure the professional DVD will be fine.

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The special features include:
Audio Commentary with Director and Editor
Sitting Down with Cameron and Ashton
From the Law Firm of Stephen J. Hader, Esq.
DVD Extra Time with Zach Galifianakis
Gag reel
An Inside Look at “Marley and Me”
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