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This is a decent romantic comedy. It has its moments but for the most part you just can’t wait for to finish already. There are scenes that are just boring plus some situations that mean to be funny but come off as bland, half-hearted and depends solely on physical comedy that deserves only a little chuckle but not anything worth our laughter. At the same time,… it has elements that other romantic comedy has, the parts where the guy and the girl hate each other’s guts and the part where the guy realizes his mistake and apologizes to the girl and they all live happily ever after. But overall, this only proves that what happens in Vegas SHOULD stay in Vegas.

Jack (Kutcher) is irresponsible and just lost his job because his dad fired him. Joy (Diaz) is in love with a boyfriend whose success she can’t seem to keep up with and she gets dumped. The two adults bring their sidekick friends to Vegas, a town where you can party like there’s no tomorrow and forget all your misery. The next morning Jack and Joy wake up to find that they’re married. They’re planning on ending the whole thing until Jack won the lottery by using Joy’s quarter.

All I can say is thank God, there’s Rob Corddry in the house. He’s the guy who plays Ashton Kutcher’s comic relief sidekick in this movie. He was the bald racist Cop in Harold and Kumar 2.
I met him a couple of times at world premieres of two of his movies recently and he’s as funny in person as he is on the big screen.
The jokes in this movie aren’t that funny, I blame the writers, nonetheles Rob Corddry manages to carry his lines and exaggerates them with his quirky, smart ass personality and the result is… something entertaining to keep you awake until the end of the movie.

I really believe that this is the kind of movie only for Ashton fans and Cameron fans because if you’ve seen many romantic comedies all your life then you’d probably think of something like this as okay, or so-so, nothing special.
I think Cameron and Ashton have chemistry that make them compliment each other’s presence but.. there’s always a but… I don’t think Ashton has what it takes to be dramatic just yet. Everytime he tries to do serious, heart to heart moments and you see his big serious face on the screen, you can’t help but laugh a little, thinking he might turn into Kelso from That 70s Show or someone might pop up and say that you’ve been punk’d.
He does have comedic facial expressions, I gotta give him that.

I don’t believe this requires any acting necessary. I think Cameron and Ashton are being themselves, that’s why I say if you’re fans of any of them, then you’d really enjoy this movie.

The story doesn’t strike me as giving enough effort. It lasts more than one and a half hour but it wastes most of that time on useless materials and stuff they’ve revealed so much in the trailers that they become not funny anymore.
Plus, there’s not enough depth in the characters. I do however enjoy the movie’s portrayal on how fun Vegas can be. It reminds us why it was called Sin City in the first place. Man, I love that place!

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