What Happens in Vegas

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS (12)

D: Tom Vaughan

20th Century Fox/Regency/21 Laps/Mosaic Media/Dune/Penn Station (Michael Aguilar, Shawn Levy & Jimmy Miller)

US 2008

99 mins

Comedy

W: Dana Fox

DP: Matthew F. Leonetti

Ed: Matt Friedman

Mus: Christophe Beck

Cameron Diaz (Joy McNally), Ashton Kutcher (Jack Fuller), Rob Corddry (Jeffrey Lewis), Lake Bell (Toni Saxson), Dennis Farina (Richard Banger)

Modern comedy usually means that a film has more production companies involved in its making than it does jokes. This is certainly the case with this insipid rom-com starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher as a pair of thoroughly unlikable characters, Jack and Joy.

During a drunken night in Las Vegas, the pair get married and instantly regret it the next day, but when Jack wins big on the slots, Joy wants a cut of the share because that's the sort of person she is, and the couple have to stay married because a judge read the script to the movie and if he annulled their union then the film would have only been half an hour long. Personally, I wouldn't have found that a problem.

The film gets its title from the phrase "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." It should have stayed there, preferably unseen in a casino vault, where it should have rotted away over time.

3/10