A drunken night in Vegas turns into true love for Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. Unfortunately, it didn't turn
into a very good movie.
Diaz plays Joy, a Wall Street trader who decides to throw a surprise party for her fiance. The surprise turns out
to be that he dumps her and their friends hear every word. Kutcher is Jack, a slacker who gets fired by his dad from
the family closet-making business.
To help get over their disappointment, they each grab a friend and head to Las Vegas. A mix-up in rooms leads to
the four being thrown together, which leads to Joy and Jack getting married just hours later, which leads to Joy and Jack
deciding to divorce just hours after that. But, they can't get away clean. Jack puts one of Joy's quarters in
a slot machine and hits the jackpot. When they get back to New York, judge Dennis Miller sentences them to six months
of hard marriage before he'll grant a divorce and divvy up the cash.
Overall review: ** The movie is a comedy, so you know going in that Jack and Joy will fall in love
in the end. Unfortunately, watching them get there isn't as much fun as it should have been. The movie has
its moments, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the humor here was largely mean-spirited and went for belly laughs when
a little bit of wit would have worked so much better.