Rotten
The screenplay is awful, the direction is bland and the performances are beyond redemption.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Overview
During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
Director and cast
- Tom Vaughan Director
- Ashton Kutcher as Jack Fuller
- Cameron Diaz as Joy McNally
- Lake Bell as Tipper
- Queen Latifah as Dr. Twitchell
- Treat Williams as Jack Fuller Sr.
- Michelle Krusiec as Chong
- Dennis Miller as Judge Whopper
- Deirdre O'Connell as Mrs. Fuller
- Dennis Farina as Richard Banger
- Jason Sudeikis as Mason
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
26%
Tomatometer
Fresh
What Happens in Vegas contains enough unbridled silliness to salvage its lowbrow high concept.
John Anderson, Newsday
Rotten
What Happens in Vegas... should have stayed in development -- forever. This ramshackle -- and occasionally repulsive -- farce doesn't even deliver on the minimal promise of its title; most of it takes place in Manhattan.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Rotten
What Happens in Vegas refuses to take a gamble. Like a bleary-eyed gambler repeatedly tossing a pair of dice, it tiredly goes through the motions.
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Fresh
Here's a romantic comedy that is goofy, highly implausible, sometimes over the top, often in bad taste, and resolutely empty-headed. In short, it's the best example of its genre to appear on the screen this year.
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star
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