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Movie Overview
Cast
• Cameron Diaz
• Ashton Kutcher
• Rob Corddry
Director
• Tom Vaughan
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for some sexual and crude content, and language, including a drug reference
What Happens in Vegas (2008)

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OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten
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"Lucky for viewers, it's easy to laugh while watching this romantic comedy, mostly because of the comic skills Kutcher and Diaz bring to their performances."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Betty Jo Tucker

1.5/5
"The battle for the human heart has official morphed from witty, sophisticated banter between star-crossed lovers to something akin to mixed martial arts."  Filmcritic.com  Bill Gibron

D+
"If I had anything kind to say about Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz before this film, I'm ready to take every word back...a shrill monstrosity of a romantic comedy."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

C-
"This tone-deaf flick from hack screenwriter Dana Fox, is an example of a Hollywood formula romantic comedy where the author never properly learned the recipe."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

"Joy and Jack are fated to fall in lazy-movie-love."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

2/5
"'What Happens in Vegas' has a similar structure to 'Knocked Up,' only it has neither the unplanned pregnancy, nor the laughs."  eFilmCritic.com  Dan Lybarger

2/4
"...one can't help but wonder if there's anything of interest left to say within this increasingly stale genre."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

1.5/4
"So moronic it almost makes the recent mediocre Made of Honor seem sophisticated by comparison."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

2/4
"The film gives a transparent spin to the saying that whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but Diaz and Kutcher bring a surprising sweetness to their generic roles and the story's contrived situations."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

C
"I didn't laugh much, and I never felt even an inkling of 'aw, cute!' romance -- but I didn't want to claw my eyes out, either. If that counts as a success, then I guess it's a hit."  Film.com  Eric D. Snider

0/4
"A distinctly awful cover version of 'I Want A New Drug' plays on the soundtrack and is a direct thought to the audience who is going to need something a lot stronger to make it through this unrelentless excuse for a romantic comedy."  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

D
" I am so tired of these miserable things that pass for romantic comedies these days, thoughtless assembly-line products that recycle the same components in ever-dumber packaging over and over again."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

C-
"A movie that just seems to be going through the motions, a thoroughly uninspired rehash of a formula done far better elsewhere."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2.5/4
"Sadly, about the nicest thing I can say about What Happens in Vegas is that I didn't hate it -- although I suppose that's something."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

3/5
"Raunchy romantic comedy has a softer side, too."  Common Sense Media  James Rocchi

4/10
"I only wish they’d have spent more time drunk and in Vegas in the whole movie. Alas…"  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

2.5/5
"ena Tzak Pot sta klise poy paradoksos leitoyrgei anapanteha apotelesmatika, kyrios hari stin yperballoysa karikatoyristiki apeikonisi ton haraktiron poy se stigmes ftanei to anegkefala ksekardistiko kai sti himeia toy zeygoys ton ermineyton"  Movies for the Masses  Joseph Proimakis

B+
"Great counter-programming to Speed Racer and will probably ensure work for Ashton Kutcher until TV Land tries to launch a That 70s Show reunion special."  Film School Rejects  Kevin Carr

D-
"...has nothing to recommend it but the sight of Ashton Kutcher in a pink boa wearing a yard long glass in a cocktail sling...This one shouldclearly have stayed in Vegas."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

2/4
"Ultimately, What Happens in Vegas resembles a drunken night in Sin City; when it's over, you don't really remember what happened except that it wasn't good."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

C
"What should have stayed in Vegas is this movie."  Beliefnet  Nell Minow

1/5
"During the screening, I tried to come up with as many synonyms for the word "excruciating" as I could."  Film Threat  Pete Vonder Haar

1/5
"If What Happens in Vegas serves any purpose, it’s to make me consider spending my gambling money in Reno or on a riverboat instead."  Film Threat  Pete Vonder Haar

1/5
"The end result is easily the worst romantic comedy that you will find in theaters this weekend (or possibly this year) and yes, I am fully aware that "Made of Honor" is still playing."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

3/5
"With a script that only barely hangs together by the skin of its teeth, this romantic comedy survives on the considerable charm of its terrific cast."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

1.5/5
"I just don't know what to make of a scene in which a judge sentences two selfish jerks to "six months hard ... marriage," but I'm simply too old and too smart for material this insipid."  Cinematical  Scott Weinberg

4/10
"As tepid romantic comedies go, they forgot to pack the fun. This one should have stayed in Vegas."  SSG Syndicate  Susan Granger

6/10
"Pleasantly forgettable."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton

3/4
"a funny movie about the sexes that doesn't diminish either gender in its execution--a tougher task, obviously, than one would presume."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw
OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten
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