"What Happens in Vegas" is a pleasant screwball comedy with two attractive leads (Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher) that scores a few effective scenes. It's no "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" but it is a cut above this season's other entrant, "Made of Honor." If you like these two actors, you'll enjoy it.
The story is clever: two young people running from recent traumas in their lives meet in Vegas and impulsively get married. Next morning they realize it was a big mistake. Then one of them wins a $3 million jackpot with the other's quarter, and they each want the prize. A judge sentences them to "six months hard marriage" before making a decision on their case.
The situations that ensue as they put on a show of harmony for the judge while trying to undermine the other may be predictable, but writer Dana Fox has a few new twists and some good dialog and we watch these two get to know each other. Director Tom Vaughn, whose "Starter for 10" was a worthy low-budget film that gave us a breakout performance from James McEvoy, here proves himself capable of handling the big budgets and the big stars.
Rated PG-13. 99 minutes. Tom Vaughan - Director, Dana Fox - Writer, Michael Aguilar - Producer, Dean Georgaris - Producer, Shawn Levy - Producer, Matthew F. Leonetti - Cinematographer, Christophe Beck - Composer, Stuart Wurtzel - Production Designer, Matt Friedman - Editor. Distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Principal actors: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Treat Williams, and Dennis Farina.
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