02/05/2008 WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS What happens in Vegas as that I behave very badly indeed, gamble 24/7 for days on end, drink enough cocktails to sink the Lusitania and wake up with someone entirely unsuitable trying the piece together the gruesome details of the previous three days. Still, that’s what Vegas is for, isn’t it, babeluvers? To lose your mind, morals, sense of reality and inhibitions for a while? And let me tell you now, if it was Mr Ashton Kutcher I found myself waking up with then I’d consider that a result.
Cameron Diaz, however, doesn’t seem to have the same attitude. See, Cameron – who does, as usual, look wonderfully cute – is on a bender in Vegas having been dumped by her bloke (who’s obviously a completely idiot). Ashton is doing more or less the same thing having lost his job. They both arrive in Vegas, hook up, get wrecked and – you know what’s coming next, don’t you, babeluvers? Yep, they wake up in bed together to discover they are now married. Happens all the time in Vegas, doesn’t it? Well, it did to Britney Spears. Allegedly.
The next thing they decide to do is get a divorce, just like Britney, but things are complicated in the meantime when Ashton hits the jackpot on the fruit machines and win £3m. Well, Ashton put the quarter in the machine, but it’s Cameron’s quarter…so who’s money, is it? If this all starts to sound desperately familiar and not a little predictable and, oh yes, incredibly cheesy, then that’s because it is. But then again, rom-coms are by definition cheesy, n’est-ce pas? You wouldn’t want a feel-bad rom-com with a complex plot now, would you? And you wouldn’t want a rom-com without two perfect, fit specimens to transport you into a fluffy make-believe world and specimens don’t keep much fitter, cuter or more perfect than Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz here. So as shallow as it is the movie delivers what it says on the tin – a few laughs, a warm feeling inside, bright lights, corny script, love’s young dream and Ash and Cam looking fabulous.
You know EXACTLY how it will all pan out. Ash’n’Cam scrap and fight and pretend to hate eachother when forced to live together. Cam winds Ash up by spending half the day in the bathroom, Ash retaliates by peeing in the washing up sink. Usual boy-girl high-jinks. And yes, they end up falling in love, natch. Beautifully simplistic. Official Site Watch the Trailer Back to Cyn's Top Tips |
