(2.5 out of 5 stars)

Starring Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz as a couple down on their luck singles who accidentally get married in Vegas, this movie gives us some humor once Kutcher uses Diaz’s coin to win the slot machine jackpot. Hilarity ensues … well, sort of.  This comedy has some funny points, but is not complete as one big movie and is just a rehashing of the “what do I do now” scenarios from Knocked Up or The Break Up.

The scariest part of this movie is the sidekicks for Kutcher and Diaz, especially Rob Corddry. His character is annoying, rude, deviant and unsettling. That is probably being a little harsh, but his brand of comedy was not what this movie needed to get a bump. It needed to be funny throughout with a sweet ending, but it wanted to be raunchy with the use of Corddry and its beginning debaucherous scenes while still getting a PG-13 rating. That does not work.

The humor of this movie is found in the idea that two people who accidentally got hitched in Vegas are fighting over money, which a judge tells them will only be split if the two cannot make the marriage work after 6 months. Now, that is unrealistic, but many comedies do not have a realistic premises, so forget about that. This can be a funny concept and Vegas is funny when it has the pairing try and one up the other to cave in and give the money over failing to meet their responsibility in the “marriage.” Kutcher reminded me of his character in Guess Who where he haplessly tries to win over his fiancé’s parents.

Of course, the two are only happy by being themselves, they wreak havoc on each other’s lives and of course, they fall in love. This is pretty formulaic, but it is sweet and is a good enough ending. A better screenwriter would have created a more interesting movie and another screenwriter would have created a funnier movie.  This movie definitely followed Screenwriting 101 and it is no surprise that this is the writer’s first major motion picture.

What happened in Vegas probably should have stayed there, but since it was on DVD, it was amusing enough for a Saturday morning. Diaz and Kutcher have done much better, but at least this one is watchable in the end.