What Happens in Vegas
Headline: ** Opposites Attract **
Title: WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -2
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: V
Sex: S
Nudity: N
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: May 9, 2008
TIME: 98 minutes
STARRING: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Dennis Miller, Dennis Farina, Treat Williams, Queen Latifah, and Jason Sudeikis
DIRECTOR: Tom Vaughn
PRODUCERS: Michael Aguilar, Shawn Levy, Jimmy Miller, and Arnon Milchan
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Joe Caracciolo, Jr., and Dean Georgaris
WRITER: Dana Fox
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox
CONTENT: (PaPa, B, Ro, Ho, PC, LLL, V, S, N, AA, MM) Strong general pagan worldview with some light moral comments about marriage, commitment, personal integrity, and love as well as some Romantic attitudes (in the philosophical sense) about following your dreams and a Romantic attitude toward homosexuality that includes a few jokes and a politically correct comment form an authority figure about young heterosexuals messing up the sanctity of marriage rather than homosexuals; about 16 obscenities, two strong profanities, 20 light profanities, two or three "f" words bleeped during song over end credits, and other strong crude references, some sexual and some scatological; light comic violence includes some hitting, slapping and pratfalls; implied fornication in one scene, woman lives with her fiancé before he dumps her suddenly, implied sex after a quickie marriage, and some other crude and not-so-crude sexual references; upper male nudity, female cleavage, unclear image of woman taking a shower behind a door, and women in underwear or skimpy outfits; alcohol use and drunkenness; no smoking or drugs; and, gambling, greed, devious shenanigans, man goofs off at work, man's troubled relationship with father is healed, and couple tries to cheat one another out of $3 million.
GENRE: Romantic Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
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Rupert Murdoch, Chairman/CEO of News Corp.
Peter Chernin, President/COO of The Fox Group
Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos, Chairmen/CEO
Fox Filmed Entertainment
20th Century Fox Film Corp.
10201 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: (310) 369-1000
Website: www.fox.com
SUMMARY: In WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, a quickie marriage results in comical complications when the couple accidentally hits a $3 million jackpot in Las Vegas. WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS has many funny moments, a solid plot structure and even some biblical themes about marriage, commitment and male/female relationships, but the movie's worldview remains somewhat pagan with plenty of foul language and crude references.
IN BRIEF:
In WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, party guy Jack, played by Ashton Kutcher, and strait-laced commodities trader Joy, played by Cameron Diaz, get married after a drunken spree in Las Vegas. They plan to get the marriage annulled but accidentally hit the $3 million jackpot on a slot machine. Both end up back in New York in divorce court over the money, but their lazy attitude toward marriage angers the judge. He orders them to live together for six months and get marriage counseling. A comical battle of wills ensues between Jack and Joy, egged on by their two best friends.
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS has many funny moments. The actors do great, and the plot structure is classical Hollywood. There are some profound biblical themes about marriage, commitment and male/female relationships. For example, the movie's premise echoes the biblical view that, in a good marriage, the woman gives the man special qualities that he needs and vice versa. Together, they become one. Even so, the movie's worldview remains somewhat pagan, with plenty of foul language and crude references. Thus, the negative content in WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS warrants extreme caution.
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