Movie Review - What Happens in Vegas

Another one of the movies that i had recently caught was the Ashton Kutcher Cameron Diaz starrer What Happens in Vegas.

The Plot:


The movie is about the story of two individuals - Jack Fuller, and Joy McNally. These two individuals are completely different from each other.
Jack Fuller, played by Ashton Kutcher is a lazy brat, who works at his father's furniture factory. He is fired from the factory as he caused other workers enough disruption to stall all work. He tries betting his opportunity at job, but fails. The fault that his father points out is that he cannot stand high pressure situation.

Joy McNally, played by Cameron Diaz, is an employee at the share market. She is committed to her boyfriend Mason, who dumps her on his birthday unintentionally in front of her closest friends. This leaves her broken.

Suffering with their personal tragedies, both of them decide to have a vacation in Vegas, and start afresh. There, Joy and jack meet each other because of a room allocation mistake. Jack during a conversation, challenges Joy for a drinking challenge. They get excessively drunk, and get married while being so.

The next morning when they wake up and realise that it was a mistake. But while discussing about undoing it, they get into an argument. She leaves her quarter while going away from the conversation,which Jack tries on a jackpot machine,and wins 3 million dollars. When jack tries to drive Joy away, she takes him to the court for her share, being his legal wife.

In the court, the court orders them to six months of marriage counselling, and the money would be frozen till then. They both get stuck with each other. Joy moves into Jack's place. There, both Jack and Joy try to make each other's lives miserable. They come to know that by proving the other partner not being fully committed in making the relationship work.

Both Joy and jack try to make things worst possible for their partner. They try to set each other up, to somehow make the other miss the counselling, which is considered the contempt of court and make things bad for them. Joy even tries to get Jack's parents involved, and give them a good impression of her so that they would become character witnesses for her. Jack tries to set her up with Mason-her exfiance. Meanwhile, Jack's parents invite both of them for their family get-together.

At office, Joy's boss asks her the reason for her inconsistence lately. She excuses about Jack. The boss asks her to bring him to the office picnic. Eventually left with no choice but to save her job, Joy brings him. At the picnic, Jack hits it off well with everyone, especially with the CFO and the board of directors. In the evening party, Jack is chosen as the most entertaining and team-spirited person in the picnic. That evening, they get to have their first dance together. Hence they slowly start bonding with each other.

Jack and Joy start to complement each other. Jack brings out the lively and fun part in Joy, and she fills the 'brumbling under the pressure' problem by motivating it. This shows its effects too. Joy becomes more confident and fun, whereas Jack becomes more motivated and focused. Eventually, they become comfortable in each other's company. Time passes.

But a day before the court hearing, Mason(her ex fiance) comes up to Joy, and asks her to be back with her. Looking at her engagement ring that Mason had given her previously, she understands that Jack must have set up this. She gets hurt.

At the court hearing, she gives up her claim for the money, and asks for a divorce. Then she shifts out of his place. Finding this, Jack becomes sad. Even after he gets all the money, he's still not happy. Joy on the other hand, becomes disappointed. She even leaves her job promotion out of her disappointment. They get divorced. Joy quit her job, goes missing and switches off her phone.

On the other hand, Jack's father convinces him to go and get her back. Jack looks for her and finds out whats been going on. He later guesses where she loves to remain alone to sooth and recuperate. He finds her there, and asks her to marry again, to which she agrees. The End. The last scene then shows how they got married in Vegas.

Final Take:

The movie is another one of those romantic comedies. Cameron and Ashton have done justice to their roles.
The soundwork in the movie has been well executed. The presence of popular tracks has made the movie more connecting with the audience.

To sum it all, its a nice movie , worth a watch or two. I'd give it 3 out of 5