• Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Release Date: 05/03/2008
  • Running Time: 99 mins
  • Director: Tom Vaughan
  • Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Queen Latifah, Lake Bell, Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Krusiec, Krysten Ritter, Maddie Corman, Rob Corddry, Jason Sudeikis
  • Producer: Dean Georgaris, Michael Aguilar
  • Writer: Dana Fox
  • Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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Box Office

  1. WALL-E, 63.1 million, 63.1 million
  2. Wanted, 50.9 million, 50.9 million
  3. Get Smart, 20.2 million, 77.5 million
  4. Kung Fu Panda, 11.7 million, 179.3 million
  5. The Incredible Hulk, 9.6 million, 115.9 million
  6. The Love Guru, 5.3 million, 25.2 million
  7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 5.2 million, 300.1 million
  8. The Happening, 3.9 million, 59.1 million
  9. Sex and the City, 3.8 million, 140.2 million
  10. You Don't Mess With the Zohan, 3.2 million, 91.2 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

What Happens in Vegas

Every now and then, a movie comes along that looks so spectacularly, cosmically bad that you fear for the sanity of its producers. What Happens in Vegas? Nothing surprising: It’s a clunker of a title, and the film’s premise—career woman Cameron Diaz and laid-back, laid-off Ashton Kutcher meet cute in Las Vegas, drink themselves silly, get married, and promptly win $3 million from a slot machine—strains credulity, to say the least. During a custody battle over the money, an activist judge played by Dennis Miller sentences the two to “six months’ hard marriage,” which somehow entails Diaz moving her smoothie machine into Kutcher’s apartment while the two endure weekly marital-therapy sessions with Queen Latifah. There’s not much here that makes sense—why is Kutcher’s unemployed carpenter living in a sweet DUMBO apartment, while Diaz’s hard-driving Wall Street type is homeless?—but the stars, despite having only a fraction of the charm and talent of the classic sparring-but-really-meant-for-each-other duos, know how to mug for the camera and well up on cue, and somehow that turns out to be enough to carry this trifle. Charming Brooklyn location shots help things along, as does Rob Corddry, who, as Kutcher’s best-friend-cum-lawyer, is crafty enough to cancel out his buddy’s guileless, cowlike brown eyes. — Julia Wallace

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