What Happens in Vegas Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

When it was over I felt vaguely embarrassed. I wasn't just leaving a movie theater. I was taking a walk of shame.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

Kutcher, who gives his most energized performance to date, and Diaz, darting between the caustic and shrill, look as if they're warming up to groovy hate sex, not love, which may be why the film goes flat the moment it turns friendly.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites

Hokey and forced as it is, What Happens in Vegas eventually settles into a rhythm, maybe because Diaz and Kutcher actually look like they have fun together.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Sadly, about the nicest thing I can say about What Happens in Vegas is that I didn't hate it - although I suppose that's something.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

If you don't see where this is going, you've never seen a movie. Sorry it had to be this one.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Peter HartlaubAdd Critic to Favorites

Who wants to spend a minute on the Strip with the chance that there might be people as annoying as the characters played by Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher walking around?Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

Only Diaz shows spark because the actress knows how to simultaneously play nice and be a nasty character, thereby gaining audience sympathy. Everyone else hits one note, and it isn't nice.Read the full review

The New York Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites

Because its director, Tom Vaughan, brings nothing of interest to the movie, including filmmaking, there isn't anything to say other than to note its insulting ugliness and ineptitude.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott TobiasAdd Critic to Favorites

Complain all you want about the affable slobs in Judd Apatow comedies; at least they're not tools.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

It's a story that feels familiar at best, hackneyed at worst, which is surprising and disappointing, as director Tom Vaughan also made last year's "Starter for 10," a charming British coming-of-age comedy.Read the full review

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