Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
Two deeply unlikeable characters, played by Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, unwittingly get married in Las Vegas and then have to stay together for legal and financial reasons.
There are moments where this film is just straight up sexist and homophobic in its humour, and I get that it did not come out in the socially charged times of the current year, but did anyone ever think this was okay? Every time the film makes one of these jokes I either cringe or think what was the point? Do they just have to use slurs and stereotypes to try and be funny because they have nothing else?
In terms of laughs, yeah this film doesn’t have any. I chuckled a few times but it was not deliberate on the part of the film.
In terms of plot this film is incredibly generic and predictable, you know where this is going right from the start and rather than try and surprise you it just goes there. Every cliché and trope of the genre is trotted out here in a vein effort to drown you in a sea of mediocrity.
Neither Diaz nor Kutcher are likeable here and both come off as varying degrees of annoying, self-involved and obnoxious.
Overall, this really is the bottom of the barrel for the rom-com genre.
Pros.
It is watchable
Cons.
Diaz and Kutcher are both annoying
It is vapid and generic
It is toxic
The relationship doesn’t feel believable
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