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This romantic comedy film stars Cameron Diaz as a  strait-laced, Type-A commodities trader who cuts loose in Vegas after being dumped by her pill of a boyfriend. There she bumps into irresponsible, irrepressible Jack, played by Ashton Kutcher who is in Vegas because his father fired him from the family business. They drink, they marry, they win $3 mil at the slots, they wake up with hangovers, they bicker and regret and rue the day. Then they return to New York and their respective hollow lives. Before granting their annulment, a fancifully creative judge (Dennis Miller) orders these Bickersons to live together for six months, or else no money. The screenplay by Dana Fox devolves into a series of humiliating pranks. 

 Joy and Jack cohabitate uneasily, whine to their respective best pals, drive each other nuts and eventually acknowledge that what they have is real. So they end up with love and money. 

 The movie is quite formularic. Actually not a bad performance by Kutcher. It would have been better with any co-star than Cameron Diaz. I do not understand why she is a drawing card. She is unattractive and always has a “pruney” look. She reminds me of someone who has spent too much time in the sun and whose skin has turned leathery and wrinkly. She is a horrible actress and alway winds up with the parts where she is always screaming and flailing around like a “valley girl.”

Not a real cinematographic event, but watchable and provides some senseless humor.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Jalapenos