JUST MARRIED (2003)
Reviewed by Jerry Saravia
Harmless, inoffensive and dumb. Those are three words to describe "Just Married." Also, a major inactive pain to the funny bone in the sense that your funny bone will not be jerked by the maddeningly unfunny movie that transpires. No pain, no gain.
Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy are a young, likable couple who decide to get married. She is rich, he is not (he loves sports and just has to watch them at a bar in Venice, Italy). They are on their honeymoon and get into one scrape after another with each other's attitudes. Their rental car breaks down and they are snowbound for a whole night. The hotel management is not very accommodating. There's an old flame, a hot blonde that tries the moves on Ashton; a poor dog that jumps out the window; unwanted cockroaches; heavy sex in a bathroom in an airplane, and I think you get the point.
We all know that despite the incessant fighting between Kutcher and Murphy, things will work out and they'll recognize that they are in love. Like I said, this movie is harmless, inoffensive, dumb and highly unnecessary with a couple of chuckles along the way (to be absolutely fair). There are, however, too many of these disposable wastes of cliched romantic comedies out there. My advice: make out with your girlfriend instead and throw this movie to the dogs.
