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Surprisingly, I had a good time...
I recently caught this movie on cable, and was preparing for a snoozefest, but "Just Married" was actually a pleasant surprise. And I usually hate romantic comedies, very few actually entertain me. <
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>The storyline is no rocket science. Sara, daughter of a wealthy family meets Tom, a radio DJ and they hit it off. They soon get married, although it is furiously objected by Sara's posh family. The movie follows the couple's honeymoon trip, where things get really crazy and they encounter all sorts of weird scenarios, which eventually causes them to drift apart and it's not long before they wonder if marriage was too soon for them. What happens? Everyone would probably know, but that's not the point. The point is the movie gives us a really funny, enjoyable ride to that predictable conclusion. <
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>A big part of why the movie worked for me are definitely Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy. C'mon, you have to admit, they make a really cute and wacky couple. Ashton is his usual immatured self, making even the most serious situations into a big joke. Brittany Murphy is at one of her cutest here, she has a really nice smile/giggle, and delivers what is required from her character perfectly. The couple's arguments and tantrums make some of the best moments in the film, until Tom's dad says (while looking at Tom's photo album) "It's not the pictures that make a good marriage, but how you get to those moments that make it worthwhile". <
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>All in all, a pretty entertaining flick. Just accept it for what it is, and don't analyze it too much...in fact the less you think about it, the more you enjoy it. This is after all for the sake of fun, it is not vying for any award. Give it a shot, it'll make a nice "couples" movie at the very least.

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Surprising Hit
This movie was a surprise hit with me. <
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>I found it to be very very funny, and Brittany Murphy's laughter in the film is extremely infectious. <
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>Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy were such a great pair. <
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>The extras were pretty average, but the commentary was really inspiring and fun. The film gets 3 stars, but the great DVD commentary gives it major bonus points, equalling 4 stars overall. <
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>Have fun checking it out.

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painfully laugh free
I'll give the leads the benefit of the doubt that they're actually a lot better than this lame-o-flick deserves. Kutcher and Murphy are Tom and Sara, the mismatched couple that loves itself to pieces in this story which strains for laughs. After a whirlwind romance, Sara introduces Tom to her tony Beverly Hills family. They marry and the rest (much like their marriage) is quickly history. Things go bad from the wedding night (bloody noses, no sex) and only get worse. After Tom nearly burns down the French Chalet that Sara booked them into (after a fatal misunderstanding involving voltage differences in Europe and an electric sex-toy), and compounds problems by taking them to the worst hotel in Venice (cockroaches, dust and no sex), our heroes quickly realize that they are on the Honeymoon-from-hell. At first they gamely make a go of it, not realizing that they're only saving their tension for the perfect moment. <
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>"Just Married" was a simple idea for a flick. People have been laughing at marriage for years. Maybe that's why the jokes seem forced - the sex-toy fiasco painfully illustrates how far the script will go to get a laugh, and we get that one early on. Every joke is actually half of a joke about Sara and Tom can't have sex, climaxing (really, no pun intended - I mean it!) when Sara tricks custom's inspectors into giving her hated hubby a full-rectal exam (cut to the scene of Tom walking bow-legged onto the plane; obviously he's the victim, but in the perverse logic of this unsexual non-comedy, you've got to wonder whether Tom is actually the victor - he at least got some.) The script can't get past a monumental plot gap: Tom and Sara really don't have anything in common - you'd think they'd have learnt and gotten past their foibles while they dated, but the story skips past much of that. Tom's the hero, but he's an idiot - the script makes him out as the ugly American, an utterly dated cliche (he's surprised that nobody in Europe watches American baseball; he's the kind of idiot who uses "American" instead of "English" when referring to language - as in "Why isn't there a sign in American warning against using US voltage sex-toys in France?" The laughs are far and few in between - the best ones involve cars (both the ridiculous sub-compact they rent in France, and the Dodge Barracuda (at least I think it's a `Cuda) that Tom drives - a monster which was probably meant to remind us about "That 70's show" but which looks like a prop from the "Phantasm" movies. If ever there was a flick that needed help from "The Tall Man", this is it.