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Had Potential, But Ended Up Pretty Blah
I was intrigued by Just Married based on one scene I saw in the trailer, where Ashton Kucher's character tries to plug an interesting US electrical device into a European outlet, causing much chaos to the hotel where he and his new bride (played by Brittany Murphy) were staying. I was intrigued because I did the exact same thing once when I went to Europe, taking out the electricity in my hotel room and incurring the wrath of the hotel staff. So the movie is authentic in that detail.

But otherwise, Just Married is just a drab, mostly unfunny comedy. I don't get Kucher's appeal as he isn't particularly funny and he's a mediocre actor at best. Brittany Murphy has some charm and most of the funny lines, but I have a feeling she must smoke a couple of packs of cigarettes a day as her voice is so raspy that it cuts in and out sometimes. She's got talent, but I think she may be better suited for dramatic work than comedy.

It's been a while since I watched a movie and been totally indifferent about it afterward, but that's about the best I can say about this movie.

Cute Couple
Ashton Kutcher(all time hottie) and Brittany Murphy are wonderful in this movie. They play a cute couple who go on a honeymoon which turns hillarious funny. Everything that can go wrong does. They deciede they want a divorce afterwards but that idea changes when Tom (Kutcher) sweet talks here on accident. The movie was so good. I don't want to tell you all that happens but beleive me you have to see it.

Just OK Romantic Comedy
"Just Married" is not as bad as critics may say. Wide-eyed Brittany Murphy is surpisingly lovely (after her turns in "8 Mile" and "Girl, Interrupted"), and puppy-eyed Ashton Kutcher is also handsome and likable. It's just too ordinary, and too predictable, that's all.

Sarah, young girl from rich family, and Tom, not-so-rich traffic radio announcer fall in love with each other, and they go to Europe on honeymoon. Wrong choice, it turns out, for everything there seems to interrupt the good time tey try to spend, and even Sarah's old boyfriedn shows up, possibly to break the relations between the newlyweds.

The film's opening airport scene shows how their honeymoon ended; that's uncomfortable, because we know what is going to happen (temporarily or not). And what happens is not particularly interesting. In France, you meet a snobbish French hotel manager; in Italy (and postcard Italy) Tom wants to see baseball on TV while Sarah wants him to go to museum. In Switzerland their car gets stuck among the snow, and so on.

The two leads are always likable, but they also look like puppets manipulated by the script, which needs desperately something to amuse the audiences. You can see the director pulling strings behind them when you see the couple ruin the hotel room (and its electricity system too) for no other reason than having a bit of fun, but we know that no one would act like that. Or see how Tom gets invloved in troubles (or another girl played by Valeria) in Venice in a purely slapstick manner. Remember you are in love with cute Brittany Murphy, and you would never act like that, which might invite some misunderstanding on the side of your lovely wife Brittany.

"Just Married" shows that the leading stars can do romantic comedy pretty well, and for the fans of Brittany Murphy it will be a good occasion to remember that she was once in another delightful comedy "Clueless." But the film's ruthlessly eager attitude to be funny is nothing that makes us laugh, lacking natural charma and more articulate characters,

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