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Funny, romantic movie.
Tom & Sarah (Ashton Kutcher & Brittany Murphy) meet, fall in love and get married, all within nine months..against the wishes of Sarah's friends and family. For their honeymoon, they decide to go to Europe. Right from the time the board the airplane, they have problems. While on the plane, they decide to become members of the 'mile high club'. Nothing goes right and they end up breaking the hostess' nose. When they arrive at their posh hotel in France, Tom forces a plug for a sex toy into the electrical outlet and destroys the wiring. This incident gets them kicked out of the hotel where they have to spend the night inside their very compact car. The real trouble begins when they separate to see different things while in Venice. Peter Prentice, Sarah's ex, is conveniently staying at the same hotel as the happy couple. He finds out that they have gone separate ways for a time and pursues her. Meanwhile, Tom heads to a bar where the Dodgers game is being broadcast and a cute yet ditzy American girl immediately wants to hook up with him. Instead of doing the gentlemanly thing by immediately telling her that he's married, he allows it to fester into a very compromising situation. Tempers flare, conflict ensues and the couple's first premonition is to call it quits. It's a hilarious, yet romantic comedy that you'll want to watch over and over.

Cute couple but the comedy does not match their chemistry
If there is any one thing that I am sure about Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher) and Sarah McNerney (Brittany Murphy) after watching their disastrous honeymoon in "Just Married," it would be that their relationship is based on great sex. I am not sure if they really love each other in a way they will help them become soul mates, but there is no sign of sexual incompatibility with these newlyweds; they have the chemistry, but not the story. Ironically, their honeymoon seems to get off on the wrong foot because they are too worn out at the end of their wedding day to have sex. The second wrong foot comes when they try to make up for this in the lavatory on their flight to Europe and Tom gets it caught in the toilet. Things go from bad to worse, to really worse, to horribly bad, and so on, gathering momentum with each and every stop the couple make in Europe.

Let me just point to too things in this 2003 comedy from directory Shawn Levy that shows why it does not work. In the aforementioned scene when Tom and Sarah are trying to join the Mile High Club, their attempts are funny instead of sexy. There is fumbling and bumbling, admits lots of laughter, and then the whole thing ends with the Nasty Stewardess (Jill Parker-Jones, and, yes, that is how the character is named in the credits) who has been banging on the door to get them to return to their seats getting her nose broken, a rather mean-spirited payoff to the scene. Then there is the uncredited Veronica Cartwright as Mrs. McNerney, who has a nickname that she insists Tom use when he becomes engaged to Sarah (I cannot put it here, even though it has five letters and not four). I waited the entire film for this nickname to have some sort of payoff beyond Tom snickering every time he uses it or hears the name, but nothing was forthcoming from Sam Harper's script, which is pretty much the problem with the rest of the comedy.

Cartwright is wasted in this script, as is David Rasche as her husband, but then everybody is pretty much relegated to a supporting role. It was great to see Christian Kane, who did some wonderful work on the television series "Angel," as Peter Prentiss, the guy Sarah's family wants her to marry, but he is also wasted in this film. There is a subplot where Peter refuses to take Sarah's "I do" for an answer and continues to pursue her, but it is pretty lame and just another "by the numbers" element of this film (which includes the happy ending).

There is a weak attempt to add some sort of class conflict to the comedy since she is the daughter of a rich family and he works for a radio station. But it has nothing to do with the story. Tom might not be stupid, despite some evidence to the contrary, but he has no trouble playing the Ugly American and he cuts a path of disaster through southern Europe. "Just Married" also tries to impart serious "lessons," in addition to the fact that you should have sex on your wedding night or horrible things will happen. The main lesson is that you should confess your sins (e.g., he sort of killed her dog) to your spouse so that you marriage is not build on lies. Having something to talk about besides sex and not insulting Europeans because they are not Americans would be better lessons, but this film is not interested in aiming anywhere near that high.

Not a Complete Dissapointment
"Just Married" isn't as bad as you might here nor is it worse.
It a comical sometimes,stupid film about two opposites attracting and getting married and then going on the most diastrous honeymoon you've ever seen in you're life.Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy have great chemistry on screen and they make a cute couple,but the film is about Tom and Sarah.Two
complete opposites,Tom is a DJ at a radio station and Sarah is a rich daddy's girl.They meet on a beach and they eventually fall in love and get married.Typical friggin story.Now to them it seems like the perfect marriage.But then something happens.The Honeymoon.Disaster and comical things end up happening but the problem is whoever wrote the movie tried a little to hard to make it funny and succeeded only and turning a great idea into a mostly stupid movie.The movie was a hit,although it carried terrible reviews from all major reviewers and it turned out to be pretty bad,but what do you expect.C- for the movie,B- for the acting.Enjoy!!!

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