Testing
the limits of how moronic a teenage comedy could get, Just Married is
another mind-numbing showcase for two young stars to act like buffoons. It just
so happen that one of the stars, Brittany Murphy, is one of young Hollywood’s
most talented actresses. And after seeing her in such films as 8 Mile and
Don’t Say A Word, it boggles my mind why an actress of her caliber
partakes in such a degrading flick. In the first two-minutes alone, her co-star,
the comically talented Ashton Kutcher, intentionally spills hot coffee on her
shirt and, seconds later, hurls a luggage cart at her knees. Murphy and Kutcher
are playing bickering newlyweds, but the audience is unaware of this while the
violent slapstick plays during the opening credits.
Just
Married fits
in perfect with other senseless movies like Say It Isn’t So, which is
why it is being released as part of the January dumping grounds. While there
usually is a worthwhile movie released during the first month of each year,
2001’s The Pledge comes to mind, January is mostly a month for studios
to dump films they believe to be first-class stinkers. Just Married is no
exception.
Tying
the knot at such a young age are late-night radio traffic reporter Tom Leezak (Kutcher)
and free spirited rich girl Sarah McNerney (Murphy). The newlyweds decide to
spend their honeymoon in Italy, but as any experienced moviegoer can guess,
everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Reservations are lost, the locales
are rude, and cars crash into blocks of snow. How unexpected.
GRADE: C
-Copyright 2003 by
Shaun
Sages