`Vegas' misses the jackpot

Movie Review

What Happens in Vegas

*

Directed by: Tom Vaughan

Written by: Dana Fox

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Lake Bell, and Rob Corddry

At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs

Running time: 99 minutes

Rated: PG-13 (some sexual and crude content, a drug reference,

and profanity)

A little insobriety never hurt a romantic comedy. In its whooshing prime, the genre used to feature big cocktail parties where the stars flirted, caroused, and cavorted.

Now the leads go to bars and are desperate to hold their liquor. It's last-call romantic comedy. No one is sober enough to be clever, or self-possessed enough to be sexy. The hookup is the gateway to love. And that's possible only after the ...

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