Marriage without calculation

The romantic comedy “Once in Vegas” was released in a rental week - “Once in Vegas” with Cameron Diaz and Aston Katcher is easily regarded from the point of view of her targeted family year. But the very causes and forms of the origin of a new family in the city of sin are strongly resisted by this.

You will not surprise anyone with marriage plots for every taste: this is an international source of inspiration for writers of stories of different ladies and different genre colors. The new comedy of the director of Tom Vaughn “Once in Vegas” falls more than the source, but drinks exclusively the American cola from there. Because the story machine here begins to work thanks to a typically national circumstance: in the city of sin Las Vegas, you can trigger a marriage in a couple of minutes, without long delay. Among other things, in this main gambling house of the States, God himself ordered to win fair amounts, and money in the American value system occupies the most honorable place - in the immediate vicinity of the family, the birth of which is registered by the marriage ceremony.

Finally, there is a strict and incorruptible justice that is capable of such fierce cruelty in relation to its citizens as freezing a winnings of $ 3 million for six months, during which the recent newlyweds, and the husband and wife now, should live a family life and try to glue a broken cup, for nothing that there was no vigor. In general, the national, mental and geographical affiliation of a comedy about a crazy night, during which random people with drunk eyes became spouses, and the next morning $ 3 million knocked out of a slot machine, you can’t dispute: it was invented and made in the United States. So that the viewer has no doubt left, you will get samples of funny jokes from “Once in Vegas”. The first: a lanky guy in front of the TV scratches the causal place, and then, having removed his hand from his sports pants, she has enough popcorn from the general with a lady of a wooden bucket. The second: the same guy, angry with the same young lady who in the morning took the bathroom for too long, loses patience and celebrates the need (fortunately, small) into a sink with dirty dishes. If you need a joke number three, then you can provide it, but, perhaps, the first two for preliminary acquaintance is enough. Of course, the concept of “American humor” is quite conditional: there, behind the ocean, Woody Allen also lives, and in Russia it is also not a continuous Averchenko in honor.

For what the director of Won is for, it is for the lack of complaints about anything except animal laughter. Otherwise, there would be only one request to him: "Come out of here, out." But since he is clearly clean and not spoiled by strained mental activity, there are no requests for him, but there are small advice. There are two of them again.

Eston, of course, is not the first time to portray feelings for a girl who is much older than him, and six years of difference between him and Cameron Diaz for the actor are just some kind of nonsense, there is nothing to talk about. But nevertheless, in the next comedy of this kind, it will be useful if such an actor as a catcher will get a partner outwardly more and more than the main rival of Julia Roberts in an unofficial Hollywood tournament for the title of Miss Rot.

Business is not the best virtue in the case of projects like “one day in Vegas”, otherwise it turns out to be a prestigious hypocrisy. We must go into the distance without looking back or with an eye, but not so cowardly. And if the Kutcher insidiously steals the chair, so that the poor Diaz is as inconvenient as possible to perform the procedure for which he himself adapted the sink, then it is necessary to give Diaz the opportunity to make a decent response. For this, there are, for example, dirty male socks, which are mentioned in the film, but for some reason bashfully and briefly, but in vain. It is not good to scatter such dramatic wealth. You should not talk about cowards and tampons. In general, there is still something to work on the director of Won, there is where to attach the strength and talent.

05/13/2008 / Dmitry Savelyev, the material was published in the newspaper No. 86 dated 05/13/2008.