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The ever after story
HONEYMOON FROM HELL: Tom (Ashton Kutcher) confronts Sarah (Brittany Murphy) while ex-boyfriend Peter (Christian Kane)looks on.
Just Married (ENGLISH)
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy
Dir: Shawn Levy
RICH GIRL plus poor boy divided by romantic vacation in Venice is equal to honeymoon from hell. Based on screenwriter Sam Harper's own ill-fated honeymoon in Italy, Just Married is the perfect date movie peppered with enough laughs, easy on the eye leads and more than easy on the eye locations (Venice and the Italian Alps look dreamy).
When Tom Leezak, a struggling radio sports announcer in Los Angeles knocks Sarah McNerney on the head with a football on the beach, it is love at first sight. The two move in together and nine months later decide to get married much to the dismay of Sarah's super rich and powerful family.
While family and friends are doubtful of the marriage's success, Sarah and Tom are convinced that their love will see them through. Armed with this knowledge, the two set off to Europe for honeymoon.
Things naturally come unstuck starting with language problems to updated sport sections, difference in electrical accessories to ex-boyfriends and choosing between a broadcast on ESPN and church architecture.
Ashton Kutcher, who we last saw in the goofy Dude, Where's My Car, is Tom while Brittany Murphy who has acted in high voltage thrillers including Don't Say A Word plays cute as a button Sarah.
The humour is of the simple kind but thankfully not scatological. The film with its many masala movie clichés (girl's rich and stuck up family, proud boy who will not take money from girl's family, nasty ex-boyfriend, young love that conquers all and wise understanding elders among others) make Just Married feel like a comic version of Mani Ratnam's Sakhi.
Directed by Shawn Levy (who made his debut with the hit Big Fat Liar) Just Married is fun in a happy harmless way and just what the doctor ordered in these days of shock and awe, scorching heat, water shortage, assorted trucker strikes and SARS scares.
MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER
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