Just Married

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with Tom and Sarah in the airport. A few months earlier, Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher) and Sarah McNerney (Brittany Murphy) meet up when Tom accidentally hits Sarah with a football. A few months later, despite opposition from Sarah's rich, uptight family, they get married. However they each have a secret: Tom doesn't want Sarah to know that he accidentally killed her dog, and Sarah doesn't want Tom to know she slept with Peter Prentiss (Christian Kane). Tom and Sarah decide to honeymoon at a classy hotel at the foot of the Alps. On their way there, they attempt to join the Mile High Club, but fail when the captain turns on the Fasten Seatbelt sign and they are forced to return to their seats.They arrive at the hotel and discover that Tom's friend Kyle left them a present: the Thunderstick A-2000, a sex toy. Tom tries to plug the toy into the socket, but the plug isn't built for a European outlet and he shuts down the entire village's electricity when he tries to force it in. The newlyweds leave the hotel after Tom has a heated argument with the hotel owner. While trying to find another hotel, they crash and get buried under a heap of snow, but they are able to climb out in the morning. Eventually, they get a ride from a truck driver and end up staying at a pensión in Venice. The pensión turns out to be very bad, and they soon check out after Tom discovers a cockroach on his neck while the couple are attempting to make love.They manage to secure a nice hotel with the financial help of Sarah's father, who demands that Tom pay the money back as soon as he can. The next day they go sightseeing in Venice, but Tom quickly gets bored and they decide to split up for the day: Tom going to the bar to watch sports and Sarah continuing to see Venice. Sarah realizes that Peter Prentiss is staying at her hotel. This prompts her to initiate a conversation with Tom in which he reveals that he accidentally killed her dog and she reveals she slept with Peter. The couple storm out of the hotel and each go their separate ways: Tom going to the bar, where he meets a girl, and Sarah going sightseeing again, where she meets Peter.The girl begins to flirt with Tom and the two end up dancing. When Tom realizes she wants to have sex with him, he makes an excuse and escapes through the bathroom window. He goes back to the hotel, only to find out that Sarah is with Peter. This prompts him to go back to the bar, where he meets the girl again, and the girl clearly wants to have sex with him. Tom tries to think of a clever way to get out of this and agrees to walk with the girl to her hotel, except the girl tricks Tom into revealing his hotel, and in a desperate attempt to go to bed with him, falsely says she's at the same hotel. She tricks Tom again at the hotel and says she's lost her key and needs to call the front desk, Tom all the while trying to avoid this situation. Once in Tom and Sarah's room, the girl rips off her top and bra and tries to have sex with Tom, while Tom does everything possible to get away. As she is mounting him and trying to make out with him, Tom blurts out that he's married, and the girl finally leaves.Peter convinces Sarah to go with him for a drink, promising her a ride home. He eventually takes her home and kisses her, but she slaps him and tells him that she's on her honeymoon. Tom sees the kiss but does not see her slap him and assumes that Sarah is having a relationship with Peter. This prompts him to initiate an argument with Sarah, during which she finds a bra that the girl who Tom was with left behind. Sarah throws an ashtray at Tom, hitting him in the head and enraging him. Peter bursts into the room and tells Sarah to run away with him to Seattle. Tom arms himself with a fire poker and starts shouting at Peter, breaking things in the process. Peter runs away, asking the maître d' to call the police. Tom chases Peter out of the hotel where Tom gets arrested, and he and Sarah end up in a prison cell. Peter bails them out and this time the couple, angry at each other, decide to go home to Los Angeles.The film switches to the present, where Sarah has moved out and Tom wants to get back together with her. Upon receiving advice from his father (Raymond J. Barry), Tom attempts to break into Sarah's family's household to tell her that he loves her, but gives up after unsuccessfully trying to ram the gate with a car after unsuccessfully trying to convince her family to open it. However Sarah opens the gate herself after seeing Tom make a romantic speech to the camera, and the two rush out to proclaim their love for each other. Sarah's family also finally accepts Tom, with her father telling her to go to him after she opens the gate. The film ends with the couple recounting events from the honeymoon and Sarah's family finally approving of their marriage and people from town knowing everything about it. There is also the chance for some interviews after the marriage has been confirmed by the priest who married Tom and Sarah.

Tags: entertaining, flashback

Review:
It was pretty predictable, but I am a fan of corny romantic comedies, and if you are, you will want to see this movie.
Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher were great together, they made a really good pair.
I'm not a huge Ashton fan, but I do think he is funny, and this was probably the best movie I've seen out of the ones I've seen him in.
Does What It Says on the Tin. Newlyweds Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher embark on the honeymoon from hell.
It has to be said that both look terrific, and Kutcher in particular has developed a very nice style in physical comedy.The problem with all these kind of movies, for me, is that they tend to drag a bit as they reach the 1hour mark, and then you're sort of waiting for it to end.
It stars Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy, both of whom can't really act and are only in films now because of their social/celebrity status.Nevertheless I was surprised because despite some really hideous reviews and bad promos, the movie isn't awful.
The first fifteen minutes alone have: - Last regrets before the wedding (e.g. bride feels bad about keeping secrets from future husband, etc.) - Groom picks up bride to be romantic, ends up slapping her head against the door frame (also see...any other movie about newly married couples) - They try to have sex on an airplane, get limb(s) stuck in the toilet (also see "Vegas Vacation," which was a scene recycled from other films to begin with) - Mean airline stewardesses (also see "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Meet the Parents" and "Midnight Run" and...) - Mix-up at the rental agency in terms of car/transportation, they end up with a lesser car (ripped right off of the aforementioned "P,T&A") - Get stuck in snow ("PT&A" again!) And so on and so forth...Some of the gags are too crude and shouldn't be included - the pathetic joke about the vibrator as a honeymoon present is unnecessary.
It's kind of like "Meet the Parents" - events continually spiralling out of control, bad luck for good people - but not as funny or well-developed.
When Jerry asks her why she would want to do that, she just looks down and says: Well, I just love him Jerry...WHY she actually loves her husband is unclear, just as it's unclear why newlyweds poor guy Tom (Ashton Kutcher) and rich girl Sarah (Brittany Murphy) team up.
what fun is there to be married to this illiterate guy?Things only get worse once they go to Venice, with Sarah meeting an old boyfriend of hers and Tom almost sleeping with a girl he picked up at a bar (he goes to all the time because they show American baseballmatches...
YUCK!!!Film not only lacking a good story, a good ending, good actors, good directing, but also some laughs (why would you call this one a comedy?) as it sure is one of the worst movies I have ever witnessed.
Just Married is an average comedy and something you would expect from Ashton Kutcher.
Films like Just Married can sometimes be really funny while other times, they can be bad.
The movie isn't funny, sexy, or even interesting.But my hat is off to the young actors for doing their best with very little to work with..
Tom (Ashton Kutcher) a traffic reporter with a white collar up bringing and Sarah (Brittany Murphy) a writer whose family is wealthy and snobbish, fall in love and marry; much to the despair of her parents and her ex-boyfriend.
After their wedding they set off on what should be their honeymoon, but it's more the trip from hell.Kutcher and Murphy do have a strong screen chemistry, and this movie does have a decent script with some funny moments, it just doesn't do anything new, which leaves it feeling just a little too familiar, to be considered a really good film.It's well made, funny and entertaining; it's just not special.6/10.
personally, i thought the movie was great and maybe it is because i am young but i think it targeted an audience my age and not so much people who are already married or married with children and have been through the newlywed process.
ashton and brittany work very well together and have worked in previous films and shows before so i thought the chemistry was great- of course chemistry isn't what makes up a movie but i think the point of the movie was displayed great and its one of my favorite movies.
Kutcher and Murphy do seem to have a bit of chemistry, and they do show sporadic flashes of real acting ability, but in all, this movie doesn't really go anywhere.
Hollywood shows the flavor of the months in this awful film starring two semi-talented "actors" who attempt to play off each other in the sloppy script and terrible comedy.This has all the comedy cliches; hijinks in an airplane bathroom, the cliche snooty french people, the stuffy rich family who hates the fiance for no particular reason other than he's poor, and the same stereotypes you'd expect to see in France.Watch Ashton Kutcher do the same ridiculous yelling he tries to pull off as comedic with obvious lines like "Pussy has never hated me.
She's rich but she dresses like a rather average girl, and giggles a lot.I mean it; she giggles, and laughs, and chuckles and scoff like an airhead expecting the audience to find it simply adorable but it's just annoying, and I ain't buying it.The two have zero chemistry and if that's not enough the movie doesn't put up much of an argument to get us to like these people; they're just rather annoying blips on the screen.The dialogue is awful, the situations ridiculous, the acting is horrible with Kutcher doing his usual screaming at the top of his lungs to draw laughter, a quickly tiresome shtick along with Murphy who is way over the top with her performance in an attempt to channel Lucille Ball but comes off more as shrill.The script never puts up an argument as to why they should be together, nor does it give us much of a plot except tiny little physical bits of comedy that fail on every level and measure with a usual obligatory happy ending that's so tacked on you're left wondering why you wasted so much time on these people in the first place.Ashton may never be able to recover and his screaming thing for comedy will get old, but Murphy I hold hope for.
Chinese people talk funny!) -- but, sadly, they're more amusing than the lead parts.Ashton Kutcher's Tom is an uncultured dimbulb -- but he makes up for that by being petulant, whiny, selfish, and short-tempered.
'Just Married' is pretty much just another goofy Ashton Kutcher film.
Ashton Kutcher is the same goofy guy he played in x films and Brittany Murphy is plug-your-ears irritating.
"Just Married"¨ is the story of the romance between Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher) and Sarah McNerney (Brittany Murphy).
Harper's contrasting characters are brought to life by the outlandish slapstick of Ashton Kutcher and the sweetness of Brittany Murphy.
Audiences will be able to sympathize with Murphy when she experiences heartache and fall in love with her when she readily forgives her husbands behavior."Just Married" is a wonderfully surprising romantic comedy.
Despite the films silliness, it does deliver a final message of love and devotion that makes the movie appeal to the male and female audience.
And I did like some of the songs in the film.FINAL VERDICT:  If you are a big fan of Ashton or Brittany, then you will probably want to see this.
It never looked like a movie that I'd want to spend any energy or money getting to watch, so I never did.
Some movies have characters who act stupid but have some redeeming quality in the plot or the overall comedy or in great actors or actresses.
Sometimes movies like Just Married, or Dude, Where's My Car can be quite fun to watch.
Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy are great actors.
The fall in love for each other, get married and travel to Europe for their honeymoon, where many incidents happen, mainly because of the insecurity and lack of knowledge of other cultures of Tom. The end of this comedy is very predictable, but works very well.
It tries to be very PC in its attitude to sex  lots of talk, the presence of sex aids, the newly-wed wife who has been a player but is still (supposedly) sweet and charming  but these efforts just add to the tedium and the unappealing nature of the two lead characters.The story plods along, Ashton Kutcher (the male lead) is irritating and Brittany Murphy is short.
Short of comedic talent and physically short; the disparity in the heights of the two leads is yet another distraction from the "action".By their nature, romantic comedies are predictable when it comes to the overall plot; boy meets girl, they have difficulties getting together, but all is well at the end.
They stop the movie from being a total waste of time, but are not nearly enough to recommend it.Sum-up  Don't watch this film unless you are desperate.Rating  2/10.
The jokes were so bad that it was painful watching them (I don't understand how anyone can find Ashton Kutcher getting hit in the head by an ash tray funny) and the plot was just tedious.
I also have to admit than Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy did have good chemistry together but I think that was purely because they were dating at the time this film was made.I'd rather sit through double geography than see this film again.
in the movie, she and ashton are from two different social backgrounds and fall crazily in love and then just get married.
Just Married is the kind of cute film that you would watch during a sleepover with the girls, or when you find yourself crushing on Ashton or Brittany.
In a story told in flashback, poor jock Ashton Kutcher (as Tom Leezak) and rich blonde Brittany Murphy (as Sarah McNerney) meet on the beach and live together for several months.
The story is good being a flashback, but the ending was obvious and a little unrealistic, but I would watch this movie again, I found it funnier than Clueless and I am a brit murphy fan, overall I gave it a 7..
In this cute comedy Tom (Kutcher)and Sarah (Murphy) rush into a marriage, only to experience the honeymoon from hell.
Why would anyone keep sinking money into something that they know is falling apart?Kutcher and Murphy give a good effort in this film, and it really lightens up the moment when Murphy starts to laugh when something goes wrong, but the honeymoon from hell is just totally unbelievable!.
The film chronicles the honeymoon of a perfectly matched American couple, Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher) and Sarah McNerney (Brittany Murphy), who head to Europe on honeymoon, where things take more than a turn for the worse.
As the distracted Leezak goes back to work, at his regional radio station, he begins reminiscing about all the good times the couple had before they were married and the disaster of the honeymoon.
Just married (2003) starring Ashton kutcher and Brittany Murphy gets very tiresome and the same old recycled jokes and boring gags are way overused.
Loved the actors, they did a good job, very well portraying their characters and made many moments that weren't all that funny worth laughing.
I think the movie started getting funny only after the marriage and it took a while until then.
Other than that not a bad light movie, nothing special but I had a good time watching it..
Tom (Ashton Kutcher) and Sarah (Brittany Murphy) are newlyweds.
However, don't be shocked, the scenario calls, many times, on the "lie" trick to push the story from one drama to an other.Ashton Kutcher wears his over the top comedy style of That's 70s Show, but Brittany Murphy seems to want to stay away from her hysterical persona that are part of many of her romantic films.
I recognized the two stars, Ashton Kutcher and the late Brittany Murphy, but hadn't seen either of them in many other films.
I finally saw that movie for the first time last year and thought it was pretty good.
Before I saw "Just Married", I knew it wasn't really a well liked comedy, so my expectations were low.
I knew that even if it wasn't that good, I still could possibly get some laughs out of it, which I did, but very unsurprisingly, I didn't get too many.Tom Leezak is a young average Joe who meets a rich young woman named Sarah McNerney one day at the beach when he accidentally hits her on the head with his football.
There were also parts where I couldn't help but grin, plus they chose some nice European filming locations for the honeymoon, the plot certainly isn't the dullest I've even seen, and Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher put on decent comedic performances and have good chemistry.
After all that happens in the story, the predictable and clichéd ending is also a disappointment.It seems a lot of people like this movie, and many hate it, but I'm somewhere in between.
It has too much merit for me to rate it below five, with its occasional funny moments, impressive performances from the co-stars who play interesting characters, good filming locations, and not an entirely boring plot, but I don't think all this is enough for me to rate "Just Married" higher than five, either.
They seemed to have gotten carried away saying "Look we got this movie with two young actors, we could make them have....oh yeah....it's PG-13." Ashton Kutcher is Tom, a typical adult acting like an adolescent.
But the amount of gusto Brittany Murphy put into her performance (probably knowing in her heart that the script was pretty ropey) made this film fun to watch.Meet The Parents and Meet The Fockers each have twice as many quality jokes in the same running time as Just Married, while covering a lot of similar themes (the litany of accidents and catastrophes that happen to the happy couple, the below-par guy who has to impress the snooty parents of the bride, the clingy ex who gets on great with her dad etc).
I think that's the case here - as Brittany and Ashton were a real-life couple, the chemistry between them is more authentic than any scripted contrivances, and I think that shines through and makes the film feel good.So what we have here is a technically mediocre at best movie, but still an entertaining one, if you're dragged along to see it by your better half.
No matter what people think of Just Married, it's a great way to remember her as a funny, lively, very attractive young actress who virtually saved this movie.
Just Married is a pleasant and amusing comedy which relies mainly on Brittany Murphy's looks and Ashton Kutcher's goofy persona to make it work.
This is another one of those "disaster honeymoon" movies, but is very good and funny.
Very funny movie, good for dates, or just watching.
Although you know the ending from the start, this movie has its funny moments (although some are very predictable).
After 15 minutes i wanted to turn it off, but i gave it a chance because im very open minded about all kinds of movies, but this one just blew, even eye candy Ashton Kutcher (whom i love as Kelso on that 70's show) couldnt save it, and Britanny Murphy is just painful to watch.
First Dude Where's My Brain and now this!Yes, he's funny in That 70's Show because he's probably not aloud to improvise his own dialogue on that show.But everytime he makes a big screen movie it ends up being the type of movie where you leave your brain at the door and after watching his movie, you forget to pick it up again on your way out!I thought this movie had the chance of at least being a cute romantic flick, but everything about this movie was awful.
The basic premise is a young couple gets married (against her family wishes) and a truly awful European honeymoon ensues.I caught this movie yesterday afternoon.
Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher make you laugh in "Just Married"...
It's very disappointing to see a once-promising and talented actress like Brittany Murphy turning in such a poor, irritating performance in such a poor, irritating movie.
Brittany Murphy and Aston Kutcher had real chemistry in this movie.
It was a great movie that keeps you laughing right up to the end.
I absolutely love Ashton Kutcher, wish I was getting married to him.
If you are not looking for a great script, acting or anything else worthwhile but would be satisfied with a cute couple date flick, Just Married is the movie for you.
Now, I like some pretty dumb movies, but I checked my watch a few times wondering when it was going to end, so that's gotta tell you something.
All in all, it is a very good film: well acted, good comedic timing, and great chemistry between Kutcher and Murphy.
I crack up every time I think about how funny Ashton Kutcher and Brittney Murphy were together.
Just married is the funniest movie I've seen in a really long time, and I think it is the funniest..
I find that if at least 3 out of 10 people found the movie worth watching, I should give it a chance...and I did.First of all, I came to the theater not expecting much and that was a good thing because it turned out to be an enjoyable film.
Ashton Kutcher is good in a role that isn't a total doofus like the other movies/tv shows we've seen him in.