Just Married: Critic Reviews

Collapses into the most generic sort of teen movie-ville, just at the moment it's convinced you that its lightly appealing stars are capable of better.

The director, Shawn Levy, and the screenwriter, Sam Harper, hardly overtax themselves, contriving to make these young lovers bump into as many walls and doors as possible to wring laughs from a feeble premise.

This film ... thinks it's being cute when in fact it's being exceedingly irritating.

A veritable orgy of strained physical gags, inane vulgarity and poor comic timing.

Yes, it's as bad as it looks.

The film's insistence that these two kids belong together for eternity should persuade only the credulous and unmarried. (I give them six months, personally.)

Hackneyed star-brite Brittany Murphy-Ashton Kutcher rom-com.

For a teen-geared trifle, this is feel-good fun with its heart in the right place.

A little too lacking in sophistication to really stand out.

Ditches the expected route and comes out surprisingly original and endearing.

An ungainly and witless comedy.

I laughed exactly once during the whole film.

Even when this sitcom about honeymooners in hell was recycling lame jokes from National Lampoon's European Vacation, Kutcher retained a doofus dignity that made me laugh.

Rubbery-faced Kutcher is a nice match for Murphy, and their chemistry keeps the movie afloat even when the gags stretch thin.

The filmmakers themselves betray a lack of knowledge about the Old World, while unfailingly repeating physical hijinks one time too many.

Sitcomish, stereotypical and sporadically funny.

The gags fall into four categories: (a) stale, (b) dumb, (c) vaguely tasteless or (d) all of the above.

Brittany Murphy and Ashton (Dude, Where's My Car?) Kutcher plunge themselves into this potentially sludgy material ... with such game energy and velocity, they actually whip it into something frothy and fun.

In the end, a few genuinely funny moments aside, the script is simply too predictable and unvarying to earn the viewer's loyalty.

It takes a number of awkward running steps at the beginning and then founders irrevocably midway through.

Just uninspired and mostly unfunny.

Director Shawn Levy clearly wants to target teens and young adults, but the demographic engineering feels forced, turning potentially funny situations into lame physical bits.