Just Married (2003)

'Just Married' is just lazy, there is really no better descriptive word for this movie. Benefiting from a January release and two then rising stars, Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy, this sadly financially successful movie is the story of a poor man and a rich girl who meet lazy, marry against the advice of seemingly everybody, and then have the honeymoon from hell in Europe. Will this cause the couple to break up? Would that it did because that at least would have been creative, as opposed to every other obvious scene and trite convention this movie tries, lazily, to exploit. Murphy is above the material, Kutcher is not, young Tom Hanks from 'Big' David Moscow is in this too, as is Christian Kane from 'Leverage' and David Rasche from 'Sledge Hammer'. This mediocrity paved the way for better things from director Shawn Levy ('The Night at the Museum' franchise) and some probably not better things (2006's 'The Pink Panther', 'The Internship'). Bad, with occasional nice European scenery. *1/2