Just Married

Ashton Kushner and Brittany Murphy. Shawn Levy, dir. 2003, 20th Century Fox.

My wife and I caught this movie in sporadic moments while vacuuming the floor on a Saturday afternoon.

Actually I didn't expect much from it, but we were pleasantly surprised. Not much to say, except that it's a cute film, light on plot, but for the romantics in all of us it's worth a Saturday afternoon on TV.

Some of the best moments are Kushner's dialogue with the Italian desk clerk - some good lines there, augmented with the trivia that the Italian actor learned his line phonetically. Not half bad. Kushner also has a good bit of dialogue with his wife's ex-boyfriend while defending her with a fireplace poker.

Other than that, fairly tame stuff. I thought the ex-boyfriend character getting in the way was a bit of a detraction, and something really didn't seem to sit right with that entire part of the plot. Movie could have been re-written to focus solely on how a young couple LEARNS about each other through their first trial. Perhaps it can be redone as such.

Perhaps. But still cute.

Saturday afternoon light fare, lemme tellya!

VG