Synopsis: They’ve Been Bad. Very Bad.

She was the perfect stripper for a bachelor party. There was only one problem . ..she was dead.

Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern and Leland Orser star in the savagely funny, unexpected comedy, Very Bad Things. Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that’s just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle. The four friends decide to bury the evidence, but fate has a way of not letting the truth stay buried for long – several ways in fact, all outrageous, all hilarious and full of jaw-dropping surprises.
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Very Bad Things 6.5

Hmmm… not nearly as funny as one might think, as based on the box art and text – unless one finds humour in very very dark situations, that is.

But it is a decently entertaining film. And this story of a bachelor party gone completely wrong and spiralling out of control has its moments of twisted hilarity. Plus which it has a good B-level cast of characters that make the most of a good script about a bad situation.

But it’s hard to imagine who the audience for this movie is. Since it turns a typically celebratory male tradition into a horror show, it can’t possibly have been made for men. On the other hand, the lone female character’s single-minded dreams get completely torn apart and her world caves in.

So is this movie for people who don’t believe in marriage? Or for those who are bitterly divorced and/or single? Who? Who?