Good premise ruined by horrible, over the top acting ,and over- reacting that was intended to hide the horribly weak plot development ..This movie is a great material for a MadTV skit ..This is not a black comedy, this is a black blotch on the book of black comedy.Sometimes when I watch a movie like this, I wonder what were the director or script-writer thinking.It looked like they forget about real life and it was highly possible that someone would ask about the whereabouts of the deceased stripper.What about the hotel security guy, how absurd it is to assume that you can let him inside your room and then kill him and bury him and move on with your life as if nothing has happened because you made sure to cover your tracks by going to supermarket and pick up some cleaning detergents and walk down the aisle with disco music playing in the background ..the movie makers assumed that the weak plot can be drowned under the the screaming, the sound effects and absurd violent behaviour and they were rightly so given the reviews posted here.People, dark comedy must be intelligent , subtle and oh do I need to mention,funny?

A couple of days before his wedding with Laura Garrety (Cameron Diaz), Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) travels to Las Vegas for a bachelor party with his friends Charles Moore (Leland Orser), Robert Boyd (Christian Slater), Michael Berkow (Jeremy Piven) and his brother Adam Berkow (Daniel Stern) in his minivan. They go to an apartment in the hotel and get crazy drinking booze and using cocaine. When the stripper Tina (Carla Scott, a.k.a. Kobe Tai) comes to their room, she teases the friends and Michael goes with her to the bathroom to have sex. The prostitute hits the hanger for towel with her nape and she dies. The group panics, but Boyd convinces his friends to bury the woman in the desert. However one security guard comes to the room because of the noise and he glances at the dead body. He wants to call the police and Boyd stabs him to death. Then they clean the room and bury the bodies in the desert. They return home and Adam freaks out with the situation, causing an accident with his wife Lois Berkow (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and children. Meanwhile Laura organizes the wedding party and during the rehearsal, Michael and Adam have a serious argument and Michael decides to hit the minivan of his brother. Adam tries to protect his minivan and is accidentally murdered by his brother. Soon Lois finds a note written by Adam and presses the group to know what happened in Vegas. What will happen to them?"Very Bad Things" is one of the darkest comedies ever. The storyline of a group of friends that accidentally kills a woman is not original and has been used many times (for example, the 1997 low-budget "Stag"). However, "Very Bad Things" by Peter Berg has improved the story and is little gem of black humor. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Uma Loucura de Casamento" ("A Crazzy Wedding")

This is a very black and disturbing film, but I loved it. I have a bit of a sadistic streak when it comes to movies because I really like films that are more realistic in the execution and their endings. In regards to the familiar plot of boy meets girl, boy looses girl, boy gets girl back again, I have hardly seen it, and when I have, the relationship has not lasted. Then there is the girl that hates the guy and finally falls for him at the end, and though I have seen that happen, it has never happened to me.Five guys go on a trip to Las Vegas for a bachelor party and during the events where they take almost every drug available, one of them accidentally kills the prostitute while having sex with her in the bathroom. This is when the problems happen because they all freak out, except for one who says that the best thing to do is to take her out into the desert and bury her because they cannot get the police involved. Unfortunately things go from bad to worse when a security guard walks in and finds the body, and they deal with it by killing him as well. This guy (Christian Slater) quickly takes control of the situation, and very quickly the other four find that things have gone out of their control. Through Slater's act of killing the guard, they are all implicated.Things have worked out very well though as they successfully hid the corpses in the desert and all returned to Los Angeles none the worse. Unfortunately guilt begins to gnaw away at one of the men and he begins to have anxiety attacks. In dealing with this at the mock wedding, he is accidentally killed by his brother. When the guys wife stumbles on the truth, Slater once again takes control of the situation in a way that the others do not want done.The theme of this movie is how things go from bad to worse, and through a small incident, the lives of these men are destroyed. They constantly try to rise above the situation but it continues to dominate them and things continually get worse. The children are given to the guy and his fiancé in the will, and things seem to work better, only to discover that the life insurance policy has expired and the price of their house has dropped substantially, leaving them with two children, one of them physically handicapped, and very little money to look after them.As I said before, this is a black comedy (though Man Bites Dog is still the blackest comedy that I have ever seen) and we attempt to laugh at the misfortunes of others. We want to laugh because what we see in this movie is so disturbing that we want to put it at the back of our minds and forget that such a thing has ever happened. Unfortunately, like the movie, we simply cannot do that because our past always continues to rise up and haunt us. In one way it is one of the guys freaking out, then it is a curious wife, and a brother who has overcome with depression because he has killed his elder brother.Nothing good comes out of what happens and I guess this in a way really mimics life. What we are laughing at in Very Bad Things is life itself because what we are confronted with is something that could happen to us. Slater plays the level headed one, but unfortunately, his solutions end up causing more problems that they solved. In the end he must also face not only the consequences of his actions, but he must also face he greed.All of the characters have a tragic flaw in them. The younger brother's lust, and anger finally undoes him as he accidentally kills the prostitute and then his brother. The elder brother simply cannot remain calm, and it is this liability to panic that brings about his death. The fiancé simply cannot say no, and lets his fiancé come wife, dominate him, as well as Slater. He is able to say no to the prostitute, but she is not applying pressure to him. As soon as he says no, she leaves, but his wife and Slater will not let him say no. Slater is a very intelligent and dominant man, but he falls apart when he steps on the wrong toes. He believes that there is nothing that he can do, but unfortunately when he gets inbetween the fiancees, he discovers that when you annoy the wrong person too much, they lash out.Nobody redeems themselves in this movie, and those that did not do wrong, are brought apart by other's wrongs. Nobody comes out on top, nor can they say at the end that they have won. Instead there one mistake has wormed deeply into their lives and ripped it completely apart. Now I think about the depth of this movie, I am seriously considering adding it to my collection.

The idea is okay and at least two performances are very good (Christian Slater as Robert Boyd, a vicious real estate agent, and Cameron Diaz as Laura Garrety-Fisher, Kyle's determined fiancée and later wife), but the plot is hectic and uneven; at times nice thrilling moments are replaced by long and nervous reasoning on issues like remorse and moral. However, black humor is in place and the pre-wedding events are more or less realistic; later ones I was not so fond of and the ending were not up to my expectations either. But it is true that a small thing going out of control could trigger serious consecutive incidents where there is no way back... But do not reckon on remaining "totally clean"!