Young love gets tested to the limit when teenage newly-weds Sarah McNerney (Murphy) and Tom Leezak (Kutcher) head to Europe on honeymoon.

The pressure is already on their fledgling marriage back home in snooty Bel Air with the open hostility of Sarah's wealthy and snobbish family.

They aren't in the least convinced that Tom, a late-night radio traffic commentator, is good enough for the privileged youngest daughter of the McNerney dynasty.

To make matters worse, Tom and Sarah have secrets from one another - he killed her beloved pooch and she slept with the man Tom sees as his greatest rival.

As Tom philosophises: "Can the perfect relationship be ruined by marriage" - the chances are all will be revealed by the end of the honeymoon.

If love is blind, Sarah sees for the first time that she's married a boorish sports jock with the usual subtle appreciation of European manners we've come to expect.

For her part, Sarah is still attracted to old flame Peter (Christian Kane), a wheeler-dealer who embodies all the cultural savoir-faire that blue collar Tom lacks.

Not long into the story you realise that Sarah has made a big mistake - Tom is, indeed, a slow-witted redneck with zero social skills.

The difference is in both the script and the acting, with Murphy winningly winsome while Kutcher lumbers from frat-boy prat to awkward suitor without pause for breath.

"How often are we in Europe," she asks Tom as they halt outside an American sports bar in Venice. "How often are the Dodgers on in Europe," he replies.

Ironically, like most marriages, this film is pretty hard work with an awful lot of silences between the decent bits.

It all pans out pretty much as you'd expect, with the final scenes reminiscent of nothing so much as a syrup-drenched case study for Relate.

Tim Evans