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Couples Retreat (2009)

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Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 156
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 139

Despite a talented cast and some reliably pleasant interplay between Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, Couples Retreat leaves viewers stranded in an arid, mirthless comedy.

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Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 29

Despite a talented cast and some reliably pleasant interplay between Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, Couples Retreat leaves viewers stranded in an arid, mirthless comedy.

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Their relationship in danger of dissipating, a couple racing to salvage their marriage invites three other couples to join them at a tropical island resort. Upon arriving at the island paradise to enjoy some carefree fun in the sun, the other couples are disturbed to discover that participation in therapy sessions is mandatory if they hope to remain at the resort. Peter Bilingsley directs a comedy penned by Jon Favreau, produced by Vince Vaughn, and pairing the two Made collaborators onscreen

PG-13,

Comedy

Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Dana Fox

Feb 9, 2010

$109.2M

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All Critics (157) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (141) | DVD (7)

Why couldn't Couples Retreat have been lighthearted and zany throughout, instead of trying to push across a message about picket-fence monogamy?

October 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment (1)
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Expectations of farce are stymied by long stretches of mid-life navel gazing.

October 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out
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It's too easy to say that Peter Billingsley shot his eye out with this inept comic trifle, but...well, he shot his eye out.

October 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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This is one of those films, like last week's Whip It and so many others of late, that looks like it was a lot fun to make. It's just not all that much fun to watch.

October 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comments (2)
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There are also scenes, the disjointed kind that wander off aimlessly in the vague hope of finding a movie, not to mention a laugh.

October 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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Couples Retreat is a comedy of exhaustion. But it is the comedy itself, in both concept and execution, that seems tired.

October 9, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Times
New York Times
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A Tyler Perry movie for white folks.

March 4, 2011 Full Review Source: LarsenOnFilm
LarsenOnFilm

Couples Retreat is a lazy, unimaginative comedy that, with the talent on show, should have been a whole lot more than another boring rom-com to throw on the pile.

April 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire
Fan The Fire

...an utterly incompetent comedic affair...

March 14, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews

A bit of a guilty pleasure. But, most of the humor falls flat. Interesting that it's a Vince Vaughn vehicle that doesn't give Vaughn enough to do. Paul Chambers, CNN.

February 10, 2010 Full Review Source: CNNRadio
CNNRadio

A pleasant romantic romp likely to delight, provided you're willing to put your brain on pause for a couple of hours.

February 9, 2010 Full Review Source: Sly Fox
Sly Fox

full review at Movies for the Masses

December 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses
Movies for the Masses

Instead of being a sharp, witty comedy about married couples experiencing vacation therapy together, it's more of a pinheads-in-paradise routine with only a few funny lines.

December 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

It's some kind of trick when a film can make Jason Bateman look unsubtle.

November 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Nitrate Online | Comment (1)
Nitrate Online

Somewhere in all of this, there is the potential for a pretty good comedy, but this movie isn't it.

October 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Christianity Today
Christianity Today

The vapid couples become sniping or sarcastic chunks of white blandness even sharks would spit back up. A kind of bad video-game romance-comedy: 2D characters, flat dialogue, an exotic backdrop, and lame new levels of relationship challenges.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Couples is so formulaic, so fake and relentlessly bland, it's hard to care if any of these pairings get a divorce, drown or are eaten by sharks. It has neither the ring of truth nor the fun of fantasy.

October 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK]
Times [UK]

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, wrote the witless script, so have only themselves to blame.

October 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

The debutant director is done no favours by a screenplay from Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau which gives him little to play with and them few chances to shine as actors.

October 20, 2009 Full Review Source: This is London
This is London

A patchwork collection of derivative gags and relationship drama that seems leftover from old 'thirtysomething' episodes.

October 19, 2009
The Trend

Retreat as quickly as possible.

October 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Illinois Times
Illinois Times

For all its visual splendor, to say nothing of its likable cast, the movie never feels as liberating as its locale.

October 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing

Audience Reviews for Couples Retreat

Cheap, unfunny jokes abound in this purported comedy about trying to maintain (cough) healthy (cough, cough) normal relationships. The plot is a nightmare: stick the characters in an environment that they can't leave, then let the film go nowhere for about 90 minutes before tacking on a "but we'll all be O.K. now" ending. Vapid, pointless movie: no romance, and no comedy (though this isn't shocking in Romantic Comedies anymore), and worse, no stakes, nothing to invest in and no characters to get behind. Mailed in, from beginning to end. Don't watch this.
January 5, 2013
danperry17

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Funny rom com about four couples who go to a tropical island resort only to find themselves in couples therapy! Good cast.
September 27, 2009
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