Hugely disappointing, painfully unfunny comedy that completely wastes its talented cast and then compounds the misery with a dismal script.
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10/15/09
Couples Retreat (2009)
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Reviews Counted:144
Fresh:17
Rotten:127
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: 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.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:14-10-2009
Synopsis: Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Faizon Love star in Universal Pictures' upcoming comedy Couples Retreat. Based on an original idea of... [More]
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Kristen Bell, Jason Bateman, Malin Akerman
Director: Peter Billingsley
Reviews for Couples Retreat
It's some kind of trick when a film can make Jason Bateman look unsubtle.
11/19/09
Somewhere in all of this, there is the potential for a pretty good comedy, but this movie isn't it.
10/31/09
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.
10/23/09
A patchwork collection of derivative gags and relationship drama that seems leftover from old 'thirtysomething' episodes.
10/19/09
Retreat as quickly as possible.
10/19/09
For all its visual splendor, to say nothing of its likable cast, the movie never feels as liberating as its locale.
10/17/09
Why couldn't Couples Retreat have been lighthearted and zany throughout, instead of trying to push across a message about picket-fence monogamy?
10/16/09
Couples Retreat comes across as a movie that was made... because it was felt that if the right buttons were pushed, this might make money.
10/16/09
That the wonderful French actor Jean Reno plays the therapist is a sign that his agent is not doing a good enough job finding him film roles in American movies.
10/16/09
This couples-in-conflict comedy starts strongly but then slips into the turquoise water of paradise lost.
10/16/09
Bora Bora was a beautiful location to film at and added that much needed taste of paradise to a rather bitter sweet subject of a troubled marriage.
10/16/09
...truly dismal...This is a movie to avoid.
10/15/09
Director Billingsley, who once played Ralphie in 1983's "A Christmas Story," should have picked up that old BB gun of his and blown the hell out of the script before he ever signed on to make a movie out of it.
10/15/09
Floundering, only intermittently funny. Wait for the dvd.
10/15/09
Couples, retreat: this movie has the power to make any date feel as endless and soul-sucking as the lifetime’s worth of defective, hateful marriages that doom the film’s protagonists.
10/14/09
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.
10/14/09
The actresses are so wasted, they're even demoted to fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth billing under every one of the dudes. At least the guys aren't having fun either.
10/14/09
Good for some laughs and some likable characters; Vaughn and Favreau stand out while Bateman fades into the background
10/13/09
a Tyler Perry movie for the rest of America, without so much melodrama
10/12/09
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November 18, 2009:
Universal Causes Couples Controversy 
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October 09, 2009:
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