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67Thanks to Vaughn, Favreau, and the stray sharp lines that pop out of everyone else, the film at least offers the lively sound of egos that still know how to swing.
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63Despite being mediocre and largely forgettable, Couples Retreat is not unpleasant, although it's easier to recommend it for home viewing than for a trip to a theater.
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50A good idea for a sophisticated comedy lurks within the latest Jon Favreau-Vince Vaughn collaboration, Couples Retreat, but the filmmakers lack the courage of their convictions. So the payoff is mixed at best.
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50Among the better things in the movie, I count Vaughn's well-timed and smart dialogue.
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50The results are boring boring.
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50The story and the humor get progressively skimpier than an Ipanema bikini.
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50In Couples Retreat, it's Favreau, not Vaughn, who is wound up, and this vacation comedy goes nowhere.
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50You'll have a few laughs, for sure. Just don't expect to enjoy yourself as much as everybody on screen.
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40Those involved got to spend weeks at a Bora Bora luxury resort; all we get is this not lousy but unmemorable tropical-vacation comedy.
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38Tedious, unromantic, sophomoric and only sporadically funny.
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35First-time feature director Peter Billingsley could have enlivened the action with more vigorous editing. Everything takes too long, and the slapstick sequences are particularly lethargic.
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33Features a running gag about a little boy in the midst of potty training who doesn't always go where it's appropriate. In a nutshell, that subplot explains everything that's wrong about the film.
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30The movie's cumulative idea is that, forgetting the delusions of midlife panic, this is all there is, you're already living the best possible life -- a message of sedentary wisdom betrayed when the actual film is as undeniably dreary as a plate of gummy Chicken Parmesan Tanglers.
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Coasts on comic fumes, relying on colloquialisms, foreign accents, racial stereotypes, lemon sharks, Speedos and inopportune erections to supply the funny. Any one of these things might work in a comedy that was less contrived.
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30A more helpful title for this date movie would have been Couples, Retreat!
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25The cast got to spend a month shooting on Bora Bora. So that explains why they're in the movie. Why you'd spend good money for a ticket to watch them have all the fun and not have any fun yourself passes understanding.
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25It is absolutely, inexcusably terrible.
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Too bad the movie is spoiling the view.
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25Everything about Couples Retreat feels plastic, though: the jokes, the trees, the extras, the attitudes. It's dumbed-down entertainment aimed at a dumbed-down audience - the comedy equivalent of a McMansion.
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25Here's the title: Couples Retreat. And here's the review: Couples, Retreat. Yep, just find the verb, treat it as a command, and vamoose, unless you harbour an abiding curiosity about how eternally long 100 minutes can feel.
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25Finds it as impossible to locate a laugh in glittering Bora Bora as it was for Operation Enduring Freedom to nail Osama bin Laden in gritty Tora Bora.
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20It's too easy to say that Peter Billingsley shot his eye out with this inept comic trifle, but…well, he shot his eye out.
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20Neither funny nor honest. The exact opposite of a retreat, it's merely exhausting.
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10An R-rated version of this mess would be only more gratingly dishonest as it tried to hide its weak sentimentality behind a fig leaf of vulgarity.
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0A schmaltzy, smutty and mean-spirited quasi-satire.
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0Intelligence is insulted at every turn in this new date movie.
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0It's the audience for this film that will require therapy.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 33
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Mixed: 2 out of 33
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Negative: 19 out of 33
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