Couples Retreat | 
 enlarge | Director: Peter Billingsley
Actors: Vince Vaughn, Malin Åkerman, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 1245
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 025192022180
UPC: 025192022180
EAN: 0025192022180
ASIN: B002ZGW92E
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: February 9, 2010
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Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau team up after their '90s career-making hit, Swingers, to write and costar in Couples Retreat, a romantic comedy that's heavy on the satire, but is also knowing and wry, as Swingers is at its best. Vaughn and Favreau are joined in the top-notch cast by the always engaging Kristin Bell (whose appearance with Vaughn, in a romantic tropical setting, may remind viewers of Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis (Sex and the City), Faizon Love, and Jean Reno. Fans of romantic comedies, and comedies of manners, will be delighted at the snappy interaction among the actors, and the zingers delivered by the script. "You are not buying some 20-year-old broad a motorcycle!" yells Vaughn's character, Dave, to Love's character, Shane, who's having an early midlife crisis. "She's a kid! Buy her a Hello Kitty book!" Turns out that all the couples in Dave and Shane's circle are having issues, and decide to take a group tropical vacation. Ah, but there's a catch: the island getaway comes with mandatory couples counseling and bonding events. Most of the film's laughs come from cringe-worthy fish-out-of-water moments, though there are some pretty great fish-in-water moments, too: Dave begins to panic during a test involving swimming with sharks. "It's time to get the gun, and shoot some fish!" Reno is also a standout, as the unctuous New Age-y director of the retreat, fearless in spewing half-nonsense yet having the almost admirable courage to stand behind his convictions. The film was directed with a light hand by Peter Billingsley, who starred as young Ralphie in A Christmas Story, and who has acted with Vaughn in Four Christmases and The Break-Up. And somehow, among the lunacy and the beauty of nature, friends and soulmates may just find the way back to each other. Just steer clear of the Jet Skis. --A.T. Hurley
Product Description
When four couples head to a tropical resort for a vacation, they discover that one of the couples is there for marriage counseling and the others must
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 Bland and disappointing September 3, 2010
D. Sorel (Massachusetts USA)
When Jason Smith calls his friends together for a powerpoint presentation, they think that he's just trying to sell them something. However, Jason and his wife Cynthia are actually announcing that their marriage is failing and they're planning to get a divorce. Before they finalize it, they are planning to attend a couples' retreat on a Caribbean island and they want all of their friends to join them. At first, they all resist but eventually decide that a vacation on beautiful island might not be that bad even if they do have to talk about their feelings once a day. Unfortunately for them, their "vacation" becomes a bonding experience as they all attend yoga classes, steam baths, and therapy sessions. Through all of this it becomes clear that Jason and Cynthia are not the only couple with problems.
I think my disappointment with this movie came from the fact that it's not funny enough to be a comedy but it's not powerful enough to be a drama. Some of the issues that the couples face are very real and at times the film was even insightful, yet this was undermined by its weak attempts at humor. I can honestly say that I didn't laugh, chuckle, or smirk even once! Sadly, I would have to say to pass on this film because though I loved the cast...I couldn't even push myself to like it.
 was a gift August 21, 2010
Manuel oliver
I haven't seen it yet I bought it for a gift they gave it 5 stars now I to have see it
a COUPLE of factS with no RETREAT August 2, 2010
Milkyway Movie Lover
The ratings for this movie are way too low, that is really far off in this case. I'm glad I believed the people who praised it. Vince Vaughn is quickly winning me over to his movies. He has such a natural delivery when he cracks off with a funny line. In the movie he would make analogies to things presently happening to other more bizarre things we all know about, but only he would think up these funny comparisons. He made the whole movie, but the rest of the cast was right on also, everyone seemed good at their role. It has been said this movie isn't a comedy, but the truth is, it's more than a comedy, it's humor mixed in perfectly to keep you off guard, you never see the laughs coming. I'm sure glad I decided to buy this movie. It's a lot better than it's present rating, that's for sure!
 Save Your Money and Time July 26, 2010
Michael P. Gallagher (Houston, TX)
It is very rare when I start a movie and turn it off prior to finishing it - this is one of the exceptions. Very bad acting and not much of a story line, I lasted about 20 minutes or so. I would highly recommend you save your money and not waste your time with this one.
watch it if you don't have anything better to do, but it will be precious time lost! July 23, 2010
Medusa (Troy, MI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You can glimpse the plot of the movie from the title, it is exactly what it says, only completely lame with over-the-hill actors getting richer while wasting our money! I wonder why some people think empty acting can be funny. What happened to smart jokes, even silly jokes that will leave you breathless? Having Vince Vaughn in this movie is a total insult to him; another example how having funny people in a stupid movie doesn't make it funnier!
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