MOVIE REVIEW: Vince Vaughn is the new Renee Zellwegger. I mean he's been on almost every romantic-comedy since The Break-Up that I can remember. Don't get me wrong. Vaugn is funny...but in small doses.
In his new comedy, Couples Retreat, Vaughn plays Dave. A man whose marriage is slowly going into the dumps. But of course, he's not alone. All three of his pals (Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, and Faizon Love) have other reasons but are still on the same marital boat going over a waterfall.
The four agree to pitch in on an island couples only therapy session in sunny Bora Bora in hopes of rekindling their marriages at a resort run by a flighty Frenchman named Marcel (Jean Reno).
While the cast is entertaining and have good chemistry, it's everything else that really ruins this pre-mature mid-life crisis story. Yes, this is a comedy that isn't expected to have an award worthy writing. But, at least, have some organization instead of being forced to watch an edited version of a wedding honeymoon in hell.
What the movie is hoping to do in the end is make the audience feel better about their own relationship. But if it thinks by using a tired cliché of men and women being from different planets by having the guys give themselves therapy with beer and video games and the women have a girl-to-girl talk to console one another, it better hope that the comedy is good enough for the moviegoers to not care about it.
Fortunately enough, the movie has a few moments of good laughs but overall a long Vaughn-depended vehicle that can get borderline annoying and sparkling.
Couples Retreat (2009) (Universal Pictures). MPAA rating: PG-13 for sexual content and language. Running Time: 1 hour, 47 minutes. Now Playing. U.S. Box Office Gross: $35.3 million (10/11/09). Currently at #1 in Box Office Sales (10/11/09).
COMEDY FACTOR: BFUN FACTOR: D
STORY: DORIGINALITY: F
ACTING: C
SCORE: C
MUSIC: C
STUPID LEVEL: 7/10
VERDICT: You're own marital problems will make more sense but probably won't be as funny.
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