Thanks 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.
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
In Couples Retreat, it's Favreau, not Vaughn, who is wound up, and this vacation comedy goes nowhere.
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
A 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.
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Among the better things in the movie, I count Vaughn's well-timed and smart dialogue.
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The results are boring boring.
40
VarietyDennis Harvey
VarietyDennis Harvey
Those involved got to spend weeks at a Bora Bora luxury resort; all we get is this not lousy but unmemorable tropical-vacation comedy.
30
L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
The 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.
30
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
A more helpful title for this date movie would have been Couples, Retreat!
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
It is absolutely, inexcusably terrible.
0
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Intelligence is insulted at every turn in this new date movie.