Couples Retreat - a bit more serious than I thought

What can I say about this one other than it was "Okay"? Couples Retreat is a movie with an all-star comedic cast including Vince Vaughan, Jason Bateman (Arrested Development, Juno), Jon Favreau (Swingers, I Love You, Man), Faison Love (The Perfect Holiday, Idlewild), Kristen Davis (Charlotte from Sex and the City), Malin Akerman (The Heartbreak Kid, Watchmen), and Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, When in Rome). When ever you have Vince Vaughan and Jason Bateman in a movie, there are going to be laughs. This movie was no different. There were plenty of laughs. I mean I laughed a lot, but for a comedy to be truly funny and really good, the ratio between laughs and seriousness needs to be right. This movie was too light on the laughs and too heavy on the seriousness. Hence, the highly specific "Okay" rating.

Couples Retreat is centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional. In attending these sessions, the couples realize that things aren't so hunky dory and all of the couples problems get multiplied and exacerbated.

Like I said before, this movie is bad, its just not great. I expected more from the comic geniuses in this flick, and I didn't get it. Vince Vaughan has some of his classic, hilarious rants. The naked Asian guy from The Hangover is in it. You see all the hot girls in their underwear and bikinis. My favorite part is seeing Kristen Davis, who I think is an absolute smoke house, in a not much clothing a lot. And the scenery is breath taking. It made want to go on vacation bad. But the real scene stealer is the little kid who plays Vince Vaughan and Malin Akerman's youngest kid. He's cute as hell and everything he says and does is hilarious. Obviously the cuteness helps, but still.

If you rent this one, you won't be terribly disappointed, but you won't be thrilled either. If I had to give it a number grade, it would be probably a B- maybe a C+ if I wrote this on a Monday.