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| Couples Retreat Review |
| Posted by Erik Luers on 11.01.2009 |
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Not much to say here, except that I didn't hate this movie as much as I thought I might. The jokes are lame but not offensive or outlandishly dumb.
The pacing, though, is all off. It's an overlong comedy with a few good jokes. Sometimes it forgets it's a comedy and seems to just glide on plot (an extended sequence looking for Kristen Bell's character, for instance). Still, I did find myself laughing with them and not at them.
The couples therapy sessions drag, but then again, I'm sure they do in real life as well.
Beautiful scenery in this movie, as all four couples go to a place called Eden. So did Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in another movie about relationships. It was not the same Eden, and I bet you can tell which movie characters had the better time.
Isn't Jason Bateman a little too old for Kristen Bell? I think so.
Oh, and a little boy in the film, of about five, uses a model toilet in a Home Depot sort of place not once but twice. He gets away with it both times. That was funny to me, but not for the employees that had to clean it up.
This is one of the better Vince Vaughn comedies out there. It isn't different really, just above some of the others.
Final Rating: 5/10 |
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