Mindless in the worst way, Couples Retreat exists for those without a sense of imagination or realism toward love and relationships.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 30, 2023

The themes and overall missions of each set of couples in the film are too serious to simply slide in a few one-liners and sight gags and expect it not to feel forced.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Will I recommend it? Not hardly.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

[Couples Retreat] is all about acknowledging feelings and good sex. Do we really need a film to tell us that?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 16, 2019

The narrative is clunking and lazy, there to get characters from A to B without any respect for coherence or us, the audience.

| Aug 30, 2018

I like the actors, but the movie did them no justice.

| Jan 23, 2018

A Tyler Perry movie for white folks.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 4, 2011

Couples Retreat is a lazy, unimaginative comedy that, with the talent on show, should have been a whole lot more than another boring rom-com to throw on the pile.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2010

...an utterly incompetent comedic affair...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 14, 2010

A bit of a guilty pleasure. But, most of the humor falls flat. Interesting that it's a Vince Vaughn vehicle that doesn't give Vaughn enough to do. Paul Chambers, CNN.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 10, 2010

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| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 10, 2009

Instead of being a sharp, witty comedy about married couples experiencing vacation therapy together, it's more of a pinheads-in-paradise routine with only a few funny lines.

| Original Score: C | Dec 2, 2009

It's some kind of trick when a film can make Jason Bateman look unsubtle.

| Nov 19, 2009

Somewhere in all of this, there is the potential for a pretty good comedy, but this movie isn't it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 31, 2009

The vapid couples become sniping or sarcastic chunks of white blandness even sharks would spit back up. A kind of bad video-game romance-comedy: 2D characters, flat dialogue, an exotic backdrop, and lame new levels of relationship challenges.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2009

Couples is so formulaic, so fake and relentlessly bland, it's hard to care if any of these pairings get a divorce, drown or are eaten by sharks. It has neither the ring of truth nor the fun of fantasy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 20, 2009

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, wrote the witless script, so have only themselves to blame.

| Oct 20, 2009

The debutant director is done no favours by a screenplay from Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau which gives him little to play with and them few chances to shine as actors.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 20, 2009

A patchwork collection of derivative gags and relationship drama that seems leftover from old 'thirtysomething' episodes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2009

Retreat as quickly as possible.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Oct 19, 2009