MOVIE REVIEW - Couples Retreat

It's been a few months so it must be time for another Vince Vaughn comedy, this one is called Couples Retreat. It also boasts a real nice supporting cast of up and comers, and fun character actors, and you may be priming yourself up for a real fall off your seat, roll in the aisles laugh-fest.

Don't worry, you won't need a seat belt. You will smile and you will laugh at times, but overall I'm thinking this is going to leave some Vaughn fans a little cold. CR is not a wash-out by any means. It's just not hilarious as it is being billed in the hype.

It's the story of four suburban young couples who agree to go on this retreat in one of the most beautiful places on earth so they can work on their relationships. Now I'm paraphrasing, but that's the general story here. What will they learn about their marriages and themselves? Through the laughs, that's the attempted storyline. They of course meet a cast of idiots and weirdo's on the retreat that make it amusing at times, but overall it's cheap laughs.

CR makes the huge mistake that many comedies do. If you've seen the TV spot, or the trailer at the theater, you've seen the whole flick. Every big punchline has already been delivered, and you have nothing new to discover. This is a huge problem in this movie. More than most. You've seen this movie before you sit down.

Also, as you might expect, they do sink to the lowest common denominator a few times to pull laughs out of you, and some of it works. Trouble is there's just not enough originality to go along with it to off-set the predictable bathroom stuff.

We could use a good laugh these days, and you'll get some here with CR, but I'm not sure it requires you to go buy a ticket when renting this flick in 9o days would be just fine.

Couples Retreat. Average Vaughn....just average.