Couples Retreat is kind of a romantic comedy, but, it's actually funny. Unlike most romantic comedies the couples actually have some real world problems. I guess people eat them up, but, these romantic comedies where the people have problems like two extremely handsome, wealthy, dashing men with nothing but time want to marry the starlet and she just can't make up her mind are so boring.
Vince Vaughn and his wife have a lack of time together issue, like lots of people do. Another couple got married really young and never got to have a wild and free youth. The couple who arrange the retreat are both type A maniacs who over analyze their life, and the last couple is a newly divorced guy and his much younger rebound girlfriend, who insists on calling him Daddy, 'like she does all her boyfriends'.
As a bonus all the wives are pretty hot and spend much of the movie in bikinis.
One down side is, I think there were some missed chances at some funny but adult humor that they by passed to keep a PG -13 rating. Because you know how much kids love a good marriage therapy movie. You remember when you were 12 and you could so relate to the 40 year old couple who were so busy with kids and work they didn't make time for each other.
Over all I thought the movie was pretty funny and worth the price of admission, though, I saw it at a sneak preview for free, so it didn't have to blow my socks off.
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