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(1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 7% Rotten Page   1   1.5/5 "A bit like getting relationship advice from a clown. A really, really unfunny one."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke "The secret to a happy marriage involves falling in love over and over again with the same person. 'Couples Retreat' offers an amusing illustration of that old saying."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D "There's only one winner in this film, and it's Applebee's. Take my word for it and watch some Travel Channel instead."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 2/5 "While Billingsley acquits himself well in the directing department, it's the script that finally sinks (this film)."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 2/10 "If battering an audience in the face with Jon Favreau's waxed bosoms for 102 minutes now qualifies as comedy, I never want to laugh again."   CampBlood.org   Brian Juergens D "A comedy without any identifiable humor. Retreat is dreadful, but to consider just how many gifted performers are here treading water makes the heart sick. Ralphie, how dare you."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "It's some kind of trick when a film can make Jason Bateman look unsubtle."   Nitrate Online   Cynthia Fuchs C "Kinda stupid, kinda funny. It's the ultimate fall film."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 1.5/4 "After traveling to Eden with the shallow, self-involved, unpleasant twits that populate Couples Retreat, you'll be wishing they'd all have packed their bags and gone straight to hell, instead."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C "The cast's enthusiasm goes a long way toward keeping the whole mediocre affair from becoming completely intolerable."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "A giant black hole in the center of the comedy universe sucking in the best ideas and situations from other entities into an inescapable ride to nothingness."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress D "Aside from a few almost accidental Vaughn- and Bateman-isms, there is not an amusing moment in the entire 107-minute film -- and no insight, or heart, or even genuine sweetness, either."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov D "A loud, crude, dreary misfire that feels like it was cobbled together from material cut from other lousy comedies."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "Might be funnier with several rum punches in hand."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "The acting is a mixed bag. Jon Favreau and Faizon Love, who never hit a false note, are the standouts."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/5 "Couples Retreat has an eye, and ear, for the way relationships fall apart terribly slowly and then all at once. What it lacks is a truly concentrated comedy punch, preferring instead to land a series of scattered jabs from the 16 arms of its eight leads."   MSN Movies   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2/4 "On the surface, "Couples Retreat" appears to be a quickly stitched together comedy that places a bunch of likable actors in a tropical setting for some cheap laughs. And that's exactly what it is."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 1.5/5 "At least Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and their fellow cast and crewmates were able to spend time on a gorgeous tropical island while making this mirthless, half-hearted relationship comedy."   Boxoffice Magazine   John P. McCarthy 1/5 "It’s too easy to say that Peter Billingsley shot his eye out with this inept comic trifle, but…well, he shot his eye out."   Time Out New York   Keith Uhlich 3/5 "a Tyler Perry movie for the rest of America, without so much melodrama"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C- "...may be set in Bora-Bora, but it's about as much fun as a lock down with an obsessive religious cult."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "Doesn't have either the guts or wherewithal to follow through with the humor and stick to its setup."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "Maybe it's pointless to complain about the shocking lack of elegance to an instantly forgettable bit of multiplex fluff like Couples Retreat. It's like complaining about the food at Applebee's..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "Couples Retreat is like watching somebody's boring vacation videos, except that they're filled with big stars."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "We just keep wishing they would get out of the way and let us enjoy the pretty scenery."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1/4 "Ultimately comes off as merely an excuse for stars to take a vacation on the studio's%u2014and moviegoing public's%u2014dime."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "The end result, sad to say, is just about as entertaining as watching someone else's home movies for two solid hours"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 1.5/5 "The script for this comedy is so half-baked that we begin to wonder why it was made at all. Not only is it resolutely unfunny, but it never dips beneath a superficial examination of relationship cliches."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/10 "Floundering, only intermittently funny. Wait for the dvd."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger  (1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 7% Rotten Page   1