Review of Couples Retreat (2009) by Justin R — 16 Nov 2010

I love Jason Bateman, like Vince Vaughn, and am very easy to please with comedies. What I mean by that is, I can usually forgive a comedy for being a terrible movie, so long as it actually makes me laugh.

But romantic comedies pretty much spit in the face of comedy. It is the dumbest genre of legitimate film to ever exist. And even with that being said, I was surprised by exactly how much this movie sucks. Beginning to end, Couples Retreat is WORTHLESS. Okay? Don't watch it. You'll just lose respect for every person involved.

The movie would have been infinitely better, I think, if they had just burned the script and not had a director. Just put some cameras around the actors and let them go improv for a few hours. Edit out the dead time, and Viola. A better movie than this shitbird. At least the guys have some chemistry between them.

I don't even understand what all these people are doing making this movie. It's my understanding that the dudes in this movie actually wrote the script. None of them realized it sucked?

You know guys, you don't have to release everything you produce! It's not an indictment on you as an artist to admit that you make something that sucks. What is, is not knowing when what you've done sucks, and you proceed to show it off like it doesn't.

They should have buried this thing.

In the words of Frank Reynolds, "It's crap. Pure, unadulterated crap.".