Couple's Retreat (2009) **

Exceedingly average ensemble comedy that will son be forgotten in the sands of time and past comedies that you only remember when flipping channels at 2 in the morning. The basic premise is that one couple want to save their marriage at a resort that you obviously have to sell your soul to go to, but need three other couples to go with them to get a nice group rate. Yes, they really want to save their marriage, but they're cheap. I think you have your first problem right there. When they arrive it turns out the fun time is put on hold because couples group sessions are mandatory. Whoops! But at least we got to go fr cheap, you suckers.

The couples obvious come out of the typical canned character department at the studio. You have the wired ones who are too cheap (Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell), the poor recently divorced guy (Faizon Love), the couple on the rocks that look like they're going to have affairs, but don't (Jon Favreau and Kristen Davis) and the de-factor leader and his wife (Vinve Vaughn and Malin Akerman). Jean Reno plays the messiah of self help, sporting a speedo which has rendered an image which I never wanted to see during my existence on this world. His right hand man is Jango Fett, for all you nerds out there. Oh and Ken Jeong is in this too, competing with Jason Bateman for the "I'm In Everything" award.

During the first five minutes you know exactly how everything is going to play out. It eventually gets there the way you thought it would with the same cliches and processed script writing that turns us into psychics. I want to call this a middle aged Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Holy shit! Sarah Marshall's in this! Weird, huh?

The movie did have some funny parts, but they were few and far between with jokes and sequences that fail (mainly Favreau attempting to masturbate twice and the whole shark thing). It's an acceptable movie to kill two hours, but after a day you will file it away with such classics as anything Vince Vaughn has been in during the last two years.