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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThanks to Vaughn, Favreau, and the stray sharp lines that pop out of everyone else, the film at least offers the lively sound of egos that still know how to swing.
- 50St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsIn Couples Retreat, it's Favreau, not Vaughn, who is wound up, and this vacation comedy goes nowhere.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA good idea for a sophisticated comedy lurks within the latest Jon Favreau-Vince Vaughn collaboration, Couples Retreat, but the filmmakers lack the courage of their convictions. So the payoff is mixed at best.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAmong the better things in the movie, I count Vaughn's well-timed and smart dialogue.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe results are boring boring.
- 40VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThose involved got to spend weeks at a Bora Bora luxury resort; all we get is this not lousy but unmemorable tropical-vacation comedy.
- 30L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyThe movie’s cumulative idea is that, forgetting the delusions of midlife panic, this is all there is, you’re already living the best possible life -- a message of sedentary wisdom betrayed when the actual film is as undeniably dreary as a plate of gummy Chicken Parmesan Tanglers.
- 30Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallChicago ReaderAndrea GronvallA more helpful title for this date movie would have been Couples, Retreat!
- 25Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezIt is absolutely, inexcusably terrible.
- 0Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenIntelligence is insulted at every turn in this new date movie.