Weekend Movie Forecast: Couples Retreat Vs. An Education

Look, we know Couples Retreat—the rom-com about four dysfunctional married couples trying to heal their marriages with a trip to a retreat center in Bora Bora—is going to bite, but we're such suckers for Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, and Jon Favreau that we have no choice but to see it... someday on DVD. Scott Tobias at the Onion has ended any naive hope we still clung to after seeing the trailer: "The marital comedy Couples Retreat features a running gag about a little boy in the midst of potty training who doesn’t always go where it’s appropriate. In a nutshell, that subplot explains everything that’s wrong about the film: Its propensity for barrel-scraping lowbrow gags, its undisciplined, catch-all approach to comedy, and perhaps above all, its chronic inability to focus on what it’s ostensibly about, and cut away the extraneous stuff... Then again, when a movie is all fat, it’s hard to know where to trim."