Weekend Movie Forecast: Couples Retreat Vs. An Education

Look, we know Couples Retreatâthe rom-com about four dysfunctional married couples trying to heal their marriages with a trip to a retreat center in Bora Boraâis 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 doesnât always go where itâs appropriate. In a nutshell, that subplot explains everything thatâs 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 itâs ostensibly about, and cut away the extraneous stuff... Then again, when a movie is all fat, itâs hard to know where to trim." — Gothamist

John Del Signore

Published Oct 9, 2009

Modified Oct 9, 2009

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Click on the film stills for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include An Education, The Damned United, Adventures of Power, Free Style, Good Hair, The Heretics, Peter and Vandy, Yes Men Fix the World, Lisztomania, Bronson, Paranormal Activity, Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles,

Weekend Movie Forecast: <em>Couples Retreat</em> Vs. <em>An Education</em>