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...there movies nobody likes but everyone sees? Yes, especially over weekends when only one major-studio film is released. That seemed to be the case with Couples Retreat, the Vince Vaughn comedy that received a flatulent 13% on Rotten Tomatoes' survey of critics' reviews and a mediocre B rating from CinemaScore's poll of exiting moviegoers. Yet by Sunday night, according to early estimates, it will have earned $35.4 million, the top gross ever for a movie on Columbus Day weekend...
...Couples Retreat, $35.3 million, first weekend 2. Zombieland, $15 million; $47.8 million, second week 3. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, $12 million; $96.2 million, fourth week 4. Toy Story 3-D and Toy Story 2 3-D, $7.7 million; $22.7 million, second week 5. Paranormal Activity, $7.1 million; $8.2 million, third week 6. Surrogates, $4.1 million; $32.6 million, third week 7. The Invention of Lying, $3.4 million; $12.3 million, second week 8. Whip It, $2.8 million; $8.6 million, second week 9. Capitalism: A Love Story, $2.7 million; $9.1 million, third week 10. Fame, $2.6 million; $20 million, third week...
...Couples Retreat tells the tale of a reduced-rate trip to Bora Bora taken by a quartet of Midwestern guys (Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love) and their spouses or squeezes (four actresses with Ks in their names). It's now 13 years since Vaughn and Favreau made their early rep with the smart buddy-comedy Swingers. In the interim, Favreau has become a respected director (Elf, Iron Man) and Vaughn, pretty much, a movie star. Three of the films he has top-lined - Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up and Four Christmases - have taken in about $450 million...
...Couples Retreat was co-written by Vaughn and Favreau, with an assist from Dana Fox, and it has the choppiness you'd expect from too many cooks in the kitchen (in contrast, Favreau was the only screenwriter on Swingers). I'm fine with the original Trent ("money") and Mike (not "money," no matter what Trent said) moving to the suburbs, having kids, getting fat and spending weekends at Home Depot and Applebee's. These things happen. What's depressing is that there's hardly a creative spark in this sour, offensive, contrived story, and its sloppiness is more consistent than...
...idea of a happy ending might entail Joey being devoured by sharks somewhere east of Eden. Instead we get marital resolutions based on the fear that nothing is worse than being alone at Applebee's on a Friday night. Lucy may beg to differ by the time Couples Retreat: Return to Eden opens...