Couples Retreat [Blu-ray]
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Product Description
Vince Vaughn leads an all-star cast in the laugh-out-loud comedy about eight friends whose vacation in paradise is one they’ll never forget. Co-starring Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Malin Akerman, Couples Retreat is a hilarious party in paradise, loaded with laughter and fun! Their group-rate vacation comes at a price when they discover that participation in the resort's unconventional couples therapy activities is anything but optional.
Vaughn and Favreau are joined in the top-notch cast by the always engaging Kristin Bell (whose appearance with Vaughn, in a romantic tropical setting, may remind viewers of Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis (Sex and the City), Faizon Love, and Jean Reno. "She's a kid! Buy her a Hello Kitty book!" Turns out that all the couples in Dave and Shane's circle are having issues, and decide to take a group tropical vacation. Fans of romantic comedies, and comedies of manners, will be delighted at the snappy interaction among the actors, and the zingers delivered by the script.
"You are not buying some 20-year-old broad a motorcycle!" yells Vaughn's character, Dave, to Love's character, Shane, who's having an early midlife crisis. --A.T. Hurley Most of the film's laughs come from cringe-worthy fish-out-of-water moments, though there are some pretty great fish-in-water moments, too: Dave begins to panic during a test involving swimming with sharks. Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau team up after their '90s career-making hit, Swingers, to write and costar in Couples Retreat, a romantic comedy that's heavy on the satire, but is also knowing and wry, as Swingers is at its best. Ah, but there's a catch: the island getaway comes with mandatory couples counseling and bonding events. "It's time to get the gun, and shoot some fish!"
Reno is also a standout, as the unctuous New Age-y director of the retreat, fearless in spewing half-nonsense yet having the almost admirable courage to stand behind his convictions. And somehow, among the lunacy and the beauty of nature, friends and soulmates may just find the way back to each other. The film was directed with a light hand by Peter Billingsley, who starred as young Ralphie in A Christmas Story, and who has acted with Vaughn in Four Christmases and The Break-Up. Just steer clear of the Jet Skis.
Product Info
- Actor
- Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Amy Hill, Faizon Love
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- Blu-ray
- Brand
- Universal Studios
- Department
- DVD
- EAN
- 0025192057076
- Format
- AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Label
- Universal Studios
- Manufacturer
- Universal Studios
- MPN
- 025192057076
- Number Of Discs
- 2
- Original Release Date
- 2009-01-01
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Universal Studios
- Release Date
- 2010-02-09
- Running Time
- 113
- Studio
- Universal Studios
- Theatrical Release Date
- 2009
- Title
- Couples Retreat [Blu-ray]
- UPC
- 025192057076
- ASIN
- B002ZGW92Y
- Sales Rank
- 22098
- Provider
- Amazon
- As of
- February 10, 2012, 5:46 am
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