"During such moments, a distracting, feel-good score — surprisingly from "Slumdog Millionaire" Oscar-winner A.R. Rahman — pipes in early and often."
----------------------- Capsule reviews: `Good Hair' and others By The Associated Press (AP) – 9 hours ago Capsule reviews of films opening this week: "Couples Retreat" — This is what life might have been like if the guys from "Swingers" had grown up, moved to the suburbs and turned into lame, sitcommy cliches. Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn team up again, on screen and on the script (along with Dana Fox), for this broad comedy about four couples who go on a tropical vacation together. In theory, they're all there to support their friends Jason (Jason Bateman) and Cynthia (Kristen Bell) as they try to save their marriage through the couples' counseling the resort offers. Little do they know they'll get sucked into agonizing therapy sessions that reveal their own rifts. Under the direction of Peter Billingsley, another longtime Vaughn friend and collaborator making his first feature, "Couples Retreat" veers back and forth in a jarring way between crude sexual humor and supposedly poignant moments. The couples endure forced nudity and a wildly erotic yoga class; Favreau's character, Joey, and his wife Lucy (Kristin Davis) each try to get it on with their respective massage therapists. But they also must bare their souls. Each of these characters is exactly the same person the whole way through, until one night when they all magically experience an epiphany that makes them more communicative, patient and loving. During such moments, a distracting, feel-good score — surprisingly from "Slumdog Millionaire" Oscar-winner A.R. Rahman — pipes in early and often. A few funny lines emerge here and there, but "Couples Retreat" mostly feels repetitive and overlong at nearly two hours. You wouldn't mind getting voted off this island. PG-13 on appeal for sexual content and language. 110 min. One and a half stars out of four. _ Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jnMWIHwQ5pkPV5QRpUsP_N-tWNXwD9B6GA3G0
