Couples Retreat

Kristin Davis (Sex & The City) joins a lot of other funny people in this story of four couples who go to a special holiday destination. Fortunately, as the four females are a blonde, a brunette, a redhead and a black girl, it's easy to remember who's who even if you're not familiar with all the actresses. One couple goes along wanting marriage counselling, but the other three most certainly do not. Yet they discover this is a mandatory part of the package. Which results in couples who think they have no problems with their relationship, all becoming convinced they do have a problem after all! How will this work out - will they all split up, or swap partners, or what? This 'thriller' element keeps one going, though in fact some very funny scenes help to achieve that anyway, none more so than the counselling sessions. Note: beware the very slow opening, full of Americanisms that are hard to follow; once the couples all arrive at the 'couples' retreat' the action soon hots up!

So bad I was half-expecting a guest appearance from Adam Sandler. Avoid - you have been warned...

Good idea for a movie and has its good moments. Slow to get going and there is a risk of getting bored before it's really started.

Last half hour is good fun though and as a whole the movie is fun to watch.

This film was surprisingly enjoyable. It completely followed the usual layout of a hollywood romcom but the script was very well written and the film had me smiling all the way through. I don't normally like films like this but Couples Retreat was actually quite good.

Got fed up of waiting to rent this, so bought it for 99p off eBay.

Easy sunday night watching - Peter Serafinowicz, the show stealer.