Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau are great friends. This is very apparent as they have now starred in five films together since their original collaboration Swingers back in 1996 and its unintentional sequel Made. Along the way they have made a pretty good friendship with little Ralphie Parker himself (A Christmas Story), Peter Billingsley. He has appeared with them both in the boring-except-when-Vaughn-and-Favreau-are-on-screen-together The Break-Up; joined them in last year’s Four Christmases, and had small roles in Favreau’s own Elf and Iron Man. Now the trio bring us Couples Retreat.

When Vaughn and Favreau are on-screen together their rantings usually get heated and tense, but all for the sake of comedy. The verbal diarrhea these two spew upon an audience in just a matter of minutes is usually hilarious if you can catch half of what either is saying between breaths.

Couples Retreat stars Vaughn as Dave, happily married to Ronnie (Malin Akerman). They have two youngsters; the youngest of whom seems to take particular love in making his parents life miserable in public by using toilet displays in home improvement stores.

Joey (Favreau) is married to high school sweetheart Lucy (Kristin Davis) whom he knocked up before graduation. They are trying to make it through each day, arguing over who was supposed to mail the tuition check, while trying to talk sense into their now-grown daughter, who just wants to leave the house looking like an escort for hire.

Shane (Faizon Love) is their one-liner dropping newly divorced friend who has just started a “relationship” with a 20-year-old named Trudy (Kali Hawk). She likes to call him “Daddy” in public which is ultra creepy as he’s easily twice her age.

While at a birthday party for one of Dave and Ronnie’s kids, the group of friends is talked into attending a power point presentation given by their friends Jason (Jason Bateman) and Cynthia (Kristen Bell), The couple has been trying to conceive a child for years, which has put such a strain on their relationship, they are now considering divorce. But they would like to give it one last try, and ask the motley crew to join them for a week-long getaway at Eden Resort.

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