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107 min • Comedy • Rated PG-13
Couples Retreat

Intelligence is insulted at every turn in this date movie from former "swingers" Vince Vaughn and John Favreau, who now write themselves roles as middle-aged men grown flabby in both body and spirit. Vaughn also produces and, as the film's top-lined star, plays the only happily married man in this story's quartet of couples, who attend a weeklong couples retreat. Random sequences follow in succession: a badly choreographed shark attack, a massage that requires a self-serve happy ending, ridiculous therapy sessions, a Fabio look-alike yoga instructor who provides the requisite homophobic sight gags, and a renegade excursion to the singles sides of the resort where, magically, everything resolves. Logic and credibility are defied at almost every opportunity. Even so, some of this might have worked if the script was, say, funny. The scenery looks good enough to be a screensaver, as one of the characters exclaims, and of course, the background offers an endless array of scantily clad hardbodies. Reviewed by MB.

 

Couples Retreat
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Century Cinemas Del Monte Center
1700 Del Monte Center, Monterey
373-8051
Golden State Theater
417 Alvarado St., Monterey
372-4555
Maya Cinemas
153 Main St., Salinas
757-Maya
A Christmas Carol (3D) (2009)
10:15am; 12:20; 2:30; 4:30; 6:55
A Christmas Carol (2009)
11:10am; 1:20; 3:30; 5:40; 7:50; 10:05
The Blind Side
12:15; 3:15; 6:15; 9:15
Michael Jackson's This is It
10:20am
2012
10:10am; 10:50am; 11:55am; 1:35; 2:00; 3:20; 5:05; 5:50; 7:05; 8:45; 9:20; 10:30
Planet 51
10:30am; 11:15am; 12:45; 1:30; 3:05; 3:50; 5:15; 6:05; 7:30; 8:10; 9:45
Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day
7:20; 10:20
The Men Who Stare at Goats
12:10; 2:20; 4:50
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
10:00am; 10:45am; Noon; 1:00; 1:45; 3:00; 4:00; 4:45; 6:00; 7:00; 7:45; 9:00; 10:00; 10:35
The Fourth Kind
10:10pm
Northridge Cinemas
350 Northridge Shopping Center, Salinas
449-4168
A Christmas Carol (3D) (2009)
11:50am; 2:20; 4:50; 7:20
A Christmas Carol (2009)
12;45; 3:20; 5:45
Michael Jackson's This is It
6:35; 9:15
Paranormal Activity
8:15; 10:35
2012
11:40am; 12:50; 2:00; 5:30; 6:45; 7:55; 9:00
Astro Boy
11:35am; 1:55; 4:15
The Fourth Kind
Noon; 2:35; 5:00; 7:35
The Blind Side
11:25am; 1:00; 2:25; 4:00; 8:25; 10:00
Planet 51
11:45am; 12:55; 2:15; 3:25; 7:15; 8:20; 9:45; 10:45
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
11:30am; 12:30; 1:30; 4:30; 5:30; 6:30; 7:30; 10:30
Osio Cinemas
350 Alvarado St., Monterey
644-8171
New York, I Love You
12:20; 2:40; 5:00; 7:30; 9:50
Paranormal Activity
12:15; 2:15; 4:30; 7:00; 9:15
An Education
12:30; 2:45; 5;00; 7:15; 9:30
Amelia
Noon; 2:25; 4:50; 7:15; 9:40
A Serious Man
Noon; 2:20; 4:40; 7:00; 9:20
Coco Before Chanel
12:10; 2:35; 5:00; 7:25; 9:45
Cannery Row IMAX Theatre
640 Wave St., Monterey
372-4629
Sharks (3D)
11:00am; 2:00; 5:00
The Polar Express (IMAX)
Noon; 3:00; 6:00
Star Trek (IMAX)
8:00
Lighthouse Cinemas
525 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove
643-1333
Bright Star
10:20am (Sat and Sun only); 3:10; 8:00
Michael Jackson's This is It
12:45; 5:40; 10:30 (Sat and Sun only)
The Men Who Stare at Goats
9:45am (Sat and Sun only); 11:45am (Sat and Sun only); 1:45 (except Fri); 3:45 (except Fri); 5:45 (except Fri); 7:45; 9:45 (Fri and Sat only)
The Blind Side
11:30am (Sat and Sun only); 2:10; 4:50; 7:30; 10:15 (Fri and Sat only)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
10:30am (Sat and Sun only); 1:15; 4:15; 7:00; 10:00 (Fri and Sat only)

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