Couples Retreat Books Autumnal Laughs
This entry was posted on 6/30/2009 1:35 PM and is filed under Trailer Watch.
The trailer for Peter Billingsley's directorial debut,
Couples Retreat (Universal, October 9), is
online just now via Apple, and looks like a good bet to wrangle the lion's share of fall comedy dollars. Notwithstanding the domestic underperformance of
The Heartbreak Kid,
exotic-set laffers that splurge a bit with scenery and setting have obviously worked out well recently, from
Tropic Thunder to
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and
Couples Retreat has a gorgeous, crystal-clear backdrop — the sort that causes women to start nudging their boyfriends and husbands to call travel agents — to go with
a solid, hell-in-heaven conceit that allows for plenty of good-time opposites-of-the-sexes friction.
Malin Akerman's auburn dye job will help hold at bay awkward memories of
Watchmen emoting, and the rest of the cast (
Kristen Bell, writer-actor Jon Favreau, Kristin Davis, Faizon Love, Kali Hawk, Vince Vaughn and
Jason Bateman, clockwise from top left) shows
no evidence of a weak link. Color me stoked, in moderate-to-high fashion. Vaughn isn't a huge international draw, but I don't see how this does under $140 million worldwide.
