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Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau have buddied up again to land their relationship comedy "Couples Retreat" at the top of the weekend box office....

Sources tell me that Vince Vaughn's latest piece of dreck will make geniuses out of Universal's newly installed chairpeople. "Reason? Movies always do business after the studio heads get fired," one studio exec emailed me tonight.

This week at the movies brings only one wide release: Couples Retreat, starring Vince Vaughn and Kristen Bell in a comedy about a group of friends in marriage counseling in a tropical locale. What do the critics have to say? Couples Retreat contains some of the funniest actors in the business, and is set in a lush island paradise. Sounds like the recipe for a good time, right? Unfortunately, the critics say Couples Retreat is essentially a series of gags sorely in need of some over-arching comic discipline. Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell star as a couple whose relationship is...

Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Faizon Love star in Universal Pictures upcoming comedy Couples Retreat. Based on an original idea of Vaughns, the comedy follows four Midwestern couples who embark on a journey to a tropical island resort.