The mush of Couples Retreat was predictable. When Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn collaborated on Swingers 14 years ago, they were young, edgy and ready to rumble. Now they are softer, too successful and drowning in the pool of sentimentality.

Couples Retreat is a romantic comedy sending four troubled Chicago couples to a gorgeous South Seas retreat on a half-price vacation. The hitch is that they have to endure a couples counselling program run by mad social scientist Jean Reno.

What we endure is a wildly uneven movie, lurching from punch lines to pathos to putrid comic set-ups to sappy stuff about the work that relationships require. Favreau and Vaughn, who co-wrote with Dana Fox, play two of the guys, along with Jason Bateman and Faizon Love. Femme talent includes Malin Akerman, Kristin Bell and Kristin Davis. While they have their moments, they all could do better than this.

Couples Retreat debuts on DVD and Blu-ray in a rare Friday release, Canada only. The U.S. doesn’t get it until Tuesday.

The DVD and Blu-ray share most routine extras, including gag reel, extended therapy sessions and the joys and/or challenges of filming in remote Bora Bora. Blu-ray adds two extra deleted scenes, offers the commentary as picture-in-picture and provides a digital copy for mobile devices. The best bits among extras involve Vaughn, who is both sincere and sweet. (Source)