Jason [Jason Bateman] and Cynthia [Kristen Bell] are considering ending their marriage, but they want to give it one last chance.  Their solution is to go to Eden, a resort for couples, and drag their friends: Dave [Vince Vaughn] and Ronnie [Malin Akerman], Joey [Jon Favreau] and Lucy [Kristin Davis] and Shane [Faizon Love] and Trudy [Kali Hawk] along for the ride to what can only be described as relationship hell.

The film sticks to a more or less understandable comedic formula.  Instead of trying to make a joke just try to make a ridiculous moment and hope it turns out funny.  This movie felt less like a comedic film and more like a bad ninety-minute episode of Friends or something.  Vince Vaughn does exactly what you expect of him, he over acts in every moment trying to be the guy that is completely over-exacerbated due to the scenario he’s placed in and thinks that you don’t need to mess with a good thing when it isn’t all that good and something needs to be done.  He attempts to make it all about this throwaway fact, like the ‘shark attack’, rather than dealing with the issue at hand, that his marriage is not as good as he thinks it is.  Then he acts like a complete child and talks really fast while thinking that he’s being funny.

The rest of the characters serve no purpose other than to be lame punch lines in Dave’s story of a crazy week in a paradise of hell for relationships.  Jason and Cynthia represent the couple that takes everything way too seriously and make love a job rather than a feeling that you share.  Joey and Lucy are the couple that are unhappy and can’t stand each other and screw around but deep down still love each other and don’t want to admit it.  Shane and Trudy is really a fleeting relationship for Shane who is trying to get over his recent divorce and wants to remember what it is for you to be in a fun but will soon find out that there’s a reason why he did that then and not now.  All of these characters serve absolutely no purpose in the movie other than to take a simple idea and confuse it with way too many romcom threads to tie up neatly when we’re ready to get our obligatory happy ending.

The film also sports a slew of minor characters like: Marcel [Jean Reno] the overly Zen couples therapist, Sctanley [Peter Serafinowicz] the annoying hotel coordinator and Salvadore [Carlos Ponce] the sexy yoga instructor who doesn’t know how to act around husbands and wives.  The only thing is that most of these characters, like the couples, felt completely forced and useless.  Each get their own moments that you didn’t need and aren’t funny.  Salvadore makes sure to force his groin as deep as possible into each couples’ significant other – without worrying about gender – in order to make us feel as awkward as possible but instead of making us laugh all it really did was make us feel exactly what we felt like before that this island is complete hell.  Sctanley is another bad character, but I will decide to allow this one since it does give us one fun scene, a rare thing in this movie, which involves this character and guitar hero which was pretty fun to watch and even funnier what happens after the duel is over.

In the end this a movie that you probably don’t want to take a date to since all it will do is ruin it by not only making her hate you for making her watch a bad movie but will make her ask Barney’s five worded bombshell of a question: “Where is this relationship going?” Send all of your depressing hate mail to Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau.  They sell you the island with the phrase “it’s like Disneyland for adults” well I want to stay a child and keep the normal Disneyland.

IMDB says 5.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 12%

I say 3.0/10