What do Bora Bora, Couples Retreat and your user submitted “relationship advice” questions all have in common? Hilarity, that’s what!

Recently, IGN brother site AskMen.com invited it’s users to submit relationship questions for Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Faizon Love — stars of the upcoming Universal Pictures’ comedy Couples Retreat. The laugher follows four Midwestern couples who embark on a journey to a tropical island resort. While one of the couples is there to work on their marriage, the other three set out to jet ski, spa and enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon discover that participation in the resort’s couple’s therapy is not optional. Suddenly, their group-rate vacation comes at a price. What follows is a hilarious look at real world problems faced by all couples.

Yours truly was the IGN staffer tasked with participating in the press event, held at the same resort in which the film was set (on the beautiful French Polynesian island of Bora Bora). There I submitted myself to sorts of “grueling” activities to get your questions answered. Trust me. “How long should I wait to call a girl after I get her number?” is not an easy thing to ask with a stingray slithering up your chest. (You’re welcome Pat from Las Vegas!) Ah, the things I won’t do for IGN…

From IGN

They met as struggling actors in 1993 while working on Rudy and three years later, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau were ubiquitously known by their clever catch phrases and quotable lines from their low-budget hit Swingers.

The two have been inseparable ever since and have corroborated on a string of projects including Universal Pictures new comedy, Couples Retreat.

When Vaughn came up with the idea, he took the concept to his longtime friend and co-star “Favs” who loved the script about a group of friends all having martial problems. While some issues are more drastic than others with the couples, Vaughn said “the fun is in seeing all of their relationships put under a microscope.”

ComingSoon.net talked to Vaughn and his on-screen wife Malin Akerman about the film:

Q: When you guys are shooting in Bora Bora, can you catch any sports or is it that cut off from the rest of the world?
Vince Vaughn: It’s pretty cut off.
Malin Akerman: The internet was like, what, snail speed. If you got one email a day you could open it maybe, maybe. It’s kind of nice though.
Vaughn: All you could do was actually get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather. I’d be in the room, going, “I can’t believe I can’t get this game on.”

Q: It’s just like your character in the movie; he’s upset that he can’t see the playoffs?
Vaughn: Really, for me, if you follow a team and you’re in any of that fantasy stuff it makes it fun to watch a lot of the games. I enjoy doing that on Sundays for sure, and especially football and college football I like. But I was really thankful to be there. The place really is breathtaking, unbelievably so. It’s just amazing.
Akerman: It’s paradise.
Vaughn: I did a lot of stuff that I never would’ve done. I always think of this nowadays for all of us, it’s like you track our DNA from wherever we’re from and to think that you’d be in a place like that at some point there’s like no way ever that that would happen. Thanks to those boys out of Ohio with that flying machine.

Q: Were there things that guys went off and did together and then things that the girls went off and did together?
Akerman: In real life? Yes.
Vaughn: Fishing and sewing. That’s just an old expression. You go to a barbecue or something and the guys are always huddling and talking about sports or whatever, and you say, “Oh, you’re breaking off into fishing and sewing.”
Akerman: A lot of the girls sat by the people and had maybe a piña colada or two at the end of the day, sat at the restaurant. Kristen Bell is quite crafty. She’s like a little Martha Stewart and so she’d literally call me in my room and say, “Do want to come up for pudding?” I’d be like, “You have pudding?” She had everything. She had Scrabble. So it was a lot of board games and a lot of that kind of stuff. I don’t know what you guys did, what the boys did.
Vaughn: I spent a lot of time with my fiancée. We had a lot of fun which was good and then my sister was there and my nephew was there.
Akerman: We had that poker day.
Vaughn: We had a poker day which was really fun.
Akerman: It rained and so we could do nothing that day but poker.
Vaughn: The jet skis were really [fun] going and doing that. We went and swam with the sharks which was crazy. That was great to do. I never thought I’d do that. I was always afraid of that, anything in the ocean because I grew up around lakes. So we did that and that was good.

Q: What kind of sharks?
Akerman: Black Tip Sharks and Lemon Sharks. Lemon Sharks get up to nine feet which is bigger than me for sure. It’s a little bit nerve racking.
Vaughn: It’s just like anything, if you’re not used to something it seems intimidating and then once you do it you got really comfortable and we just swam around them.
Akerman: Yeah, after a while.
Vaughn: So it was really cool to go into the ocean like that, being able to dive. I’d never done stuff like that before. It was amazing.

Q: Was it your idea or Jon’s to do a comedy on an island?
Vaughn: It was my idea. Location, a nice location. I’m a slave to my craft. Have to go to Bora Bora. I think that it’s just in your life, whatever priorities you’re thinking about and I just thought that would be kind of fun, doing a movie, not just a romantic comedy that’s only about one relationship but about couples. It’s about your group of friends, right? We all have our friends. If you have a really close guy friend, you love it if the girls really get along and vice versa but I think if you have a good girlfriend you really want the guys to get along because you want to spend time with your friends. So, inevitably you end up with a group of couples that’ll come over for barbecues or you go do stuff together. The fun of that is that the guys do stuff and the girls do stuff. The guys can do something that they want to do during the day and the girls can go do what they want to do and then you come back together at night. It’s sort of about that group experience. There hadn’t been a movie that I’d seen any time recently that really dealt with couples. The challenge of writing it and editing was that you really wanted to give every couple its due. There’s really no B story. Every couple has a beginning, a middle and an end and a real arc. The final conclusion, if you will, when they’re all sort of coming together, that editing style came out of necessity because you didn’t want to just sit through linear conclusions of each scene although they were all well acted and well done. You actually sit through one and then you’re waiting to sit through the second and then third and so we had to find a way to sort of inter-cut that for that to happen. So I like the dynamic of how the guys are and you seek advice from your friends and how the girls are and then how the couples interact. I think that most people have all the qualities in them to smaller degrees. The funny thing is that everyone sort of sees themselves more as our couple but then you have friends who go, “No. You’re much more like that couple.” No one sees themselves as those other more extreme versions, but we all, sadly, or not sadly but just humanely more of those than we’d want to recognize.

Q: You and Jon were kind of in reversed roles from “Made” and “Swingers.” He was more of the party guy and you were more of the straight laced guy.
Vaughn: Yeah. I think I had done things recently, like I guess with “Crashers” that’s true. Although in “The Breakup” he’s more of the comic relief. He’s a bit more extreme. He wants to put a hit on that guy and he’s more of a kind of a street guy, a neighborhood guy. He’s more grounded than that, but it’s fun for me where Favreau was concerned. I met him as a comedic actor doing “Rudy” and Jon is so funny that it’s fun for me to let him come in and be an actor and give him a part where he can be funny and just sort of extreme because doing comedic roles, sit second and have the ability to get to do just the comedy versions. A lot of times the protagonist or the lead will the burden of staying grounded so that the audience can see the movie through their eyes but a character like Trent is allowed more freedom to be out there because he’s the comic relief. So for me it’s just fun to watch Favreau in that role as it was in “Breakup.” I thought that he was really great and hilarious and in this one, too, he’s so driven and ultimately so likable because Favs is very funny and also has a real warmth to him.

Q: Was there a lot of improv stuff left on the cutting room floor?
Akerman: Yes. I think there was so much improv that we could probably do a whole other film on the side, but it was great. That was sort of some of the fun parts where you have your character, your intention, your goal for the scene and then it was really cool working with these guys because of the improv. I always love it. I think it’s so much fun and so great. Although, once him and Jon start you’re like, “Holy sh*t.” You can tell that there’s some history there because you guys together are like husband and wife. You guys should’ve been a couple.

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At 31, Malin Akerman is not only getting noticed for being one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she is developing kudos for her acting.

Displaying an increasingly broad range, Akerman is not always recognisable on screen.

Donning an angular, long black wig as Silk Spectre II in Watchmen , she kicked butt with the boys; she was the sweet, home-town blonde ex-girlfriend Ryan Reynolds had left behind in Alaska in The Proposal ; she managed to keep up with Ben Stiller’s silliness in The Heartbreak Kid ; and now sporting deep red-dyed hair, she is married to Vince Vaughn in another comedy, Couples Retreat .

“They’re a couple from the mid-west and as a mother of two, my character’s all about her kids,” says the Swedish-born actress, who was raised in Toronto.

Dave (Vaughn) and Ronnie (Akerman) are the most solid couple among their group of friends.

When Jason (Jason Bateman) and Cynthia (Kristen Bell) announce that their marriage may be over, their friends rally around them and accompany them to a couples’ retreat – largely because it is essential to keep the cost down and because Bora Bora sounds like a neat place for a holiday.

Little do the three accompanying couples realise they must also partake in therapy sessions.

At one point, the burly Shane (Faizon Love), who is there with his new girlfriend, Trudy (Kali Hawk), is caught wearing no underwear, while Joey (Jon Favreau, the film’s screenwriter, together with Dana Fox and Vaughn, who also produces), is there with his wife, Lucy (Kristen Davis).

The film arose out of Vaughn and Favreau’s desire to revisit the relationship terrain of their breakthrough film, Swingers , when their lives were a lot less complicated than they are now.

Favreau is married with three children, while Vaughn, once a fixture of the gossip pages when dating Jennifer Aniston, is engaged to be married to Canadian real estate agent Kyla Weber. According to Akerman, Vaughn was the life of the party.

“Vince was phenomenal. He’s an amazing, amazing comedian. I couldn’t stop laughing. We had a really fun time.”

A huge fan of coupledom, Akerman has her hubbie along for the ride today. In fact, Roberto Zincone, an Italian drummer who sports numerous tattoos, is sitting in view of our interview. The pair had fallen for each other when they were the only singles playing in their band, the Petalstones.

Besides, Akerman admits that northern European women are attracted to Italian men.

“There’s just a passion about them,” she coos.

“They’re not afraid to say what they feel. And he’s a great cook, so it goes hand-in-hand.”

Akerman could never be married to an actor. “I’m not as strong a person as my husband is.

”I don’t know if I could watch my man kissing another woman.

”And I’ve seen actors on the set; I know what happens. If you are not in a happy relationship, it’s easy to veer off, especially if you have a love interest in the film and if they sort of lure you in.

”Even though it’s fake, a lot of people get into that and get attracted to it. If you find yourself in a relationship with an actor who is strong-willed, great. But you never know,” she adds ruefully.

Akerman could be forgiven for feeling attracted to Ryan Philippe, her co-star in the coming South African apartheid drama The Bang Bang Club . But then, he’s blond. And he has a fabulous Australian girlfriend, Abbie Cornish.

“Abbie’s so sweet; she’s such a cool girl, too,” Akerman enthuses.

“That’s the whole thing – as long as you know what you’re doing and it’s business and it’s work and that’s how you go about your life, then that’s fine. I always like to bring my husband on set and have him meet everyone.”

From the Brisbane Times

You can watch an interview with Malin during the promotion for “Couples Retreat” below… Its short, but Malin looks great!

MALIN ACKERMAN MAKES A DELIGHTFUL MARGARITA. God bless contrived interview settings because otherwise a scenario like this would be HIGHLY unlikely to take place. Yes, for a portion of the afternoon, the super sweet and lovely “Watchmen” star mixed some cocktails for Vince Vaughn and myself as we chatted about unwinding in Bora Bora, relationships (Swinger Vaughn is settling down at last) and comic book flicks. Vince and I also came to blows a few times as my passive/aggressive asides were latched on to by the big man. Nothing gets by Vince and he kept me on our toes. Stay tuned for our tense (in a good way!) chat.

From MTV

Warner Bros. will release the 5-disc DVD ($43.87) and 4-disc Blu-ray ($59.99) editions of Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut on November 3rd for a limited time — only 70,000 units being produced. The previously released Watchmen DVD’s & Blu-ray have already sold over 2.1 million copies.

WATCHMEN: The Ultimate Cut »
(Limited Edition Collectors Set)
THE COMPLETE STORY AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE SEEN! — A brand new cut of the film never seen in theaters includes Tales Of The Black Freighter woven into the director’s cut of the film.

Special features will include:
Disc 1:
• Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut film (215 mins)
• 2 All-New Audio Commentaries with Zack Snyder and illustrator Dave Gibbons
Disc 2:
Over 3 Hours of Special Features
• The Phenomenon: The Comic that Changed Comics (RT: 28:50) – Learn how the subversive, thematically complex, award winning comic that changed literature, inspired analytical debate, and won countless fans, was created.
• Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes (RT: 27:28) – Explores the fascination and psychology behind real-world vigilantes and where that behavior crosses over into actually donning the hood and behaving as superheroes.
• Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World (RT: 16:46) – The creators of Watchmen had a great understanding of engineering and science, allowing for plausible mechanics in their characters tools and the world itself. This featurette will guide the viewer through the filmmakers process of turning these technologies into cinematic reality.
• Watchmen: Video Journals
• My Chemical Romance video Desolation Row (RT: 3:16)
• Under The Hood (RT: 36:00) – A retrospective look on the biography by Hollis Mason – the original Nite Owl – and the world of those who stood for hooded justice.
• Story Within A Story: The Books of Watchmen (RT: 26:00) – Weave through the nuanced layers of detail to see how a comic-within-a comic acts as parallel commentary to the acclaimed work of Literature, Watchmen.
Disc 3:
• Digital Copy of the Theatrical Version
Disc 4 & 5:
• Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (325 mins)

The 4-disc Blu-ray edition will also have BD-Live features and the entire Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic will be on disc 4.

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