A Tyler Perry movie for white folks. In its whiplash-inducing shifts from broad humor to mawkish sentiment, in its gleeful embrace of cultural stereotypes and in its focus on faltering relationships, Couples Retreat differs only from Perry’s output in that it stars Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Jon Favreau and Kristin Davis.

In retrospect, the massive affection – and box-office dollars – extended toward The Hangover should have been expected. The picture is brazenly funny without ever becoming too crass (at least for a Vegas-set comedy), while the plot’s puzzle structure demands repeat viewings. Four buddies wake up the morning after a bachelor party missing the bachelor,

George Clooney once again indulges his inner three stooges, starring in an espionage farce directed by his Good Night, and Good Luck screenwriter Grant Heslov. Like Clooney’s Leatherheads, this is a better idea than finished film. As an insecure reporter (Ewan McGregor) follows a supposedly psychic American spook (Clooney) into the insanity of the Iraq

Catharsis for a cubicle nation. Writer-director Mike Judge (MTV’s “Beavis and Butt-Head”) comically chronicles the banal details, petty frustrations and overall soul-crushing inanity of working for and with morons in a meaningless corporate job. In other words, he’s captured the existence of millions of Americans. By deflating the misplaced sense of self-importance that often comes

Even after getting Office Space out of his system, writer-director Mike Judge still had enough bitterness toward humanity to make this failed but fascinating comic epic. Set hundreds of years in the future, Idiocracy envisions an America full of drooling idiots thanks to centuries of television, celebrity worship, consumerism and junk food. (The top show,