Ever wish you could break away from the stress of life? “Wanderlust” painfully attempts to show a couple’s escape attempt that lands them in a hippiesville: a place where only a select few of us could survive.

George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) are a rather boring couple until their life takes a turn south when the company George works for goes under and HBO decides not to develop Linda’s testicular cancer penguin movie. George and Linda can’t afford their New York apartment and move in with George’s brother in Atlanta. This arrangement does not last long and George and Linda head back on the road. They end up wandering into Elysium, a commune filled with: characters: including an old man, a crazy woman and a wine-making nudist novelist, who is my personal favorite character even though you see him naked far too many times. Elysium residents share everything, and life seems perfect without worries, troubles or doors. George loves this life at first and Linda of course hates it. Tension follows as the couple’s relationship is tested: yawn!

“Wanderlust” tries to capture some of the offbeat comedic timing and whimsy of “I Love You, Man” and “Role Models” by using the same cast with the addition of Jennifer Aniston and Alan Alda. Oh Hawkeye, Alda has not been funny since he quit operating! Unfortunately “Wanderlust” never seems to take off and spends too much time on psychedelic drugs. Yes, the movie has some laughs, as Rudd once again pulls off his sarcastic cynic personality and Aniston continues to use her charm, but many of the jokes were retreads and felt like the actors knew they were beating a dead horse.

Just like Rudd’s previous movies, “Wanderlust” proselytizes about specific morals. In “Wanderlust,” we see how money will not buy happiness (or as Alan Alda says, “Money will buy nothing . . .  NOTHING!”) and that in life, you need to do what is best for you. In this case, waiting until “Wanderlust” came out on DVD would have been the best for me.