The Five-Year Engagement

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The Five-Year Engagement

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The Five-Year Engagement

Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, Lauren Weedman

The director and writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the irreverent comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Sto... read more read more...ller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. -- (C) Universal

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  • FiLmCrAzY
    March 29, 2013
    FiLmCrAzY
    An average romcom , its a watchable comedy with a few laughs. Blunt is enjoyable, Siegel is average!
  • itsjustme2004
    December 8, 2012
    itsjustme2004
    Well..this movie sweet, and funny at times. Gangbusters beginning, and adorable ending, but unfortunately the middle lost the spark. Not at all a bad film, just could have been better.....
  • sanjurosamurai
    November 5, 2012
    sanjurosamurai
    this was a frustrating film. the actors were great and i loved seeing alison brie, but the first half of the film was so good, and the last half nearly unwatchable. the "falling out" sequence really derailed the entire film. it lost its humor and made the end awkward and less ... read moresatisfying. the first half made me laugh enough so as not to hate the film.
  • romy861
    September 29, 2012
    romy861
    Enjoyable. Some laugh out loud moments, but mostly just a nice movie about a relationship that has gone off track. Loved the cast, the sister was hilarious. Much better than I expected.
  • FrizzDrop
    September 19, 2012
    FrizzDrop
    There was very little comedy in this romantic foil from producer Judd Apatow and director Nicolas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek). Both have worked with Segel before, and both have tried to create humor out of the ordinary lives of real people. This was ... read moreobviously supposed to have a lot of heart and be grounded in real life and love, but I got very little of that from this. The characters are always very awkward and when the trouble begins, very early in the film, it makes the characters unlikable and especially exasperating. We don't get a good enough feel for the characters to have them descend into depression at the very start of the film. Most of the funny moments are sight gags, which are all thrown in from the trailer. It's in no way heartfelt, whimsical, or tragic. It's simply somber all the way through, with deranged characters and a lifeless plot. What should have happened is that they kept running into roadblocks, and there was a lot of interesting and calamitous results from it. Instead it's just a couple of people who can't seem to communicate with each other. The setting is maudlin, the supporting cast is a bunch of two dimensional wimps, and even when they try to be odd or strange it feels so forced and offensive that I can't get into it. It deals with a very serious issue, and when satirical or slapstick elements are introduced, it's tactless at best. I am actually really angry and bitter about my viewing experience, because through all the sad sack scenes, I feel nothing for the characters. They are ill defined, whining people who don't have much to make them special except their careers and their docile lives. It was so gun ho in the beginning; I had to laugh at some of it. Then it becomes dangerously sallow until a great montage scene with Segel and Dakota Johnson that simply blew me away. It didn't even possess the decency to end with a true happily ever after, though we sat through the entire two hour affair (far too long for a romantic comedy) for that pleasure. It drags throughout and has little staying power. Truly one of the bigger disappointments for me this year.
  • LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    September 12, 2012
    LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    "This is supposed to be exciting. It's your wedding - you only get a few of these!"

    One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.

    ... read moreury Schoolbook">REVIEW
    Tom (Jason Segel) is a chef in San Francisco and Violet (Emily Blunt) is some sort of post-graduate academic in psychology: they are deeply in love, and on the point of getting engaged. Tom's career is doing well and Emily is looking for a local teaching post at Berkeley. However, just as they get engaged, Emily is turned down locally but is instead offered a post in Michigan. So they move to Michigan where Tom gets a job making sandwiches and hates it, and Emily gets on famously - not least because Professor Winton Childs (Rhys Ifans) fancies her. Inevitably, this friction drives them apart, yet they still love each other.

    This film has two strengths. One is that all the characters are quite good fun to be with. Even Tom's co-chef Alex (Chris Pratt), the graceless, crass, indiscreet character, is quite a nice guy and doesn't come across with the obnoxiousness which would have been there in an early Jonah Hill performance, for instance. And the other strength is that the central section, where Tom and Violet are moving towards splitting up and then do so, is unhappy and real. As a comedy, this has a fair number of chuckles and enjoyable performances (with Alison Brie as Violet's sister Suzie having some very funny bits of business), and a reasonable heart to it. It is perhaps overlong.
  • LWOODS04
    September 12, 2012
    LWOODS04
    "I really did enjoy the movie. I love Emily's acting, whether it be comedies or drama's. Jason is always a fun character that makes me laugh. The movie dragged a bit for me. I thought it was about thirty minutes longer then it needed to be. But it's a charming rom-com that brings... read more the laughs and has likeable characters. If you enjoy romantic comedies you will definitely like this movie."
  • fb733768972
    September 9, 2012
    fb733768972
    This is a very, very smart romantic comedy, but the odd places that this film goes to, is very weird and seems a bit imperfect. Not to say this film is perfect (because it's not), but I highly enjoyed it when it didn't put me in a depressed mood. The film is also very clever at u... read moresing metaphors (such as "old donuts" and "cookies") to let the audience know the emotions of the characters. After a five year engagement, nothing is going right and the sadness of the film ensues. The second half of the film is not as good at the first half, but I believe the first half to be terrific, so take from that what you will. "The Five-Year Engagement" doesn't always know what it is trying to accomplish, but it's heart and soul is always present and I admire it very much for that alone!
  • axadntpron
    September 5, 2012
    axadntpron
    Somewhere deep down, deep deep down, there is a good film here. The first 30 minutes in fact had me very much hooked. It seemed to be a good honest look at a relationship and the sacrifices one must make in order to procure a better future. The actors seemed to be on point and th... read moree writing was rather touching. However, as the film went on it became clear that the editor had an aneurism during post-production.
    There were a countless number of scenes that left me wondering why they made it into the final cut. They did not help the viewer better understand the characters, they did not augment the overall narrative, or even at least serve up some decent laughs.
    Also, it seemed as though that there were 5 writers who were really interested in probing a relationship, but 1 who just wanted to focus on juvenile humor. I have nothing against juvenile humor, but in a film that seemed to want to offer so much more it just felt pointless.
    If they had fired that 1 writer and would have shaved off 50 minutes from the final cut, then I think we could have a fantastic film on our hands. Instead, fittingly for a romantic comedy, we are left only with what could have been.
  • danperry17
    August 30, 2012
    danperry17
    This was a film with a lot of big laughs, and another one of those honest Jason Segel bromantic comedies - rom-coms, only the men are allowed emotions - but it wasn't his best work. I think the ending was just too cheesy, especially given how much they'd gone through to get there... read more. Too long for what it is, but touching in places, and I'll say it again, downright hilarious by times. Mmmmeh.
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