The Five-Year Engagement

  • 2012


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$ 24 Million
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Average Rating 3.2/5
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3.0
Given its title and premise, its poetically apt that The Five Year Engagement is a lovely, sweet, funny, romantic, and supremely worthwhile endeavor t .. Av Club
1.5
Its a perfect opportunity for Violet, and Tom doesnt want to see her skip that, so off into the wilds of Middle America they go. Den Of Geek
1.5
Its a perfect opportunity for Violet, and Tom doesnt want to see her skip that, so off into the wilds of Middle America they go. Den Of Geek
3.0
Yet once you go with its premise, the movie is an enjoyable grab bag of messy life circumstances. EW
4.0
Luckily for THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT, it has the perfect amount of all the right ingredients heart, irreverent humor, snark, wit, and happily ever aft .. Common Sense Media
2.5
Unfortunately, their new movie The Five Year Engagement contains none of those things but its still a far cry from advancing the romantic comedy genre .. We Got This Covered
2.0
At more than the two hours, The Five Year Engagement outstays its welcome like a drunken, microphone hogging best man. Time Out
2.0
But The Five Year Engagement lacks the freshness and spontaneity of both its puppetry predecessor and Segel and Stollers debut Forgetting Sarah Marsha .. Time Out
2.0
And exactly how many misfiring jokes about pantsless males can a film make Time Out
3.8
Like most contemporary romantic comedies, The Five Year Engagement aims to have us leaving the theater feeling good.
3.1
I liked The Five Year Engagement, and then I didnt, and then I did which seems just about right for a movie dedicated to examining how even the purest ..
1.5
The film drifts on to a wholly expected climax albeit a charmingly staged one as it manages to refocus on the real strength of the moviethe funny and .. Screen Daily
3.0
Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segels latest collaboration offers a more relatable rom com scenario while generating laughs that should still satisfy Forg .. The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
Stoller and Segel dont shy away from rational, relatable adults, which may be an unsexy selling point for a romantic comedy, but that attention to aut ..
4.5
The film is often very funny, with more than its fare share of laugh out loud moments. IGN
2.0
So again it proves with The Five Year Engagement, a dutifully raunchy, perilously overlong romantic comedy co written by its star Jason Segel and dire .. Telegraph
2.5
Movie review: The Five Year Engagement a missed opportunity The rom com has an engaging premise but promises more than it can deliver, ultimately gett ..
4.0
Another solid hit from Planet Apatow charming, funny and remarkably in tune with real life.
3.0
For all the funny jokes and well crafted characters and storylines that both surprise and satisfy, there are scores of comedians crammed into tiny sup .. Cinema Blend
4.0
Blunt has never been more relaxed, and she and Segel have a believably warm chemistry.Its also nice to find a romantic comedy with so much respect for .. Ny Daily News
4.5
The Five Year Engagement 9 10 Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) are the perfect couple.After getting engaged, Violet is offered a position at .. JoBlo
4.0
Its a bit over stuffed, but the narrative does come full circle and successfully balances charming comedy gags grounded in a memorable and contemporar .. Screen Rant
2.5
A lot more cutting would have made this movie much funnier but it should have taken place in the editing room, not on the screen. The Globe And Mail
3.8
The couple at the heart of this amiable, shambling romantic comedy a comedy laced with darker undertones, and sex and potty shtick start to feel like .. Philly
3.0
Nicholas Stoller directs this comedy that has some funny bits but unlike the raucous Bridesmaids is unable to sustain its humor. Spirituality And Practice
2.0
Much like the doughnuts that Violet uses in a research experiment: stale and not good for you. Village Voice
1.9
But any chef knows that the more you add to the soup, the more watered down you make it.Whatever spicy moments it manages, The Five Year Engagement is .. Rogers Movie Nation
3.1
Apatows movies have frequently been referred to as ribald, raunchy hilarity wrapped around a wonderfully sweet center. ReelViews
3.0
Jason Segel is the ideal rom com star for women who find Woody Allen too macho. Chicago Reader
3.8
The films balance of the cynical and the sweet is one of its more endearing qualities (The cast is its most). Mark Reviews Movies
2.5
Its a funny visual, but the dialogue and situational humor dont measure up. Usa Today
2.5
By the time the unusually dreary final stretch rolls around, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rises has squandered its few positive attributes to become a typica .. Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Somewhere in all this is an insightful comic examination of the messiness and imperfection of relationships. Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Theres just no economy of words or plotting or pacing here, and thats a shame. (Full Content Review for Parents also available) Screen It
3.1
The Five Year Engagement is like that, moving in fits and starts, but building a rooting interest in its characters that slaps a goofy smile on your f .. Rolling Stone
4.0
It may be uneven and silly, but the characters and the film itself completely win us over. Shadows On The Wall
0.5
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t .. Pop Matters
3.5
The results are delightful, but there are moments during the comedy where you feel like youre experiencing their lives in real time. The Wrap
3.0
The View London Review out ofstarsRunning time:minsDirected by Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), The Five Year Engagement stars Jason Sege .. View London
2.5
The Five Year Engagement is a modern romantic comedy with none of the traditional pleasures. News Day
3.0
Instead, what we have here is a wistful, somewhat overextended but occasionally sweet comedy about a couple that cant in more ways than one quite get .. Cs Monitor
3.8
This seems like another breakthrough for Blunt, who demonstrates an ample gift for physical comedy. She and Segel make an inspired team. New York Post
3.0
Unlike the more audacious Bridesmaids, The Five Year Engagement is solid, but not ground breaking. Film Journal International ..
3.0
You dont have to be a marriage counselor to know that a five year engagement is too long. Az Central
3.1
Its a fairly bizarre concept for a snuggle up flick, less a falling in love story than a trying to keep love alive story. Boston
2.5
Like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Five Year Engagement touches on themes of love found and lost in a serious way, and to its credit it does find som .. Boston
2.0
And theres precious little wit to any of it.Whats really being tested here is the old chestnut of movie wisdom that states undeniably likable leads an .. Mountain X
2.0
But The Five Year Engagement, with a script co written by Segel and Stoller, feels poignant and real in a way few raunch comedies are. Npr
3.8
Like a delectable meal that goes on too long, The Five Year Engagement continues past gratification to overindulgence.Its a very good movie. Star Tribune
1.5
Yup, theres another tedious rant coming your way about how Hollywood hates women.
3.0
But after a while, the central premise becomes exhausting, and the comedy feels too schematic and too long before it reaches its predictable coda. Emanuellevy
3.0
The reliably effervescent Emily Blunt brings a whole lot of charm to this post Bridesmaids romcom from producer Judd Apatow. Guardian
4.0
The Five Year Engagement isnt perfect, but its a commercial date movie with warmth, sweetness, charm and laughs, and some witty wedding scenes surely .. Guardian
2.0
This engenders smiles rather than laughs as it contrives to keep the two leads apart for 124 minutes, padding out the time with irrelevant characters .. Daily Mail
2.0
But The Five Year Engagement has all the formlessness with half the fun. Slate
3.0
Its a shame that one of the few decent rom coms in recent memory should lack enough comedy to balance out the unexpectedly truthful treatment of roman .. Flim List
3.5
As a result, the humour is spontaneous, reflecting real life situations with their awkward pauses and often less than ideal outcomes.
3.5
Susan Grangers review of The Five Year Engagement (Universal Pictures) Nicholas Stollers comedy revolves around what happens when a couples career cho .. Susang Ranger
2.5
It makes them much harder to root for.You wish one of them would just, you know, love the other one enough to suck it up and uproot themselves without .. Movies
2.5
This movie proves my theory that putting puppets in movies automatically makes them fantastic.Unfortunately, the accompanying (and more applicable) th .. Movies
4.0
Stoller and Segel can do routine scenes without squareness.They employ a consistent comic strategy: Tom and Violet are three dimensional characters, w .. New Yorker
4.5
It has the briskness, airiness, clarity, and derisive fury of a last film; Bresson made it at the age of eighty two, and its one of the cinemas most g .. New Yorker
4.0
Amazingly, The Five Year Engagement turns out to be one of the best examples of the genre in recent years, a romantic comedy that, like its leading la .. Express
4.4
Segel and Blunt are enormously likable people on screen, armed with wide eyed charm and stealthy timing. Chicago Tribune
3.0
The movie also relies on a lot of the same, tired genre cliches despite its attempts to shake up the formula, and it drags on for so long that it prac .. Bullz-Eye
4.5
eels about five years long. With an almost total lack of... conflict, it feels like its spinning its narrative wheels... There simply never seems to b .. Flickfilosopher
3.0
Somewhere, buried in The Five Year Engagement, is a sparkling screwball comedy fighting against a turntable running on long play. The Irish Times
5.0
Not everyone will welcome the leisurely pace and meandering nature of the film, but it won me over completely. Blogs Indie Wire
3.5
Its easy to forgive that cop out, because Tom and Violet are two people you want to see together: Theyre funny and smart and genuinely caring, not jus .. Las Vegas Weekly
3.0
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3.5
Blunt shines once again in this sweet love story,...a film of surprising depth, getting into the nitty gritty of a relationship that seems realistic, .. Tony Medley
3.1
Segel and Stoller have a bad habit of over explaining themselves, whether it be a dramatic beat or a comedic one. Movie Freak
3.0
The Five Year Engagement doesnt always work some of the supporting characters storylines feel clipped, and the improvised bits could afford to be tigh .. Detroit News
3.8
For the amount of characters and ideas and subplots that are squeezed into two hours, Stoller does a fine job finessing it into a movie that offers ju ..
3.0
Benedict Cumberbatch Wants You To Know He *Is* The Motherf*cking Grinch The Grinch star takes Mike Ryan through the final scenes of Avengers: Infinity .. Hit Fix
3.8
Finding a romantic comedy that strives for this sort of insight is refreshing. Aisle Seat
3.8
It is, though, often funny in an understated (if still raunchy) way.And its very nicely acted. Nj
2.0
Segels brand of unhinged mania is still funny. Rival couple Chris Pratt and Alison Brie are even funnier. And the dramatic stuff rings true. E Online
2.0
The Five Year Engagement is a fun, intelligent 100 minute rom com trapped in a two hour rough cut. Film School Rejects
2.5
Theres a wonderful 90 minute romantic comedy here, but because Judd Apatow is one of the producers, it lumbers along for 124 minutes. Maki At The Movies
3.0
Splashes of slapstick, a dash of vulgar humor, generous helpings of uncomfortable awkwardness, and a pinch of melodrama season the film.
2.5
Emily Blunt and Jason Segal in The Five Year Engagement.The movie is titled, The Five Year Engagement, which tells you how long it takes for the chara .. Three Movie Buffs
3.8
The unhappy tension felt during a party thats supposed to be joyous fires a precise, anguished strike to the heart.Regardless, nobody will miss realit .. Red Eye Chicago
3.1
At best, The Five Year Engagement is very well played by its leads and supporting characters. You cant go wrong with Segel, Blunt, Pratt and Brie, the .. Stl Today
2.0
Their film part comedy, part love story, part sight gags delivers a mixed bag of laughs and sentiment. Cleve Land
2.5
What began as an extremely un movie ish romantic comedy devolves into a completely manufactured farce. Screen Crush
3.0
Its a long days journey into relationship insight, but with fun on the way. Ft
3.8
Its a humorous moment, but also a touching one for ringing so true.Stoller and Segel know precisely what its like to be helplessly in love, even amids .. Dustin Put Man
3.5
Segel and Stoller have plenty of good ideas but develop them fitfully. Ar Kansas Online
3.5
The Five Year Engagement has more big laughs than any comedy this year. Hollywood And Fine
3.0
While a bit unwieldy, The Five Year Engagement is a winningly silly effort to dissect pre wedding tension and longtime commitment coziness, doing a ca .. Brian Or Ndorf
1.5
Youd be challenged to laugh once during a two hour plus slog in which much of the intended hilarity resides in frequent utterances of the F bomb, veni .. Patriot Ledger
3.8
Still, the script has enough wit and charm to overcome the shackles of its premise. Big Picture Big Sound
4.4
1 of 3 View Caption In this film image released by Universal Pictures, Jason Segel is shown in a scene from The Five Year Engagement. Sltrib
4.5
Yet, The Five Year Engagement offers a more thoughtful and reflective comedy that still manages to never lose its humorous touch.
3.8
Both funny and romantic, The Five Year Engagement runs a good 20 minutes longer than it should, but the winning on screen chemistry between Segel and .. Js Online
3.0
The Five Year Engagement flirts with ideas both substantive and radical, and is likely in its own easy, shambling way to satisfy a certain baseline en .. Shockya
2.0
The Five Year Engagement sets its sights lower and aims for more broadly comic, conventionally satisfying payoffs, and it works up to a point, with li .. Film Comment
3.0
You almost wish the movie wold dare take a different stance and suggest an alternate ending. The Shiz Nit
3.8
But while youll laugh, and laugh a lot, the beauty of a film like The Five Year Engagement is that it manages to be so engaging while portraying emoti .. Crave Online
4.0
Comedy and drama co exist in a marriage that is itself rather special; one rarely ends up cancelling out the other. What Culture
3.1
If youre looking for cheap sentiment throughout, see The Lucky One instead. Mercury News
4.0
What works: This is an emotionally honest film that succeeds largely due to its casting, from the leads Jason Segel and Emily Blunt to its raft of pit .. No La
3.8
What further sets The Five Year Engagement apart from other formulaic romantic comedies is that it takes time to let its characters breathe. Scene Stealers
3.0
Theres probably a perfectly adequate 97 minute version to be made of this film. It would be a lesser picture. Dvd Talk
4.5
The Five Year Engagement seems at times to have taken its title literally its way too long. But though the pace sometimes drags, Blunt and Segal are a .. What So
4.0
The Five Year Engagement The big screen blend of sweet sentiment and go for broke rauncha comedic combination most closely associated with Judd Apatow .. reason
1.5
Segel and Blunt are so talented that its hard not to find a little joy in some moments, but this is a film in serious need of a little editing and one .. Bowling Green Daily News
3.5
The lead performers help sell the transition from comedy to drama and back again. Streaming Quickflix
3.5
Thats the short and long of it for the charming, sometimes bumbling hero of this one of a kind thriller. Wsj
3.1
Pauline Kael said of the Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers pairing, He gave her class and she gave him sex. Blunt provides both the class AND the sex, but Se .. Clclt
4.5
Shambling, attractively mussed Ruffalo ignores him and steals every scene. Ny Mag
4.0
The writing, for which Segel takes a co credit with Nicholas Stoller, is consistently funny, varying from relationship based humour to sight gags and .. Fan The Fire Magazine
3.5
Comedy should be generous, and Stoller and Segel are nothing if not generous filmmakers. Entertainment Time
1.0
A movie about a five year engagement should not seem like you were in the theater the entire five years. Tri City Herald
3.8
Nicholas Stollers inventive, funny, and sometimes subversive romantic comedy wont revive that benighted genre, but it does offer hope. Boston Phoenix
4.5
The Five Year Engagement is sweet without being saccharine and real without being gloomy.Its a feel good film, and while it lags slightly in the middl .. Cairo 360
1.0
Theres a distinct formula and literally every element proposals, engagements, bucks parties, hens celebrations, and the wedding proper have all been d .. Graffiti With Punctuation
4.5
Juliet Stevenson is one of the most gifted actresses youll ever see and her naturalistic fluency on stage is more than a joy to watch, its a mystery, .. Spectator
4.5
Cameos from Molly Shannon, Tim Heidecker and hilarious up and comer Kumail Nanjiani certainly dont hurt either. Battleship Pretension
2.0
From career moves and cold feet to the psychology of doughnuts, this Judd Apatow production addresses grown up issues with a rudely healthy sense of h .. Sky
4.5
But more than that, its an unusually perceptive examination of modern relationships. The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
4.5
She has a natural charisma about her; shes effective while seeming effortless. Mac Guff
3.8
Engagements sense of humor is along the same lines as it was in Sarah Marshall: often crude but clever and only occasionally gross. Miami
3.5
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3.0
Sometimes it feels like a silly comedy and then its a drama and then it is absurd, then light hearted.It is so all over the place. Schmoes Know
3.0
Blunt & Segel make a good team, and the jokes, especially in the first third of the film, are solid. But the movie runs too long, stretching its contr .. Metro Times
3.0
Its not one that youd need to see again and again, but it does leave a very sweet taste in the mouth. Little White Lies
4.5
This is the smartest, most likable such film Ive seen in years, even if you might think it does need to have its mouth washed out with soap. MSN Movies
2.6
Its enough to make the movie enjoyable even if it misses out on what it really wants to be by crashing into cliches. Flixist
3.0
Its intriguing to see Segal reconsidering the implications of Lena Dunham style sex without intimacy era on the romantic as well as the comic side. Movie Mom
3.5
Sometimes, watching it, you wish itd be a little less grown up and a little more flexible in terms of what works as a comedy. Movie Line
1.0
What happens after that romantic rooftop marriage proposal that would ordinarily end a rom com Sadly the answer seems to be drab and not terribly inte .. Standard Net Au
3.0
More dark comedy than rom com, perhaps a little too honest, like someone who is telling you something funny but then overshares just a little too much .. The Mercury
3.0
Underneath all the gags the film is grounded by a sweet romantic sentiment to keep the heart toasty. The Popcorn Junkie
2.0
Like life, The Five Year Engagement can be messy and irrational. The shame is that the film doesnt need to be those things quite to the degrees that t .. Reel Times: Reflections on ..
2.0
All the goodwill that the lead actors bring to the table cant overcome the sheer ordeal of watching this wan story play itself out. Blog Oregonlive
3.0
I will say this about the story, it stays mostly clear of the cliches that plague most romantic comedies. Blogs Houston Press
3.0
Segel and Blunt prove that comedy with genuine sensitivity is much more rewarding than just immature dirty jokes. Fox News
2.0
Its a thankless task, but somebody has to do it.Wait, no, scratch that, lets ditch this ridiculous cliche once and for all. Ultra Culture
4.5
This comedy of romantic manners is bloated, soft in the middle and belted with a too skinny storyline, but, hey, its got enough belly laughs to get by .. Ma Cleans
3.0
In conclusion its a cute story with some originality, but a little on the long side. Jo Reviews
3.8
Often funny, good in dramatic moments, but lacking consistently tight control of pace and scenes. Ohio
1.3
A series of funny scenes and funny lines, but it doesnt all add up to a good, funny, solid, romantic movie.
3.1
Still, the storys amiable enough, though shy on the big belly laughs that would get moviegoers really raving about it. Jackson Ville
2.0
Your Sisters Sister was shot quickly and with an often improvised script, but it has an honesty which makes you care about the characters fates.
3.0
UNIVERSAL PICTURES/GLEN WILSON Emily Blunt, left, and Jason Segel are shown in a scene from The Five Year Engagement. Maki At The Movies Blogspo ..
2.5
But its no Bridesmaids, which was a smarter and far superior film in almost every way. Access Hollywood
2.0
But this movie lacks the courage of its convictions; it wants to be different sort of romantic comedy .. but not really. Deads
2.5
A great beginning and a very strong ending, but in between is a middle section that isnt very funny and seems to drag on forever. Technology Tell
2.5
In a nod to Segels chef Tom, the film engages in the pasta theory of filmmaking: Throw enough starch against the wall, and somethings bound to stick. ..
4.0
There is an extremely satisfying, mature, giddy happy ending, even while future issues remain unresolved. Easy Reader News
4.5
The Five Year Engagement feels like a step down from Segel and Stollers previous films together, but theres enough sentimentality and comedic charm he .. Deep Focus Review
2.0
As endearing as Segel and Blunt are, The Five Year Engagement feels ... five years of your life spent waiting for the inevitable, with not as many lau .. Real.com
3.8
Sometimes youll fight the urge to pull out your phone to check the time, and others youll laugh so hard youll embarrass yourself.
4.5
Stoller has created a refreshing film, which offers a realistic edge in an otherwise clichd genre.
3.8
The movie is a precision instrument with no parts jammed together, just everything smooth and functioning.



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