The Five-Year Engagement

  • 2012


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Average Rating 4.6/5
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3.8
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
0.0
"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
0.0
"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
3.5
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 .. Austin Chronicle
3.8
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
0.0
"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
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
4.5
The film is often very funny, with more than its fare share of laugh out loud moments. Ign
3.8
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
2.0
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
3.0
Unlike the more audacious Bridesmaids, The Five Year Engagement is solid, but not ground breaking. Film Journal
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 .. Job Lo
3.5
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
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
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
Like most contemporary romantic comedies, The Five Year Engagement aims to have us leaving the theater feeling good. Slant Magazine
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
4.0
Another solid hit from Planet Apatow charming, funny and remarkably in tune with real life. Empire Online
3.0
Much like the doughnuts that Violet uses in a research experiment: stale and not good for you. Village Voice
3.1
Apatows movies have frequently been referred to as ribald, raunchy hilarity wrapped around a wonderfully sweet center. Reel Views
2.5
Its a funny visual, but the dialogue and situational humor dont measure up. Usa Today
2.5
Somewhere in all this is an insightful comic examination of the messiness and imperfection of relationships. Eric Ds Nider
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
3.8
The films balance of the cynical and the sweet is one of its more endearing qualities (The cast is its most). Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
Jason Segel is the ideal rom com star for women who find Woody Allen too macho. Chicago Reader
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
3.5
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
3.5
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
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
4.0
It may be uneven and silly, but the characters and the film itself completely win us over. Shadows On The Wall
4.0
Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segels latest collaboration offers a more relatable rom com scenario while generating laughs that should still satisfy Forg .. Hollywood Reporter
2.5
The Five Year Engagement is a modern romantic comedy with none of the traditional pleasures. News Day
5.0
The results are delightful, but there are moments during the comedy where you feel like youre experiencing their lives in real time. The Wrap
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
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 .. La Times
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
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
4.0
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
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
3.0
You dont have to be a marriage counselor to know that a five year engagement is too long. Az Central
4.0
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
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
2.5
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 .. Flick Filosopher
2.8
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
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
As a result, the humour is spontaneous, reflecting real life situations with their awkward pauses and often less than ideal outcomes. Urban Cine File
4.0
But The Five Year Engagement has all the formlessness with half the fun. Slate
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
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
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
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
5.0
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
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
3.0
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4.4
Segel and Blunt are enormously likable people on screen, armed with wide eyed charm and stealthy timing. Chicago Tribune
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
4.0
Not everyone will welcome the leisurely pace and meandering nature of the film, but it won me over completely. Blogs Indie Wire
3.0
Somewhere, buried in The Five Year Engagement, is a sparkling screwball comedy fighting against a turntable running on long play. Irish Times
3.2
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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 .. Coming Soon
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
2.5
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
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
3.8
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
3.8
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
3.2
Their film part comedy, part love story, part sight gags delivers a mixed bag of laughs and sentiment. Cleve Land
4.0
The Five Year Engagement has more big laughs than any comedy this year. Hollywood And Fine
4.2
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
3.8
Still, the script has enough wit and charm to overcome the shackles of its premise. Big Picture Big Sound
3.5
Segel and Stoller have plenty of good ideas but develop them fitfully. Ar Kansas Online
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
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
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
4.5
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
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
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
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
4.0
Theres probably a perfectly adequate 97 minute version to be made of this film. It would be a lesser picture. Dvd Talk
3.0
You almost wish the movie wold dare take a different stance and suggest an alternate ending. The Shiz Nit
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
3.8
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
2.5
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
4.0
Comedy should be generous, and Stoller and Segel are nothing if not generous filmmakers. Entertainment Time
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
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
4.0
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
3.5
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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
3.0
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
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
3.5
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
3.0
Underneath all the gags the film is grounded by a sweet romantic sentiment to keep the heart toasty. The Popcorn Junkie
2.5
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
2.5
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
3.0
Segel and Blunt prove that comedy with genuine sensitivity is much more rewarding than just immature dirty jokes. Fox News
3.8
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 ..
3.1
Still, the storys amiable enough, though shy on the big belly laughs that would get moviegoers really raving about it. Jackson Ville
2.5
But its no Bridesmaids, which was a smarter and far superior film in almost every way. Access Hollywood
2.8
But this movie lacks the courage of its convictions; it wants to be different sort of romantic comedy .. but not really. Deads
5.0
There is an extremely satisfying, mature, giddy happy ending, even while future issues remain unresolved. Easy Reader News



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