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Apr 27, 2012 · Movie Review - 'The Five-Year Engagement' - A Relationship Going Nowhere, But Endearingly So Jason Segel and Emily Blunt play a couple who postpone their wedding when career pressures present ...
Apr 27, 2012 · Despite a few hiccups, it's easy to recommend The Five-Year Engagement - especially since the film's shortcomings don't detract all that much for the overall experience. It's a bit over-stuffed, but the narrative does come full-circle and successfully balances charming comedy gags grounded in a memorable and contemporary love story.
- Ben Kendrick
Apatow, of course, has always prized touches of sweetness amidst overwhelming raunch, but The Five-Year Engagement is really more the other way around - touches of raunch amidst overwhelming sweetness and heart. The film opens on the one-year anniversary of the first date of Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt), an anniversary that we quickly learn will also be the night when Tom and ...
Apr 25, 2012 · Writer/actor Jason Segel and writer/director Nicholas Stoller have been working with each other for years now, both cementing their membership in Judd Apatow's comedic entourage on "Undeclared". It was their first cinematic collaboration—Forgetting Sarah Marshall—however, that put them on the map as a creative team worth keeping in the recesses of your mind for light
Apr 30, 2012 · The Five Year Engagement has its charms, but not enough of them. US Correspondent Ron Hogan thinks that a comedy shouldn’t go for longer than two hours or go longer than 30 minutes without a joke.
Apr 26, 2012 · THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Review. The Cult of Judd Apatow needs to learn that sometimes you have to cut a scene even if it's funny. The refusal to learn this lesson has resulted in movies where ...
Jun 23, 2012 · rating: 4. With his directorial offerings to date Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek Nicholas Stoller has managed to effortlessly merge larger-than-life premises and outrageous ...
