The Five-Year Engagement Movie Download

3 / 10

Didn’t work for me
Even though I usually like Emily Blunt and I usually like Jason Segel, I really didn’t like The Five-Year Engagement. It felt like a funny “what if” premise Segel and Nicholas Stoller rattled off in the screenwriters’ room that failed to get fleshed out properly. “What if a couple gets engaged and then the wedding keeps getting pushed off?” I loved their collaboration of The Muppets (and have watched my well worn DVD copy countless times), and the remake of Gulliver’s Travels was very charming, but I just couldn’t get behind this movie.

A combination of extremely silly gags, ad libs that go on too long, slapstick, and “college humor” (jokes that are funny to one’s group of friends during a party but not as much the next morning) result in a rather long running time that beat the plot to death. How long can you stretch a delayed wedding, especially when the title gives away any suspense as to how long it will be delayed?

To each his own, so if you liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall (including the ridiculous vampire puppets) you’ll probably like this one. I prefer to see Emily in more serious roles, like Into the Woods and Looper. But I’ll still be willing to try anything she’s in with an open mind.Read More