The Five-Year Engagement Film Review

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The Five-Year Engagement (Universal Pictures) 2 hrs. 4 mins. Starring: Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, Mimi Kennedy, Lauren Weedman, Chris Parnell, Mindy Kaling, Brian Posehn Directed by: Nicholas Stoller MPAA Rating: R Genre: Romantic comedy Critic’s Rating: ** stars (out of 4 stars) There seems to be the continual explosion of Hollywood romantic comedies surging on the scene that specifically devotes itself to the trappings of marital bliss. Last year’s heralded Bridesmaids lit a fire under the “wacky wedding woes” genre so naturally Tinsel Town wants to further fan the flames in hopes sharing the wealth with the marriage mayhem theme. Let’s not kid ourselves though…we were long bombarded by rom-com wedding-oriented chucklers that ranged from Meet the Parents to The Wedding Date to The Wedding Planner. It is safe to say that the conveyor belt-made nuptials narratives are not going to vanish anytime soon. The Forgetting Sarah Marshall masterminds writer-director Nicholas Stoller and writer-star Jason Segel (from TV’s “How I Met Your Mother”) put their creative juices together to collaborate on The Five-Year Engagement, a twist to the usual wedding jitters comical scenario. Although occasionally funny with its high-minded spry moments, The Five-Year Engagement is a prolonged pratfall of uneven Judd Apatow-inspired naughtiness that tediously spreads itself thin (after all, Apatow is the producer of the long-winded Engagement). The potential ground for divorce regarding the off-kilter sentimentality of The Five-Year Engagement is the lengthy running time. The movie is too garrulous for its own good. The stretched-out material does not justify the two-hour marathon of hit-or-miss wedding wittiness. Stroller should have consulted his film editor and trimmed Engagement making its pacing more crisp and concise. The movie certainly

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