The Five-Year Engagement.

You snooze, you lose...Emily Blunt and Jason Segel..The Five-Year Engagement.

This ridiculously overlong romantic comedy is a massive letdown. "From the producer of Bridesmaids" is plastered across the top of the poster, one of the reasons I saw this film is because I loved Bridesmaids so much, sadly I was sorely misled. The Five-Year Engagement sees what looks like an odd couple, Emily Blunt and Jason Segel put together. Segel is Tom, a sous chef at an up-market restaurant in San Francisco while Blunt is Violet, a PhD graduate in psychology on the verge of getting a post-doctorate. The pair fall deeply in love at a New Years' Eve party where she is Princess Diana and he is 'Super-Bunny.' When Violet gets accepted to do the post-doctorate, things go up for her and things go down for him. The pair postpone the wedding and head for Michigan where Violet is going to be working. The thing this film looks at is that men can also be the ones who have to sit around and do nothing when woman go out and work. The usual stereotype is that woman sit around, as Violet says she doesn't want to sit around and cook and clean and make apple pies and tend to babies. Tom gets depressed and ends up hunting deer and growing side-burns. The pair are visited by Violet's sister, Suzie (Alison Brie) and Suzie's husband, Tom's idiotic friend, Alex (Chris Pratt.) Rhys Ifans has an unsatisfying role as Winton Childs, a professor at the university, Violet works for and who has a soft side for Violet. It drags on far too long and you get rather fidgety. The chemistry between Jason Segel and Emily Blunt works somehow and it's an intelligent romcom, something that only comes around once in a blue moon.


3/5