The Five-Year Engagement

Emily Blunt brings a much-needed dose of reality — and palpable chemistry with Jason Segel — to the Judd Apatow school of raunchy screen comedy with the sweet and smart “The Five-Year Engagement.’’

There's little doubt that the peppy, thoroughly upbeat finale is subsequently drained of its impact, and it's finally impossible to label The Five-Year Engagement as another more than yet another in a long line of disappointing, hopelessly sloppy...

"The Five-Year Engagement" is the marriage of dreary characters with a script that's neither funny nor poignant. This is a union that feels as if it runs a half-decade long.

Adding to the ongoing compendium of Judd Apatow comedies, The Five-Year Engagement provides a candid look at the modern-day wedding plan. The film reunites writer-star Jason Segel with his Forgetting Sarah Marshall cohort, director Nicholas Stoller...

Is The Five-Year Engagement - directed by Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the Greek) and starring “camp Apatow” veteran Jason Segel and rising starlett Emily Blunt – another memorable and laugh-out-loud entry in the Apatow’s stable of hits?

Judd Apatow-produced comedies are about as common as lazy Hollywood remakes these days, and are sometimes every bit as vacuous. But every now and then there’s a good one, one that catches you slightly off-guard, and The Five-Year Engagement...

Fear not, fans of Jason Segel’s proudly non-muscular flesh. His full-frontal scene may have been cut from “The Five-Year Engagement,” but a few shots of his backside remain. Eat your heart out, Clooney.

The first 30 minutes are funny, and the last five minutes offer a satisfying new resolution to a familiar storyline. But everything else in "The Five-Year Engagement" feels like it's unfolding in real time, a bloated slog that isn't humorous or...

The new Jason Segel-co-written, Apatow-produced romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement is an unusually pure hang-out movie. Like its protagonists, it’s in no hurry to get down to business, unless the business in question is luxuriating in the...

The Five-Year Engagement bills itself as a romcom in reverse, beginning with Segel’s Tom and Emily Blunt’s Violet hooking up at a New Year’s Eve party.

We're pretty genre-neutral here at Screenjabber Towers. We love all films, no matter what category they fall into – be it animated, horror, drama, comedy or even western. But our least favourite genre would have to be the rom-com.

A lot of terrible romantic comedies come along in a given year, and after five or six you begin to question your belief in anything -- romance, comedy, movies, even terribleness itself. Before you know it, you're trying to break the fever and hit...

It's a shame, really. Jason Segel and co-star Emily Blunt have so much natural chemistry together that something like The Five Year Engagement should resonate with real emotion. As the onscreen couple attempting to mix career, relocation, and the...

Romantic comedies, it has often been said, end just as the truly interesting drama of love — at least in real life — is beginning. What happens to two people who are meant to be together after they've found each other? That's the searching, funny-sad...

In Judd Apatow's stable of players, Jason Segel is probably the sweetest. Even when making a raunchy comedy like Forgetting Sarah Marshall or I Love You, Man, there is an earnestness in Segel that always comes through. (It's also part of what made him...

The team behind The Five Year Engagement - producer Judd Apatow, director/co-writer Nicholas Stoller, and co-writer/star Jason Segel - is the same group responsible for Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Despite that, this movie feels less like the often...

Faced with geographically opposed career opportunities, a newly engaged couple discovers that their life together has gotten in the way of their life together. And with this casually yet not automatically comedic concept, stars Jason Segel and Emily...

Another solid hit from Planet Apatow — charming, funny and remarkably in tune with real life.

Segel and Stoller repeat their duties from 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall and come up with another hilarious romantic-comedy for grown-ups. It's corny, but it keeps us laughing all the way through while stirring in some genuinely sweet moments.

Fresh from their success with ‘The Muppets’, star Jason Segel and his longtime co-writer (and occasional director) Nicholas Stoller have gone back to the source: crafting high-concept, low-maintenance romantic comedies for producer Judd Apatow.

IS Emily Blunt our loveliest leading lady? Kate Winslet’s too intense, Keira Knightly too remote and Carey Mulligan too kooky but Blunt is utterly delightful and down-to-earth, charming and funny and gorgeous and grounded.

The Five Year Engagement is an entirely watchable comedy that is ultimately worth seeing purely for Alison Brie's scene-stealing support performance.