Tuesday 13 November 2012

The Five-Year Engagement (2012) 8/10

Starring : Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie
Director : Nicholas Stoller
Running Time : 132 mins

One year after meeting at a New Year’s Eve party, Tom Solomon (Segel) decides to propose to his girlfriend Violet Barnes (Blunt), but when Violet gets offered a position as an experimental psychologist at a university that will involve them having to move, the wedding gets put on hold for two years until she can complete her work, with Tom deciding to quit his chef job in order to stay with her. But when the two years turns into four, Tom starts to get annoyed with how much of his life has been put on hold for Violet.

I actually really enjoyed this movie which looks at the kind of things that can delay a wedding, most of them being related to career opportunities. I thought, judging by the runtime and the bad press I’d heard about it that it would be awful, but it is actually very entertaining with some realistic comedy that doesn’t go too over the top, although the rushed wedding at the end felt a little tacked on to me.

You’ll like this if you liked : Forgetting Sarah Marshall



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