One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.
It’s a shame that one of the few decent rom-coms in recent memory should lack enough comedy to balance out the unexpectedly truthful treatment of romance.
What The Five-Year Engagement lacks in belly laughs it makes up for in heart and soul, successfully exploring the genuine greys of a relationship instead of painting them black and white.
A five-year engagement? It felt much longer.
Another solid hit from Planet Apatow — charming, funny and remarkably in tune with real life.
It’s way too long, but it’s the good stuff that ultimately lingers.
Some of the ensuing comedy feels stretched over the bloated two-hour-plus running time, but Segel and Blunt are engaging. What's more, the film strives to be emotionally true and you'll squirm as well as laugh.
It’s honest, mature and insightful but also fun, silly and touchingly romantic.
Segel and Stoller could – no, should have been bolder: their leading lady deserves it.
Jason Segel and Emily Blunt's procrastinating couple have to deal with actual real-world problems in that rarest of things: a decent romcom.
It feels more like ten.
Feelings of wistfulness, of frustration and disappointment, underlie the comedy of this long engagement, and it's a mark of the nuanced script and performances that the outcome actually begins to matter to us.
Although the film flirts with the usual rom-com clichés, the chemistry between the two stars is palpable, there are plenty of belly laughs and Tom and Violet never feel less than real.
It’s not one that you’d need to see again and again, but it does leave a very sweet taste in the mouth.
Offers plenty of chuckles – although not enough to justify the middle-aged spread of its two-hour running time.
Like a buffet – you can dip in and out and it never seems to end.
The film gets a tad saggy in the final third; it may have benefited from being The Three-Year Engagement. But it's hard to be too strict when it has such smarts.
General release. Check local listings for show times.