The Christian Sciene MonitorI was expecting something raunchier. Instead, what we have here is a wistful, somewhat overextended but occasionally sweet c...
Total FilmWhat The Five-Year Engagement lacks in belly laughs it makes up for in heart and soul, successfully exploring the genuine gr...
TelegraphJason Segel and Emily Blunt find impressive comic chemistry in this freshly-baked doughnut of a romcom
The GuardianJason Segel and Emily Blunt's procrastinating couple have to deal with actual real-world problems in that rarest of things: ...
TelegraphThe wedding engagement is not the only thing that drags on in this overlong romcom writes Robbie Collin.
The Philadelphia InquirerBetween the jokes about drinking mead out of deer hoofs, about tiny tykes armed with crossbows, about meeting cute in a bunn...
Rolling StoneThe dream partnership of Jason Segel and Nick Stoller gets dinged a bit in the frustratingly uneven The Five-Year Engagement...
The Boston GlobeBetween that opening proposal and the film's title, you know exactly what's going to happen, and the result is a comedy-dram...
Wall Street Journalometime around what I guessed to be the one-hour mark in "The Five-Year Engagement, I checked my watch and honestly thought ...
The New York TimesThe Five-Year Engagement dutifully hits the marks of its genre, but it is also about the unpredictability of life and the ev...
Los Angeles TimesA little restraint would have gone a long way to making this a far funnier, fleeter affair.
USA TodayThere are funny scenarios and sweet moments, but not nearly enough in this screenplay co-written by Segel and director Nicho...
SlateIt's too bad The Five-Year Engagement's overlong, conventional last third squanders the goodwill built up in that sharply ob...
San Francisco ChronicleThe movie is a precision instrument with no parts jammed together, just everything smooth and functioning.
Washington PostI liked The Five-Year Engagement, and then I didn't, and then I did - which seems just about right for a movie dedicated to ...
New York PostThis seems like another breakthrough for Blunt, who demonstrates an ample gift for physical comedy. She and Segel make an in...
Richard RoeperSometimes uneven and sometimes beyond gross, but more often it's funny, smart and different.
New York Daily NewsBlunt has never been more relaxed, and she and Segel have a believably warm chemistry.
The New YorkerLike Apatow's "Funny People," the film is an intentional hybrid: half gag comedy, half open-ended exploration of everything ...
Entertainment WeeklyRomantic comedies, it has often been said, end just as the truly interesting drama of love — at least in real life — is begi...
ReelViewsthis movie feels less like the often raunchy, sometimes hilarious 2008 romantic comedy and more like 2010's Blue Valentine.
Film School RejectsOverly long run time and it feels it; stretches of bleakness and cliches where the laughs fall flat; tonal issues; excessive...
/FilmThe Five-Year Engagement has enough more humor and warmth to make for a perfectly reasonable option for fluffy entertainment.
Entertainment WeeklyA lively, original, and scattershot-hilarious ramble of a Judd Apatow production.
The Philadelphia InquirerBetween the jokes about drinking mead out of deer hoofs, about tiny tykes armed with crossbows, about meeting cute in a bunn...
Rolling StoneThe dream partnership of Jason Segel and Nick Stoller gets dinged a bit in the frustratingly uneven The Five-Year Engagement...
The Boston GlobeBetween that opening proposal and the film's title, you know exactly what's going to happen, and the result is a comedy-dram...
Washington PostSometime around what I guessed to be the one-hour mark in The Five-Year Engagement, I checked my watch and honestly thought ...
The New York TimesThe Five-Year Engagement dutifully hits the marks of its genre, but it is also about the unpredictability of life and the ev...
Los Angeles TimesA little restraint would have gone a long way to making this a far funnier, fleeter affair.
USA TodayThere are funny scenarios and sweet moments, but not nearly enough in this screenplay co-written by Segel and director Nicho...
SlateIt's too bad The Five-Year Engagement's overlong, conventional last third squanders the goodwill built up in that sharply ob...
San Francisco ChronicleThe movie is a precision instrument with no parts jammed together, just everything smooth and functioning.
Washington PostI liked The Five-Year Engagement, and then I didn't, and then I did - which seems just about right for a movie dedicated to ...
New York PostThis seems like another breakthrough for Blunt, who demonstrates an ample gift for physical comedy. She and Segel make an in...
Richard RoeperSometimes uneven and sometimes beyond gross, but more often it's funny, smart and different.
New York Daily NewsBlunt has never been more relaxed, and she and Segel have a believably warm chemistry.
E! OnlineJason Segel and Emily Blunt are a pair of lovebirds whose journey to 'I do' lasts more than a couple of years—five to be exa...
Black Sheep ReviewsStoller and Segel continue to prove they can find great laughs in life's more sobering experiences.
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Partial Film Information
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Writer: Nicholas Stoller
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt
Release: April 27, 2012
Writer: Nicholas Stoller
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt
Release: April 27, 2012
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