5 year engagement: 2/5
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“The Five Year Engagement” starts out as a pretty decent movie but then takes a swerve and dives off right off the cliff.
The plot is pretty simple. A newly engaged couple must choose between their career ambitions or following through with their wedding plans. As you can guess from the title, they choose their careers. Jason Siegel(How I Met Your Mother) follows his fiancé, Emily Blunt to Michigan so she can pursue her dream career at the University. He gives up his job as a chef in San Francisco and gets a job at a sandwich shop. At first he is supportive of his fiancé but as time progresses, his resentment for his new life grows, and the wedding date gets pushed further back.
This movie is just over two hours long. As I mentioned above, it is pretty decent for the first hour, but then it takes a sharp tailspin down and never really gets back on track until the final twenty minutes. It felt like the writers or directors had a lot of ideas and just tried to mash them all together. Don't get me wrong there are lots of laughs in this movie. Jason Siegel's “fake orgasm” is pretty memorable(because guys fake it too). An argument between Blunt and her younger sister is pretty good too. Trust me when I say you will never look at Sesame Street the same way again.
Jason Siegel and Emily Blunt do make a pretty good couple, and there is a pretty good supporting cast of oddball characters. I particularly liked Siegel's sandwich shop boss, who takes great pride when he shares that he has tried to dill just about everything including his pot. Again the main thing wrong with this movie is that nobody took the time to do any editing. There is no need to buy the DVD because there will be no deleted scenes or outtakes. I am giving it 2/5 but I'm pretty sure it could be a 4 if I had only watched the first 60 minutes and the last 20.
