The Five-Year Engagement - Review

You have, all cute and adorable Emily Blunt who speaks British, on one hand playing a mean, selfish and the bad nut in the relationship. On the other hand you take the very inappropriate, yet slowly making his mark, rom-com hero Jason Segel to play the nice guy and whom you root for so much that in the end you wish they won't get married. Let's not even focus on how much I have wished for the role reversal because I hated to hate Emily Blunt. Moving on, the movie, as title suggests, traverses from the moment of popping the question to the moment of kissing the bride. But no, this is not a comedy unless you feel jumping on snow covered fire hydrant in freezing cold and getting hurt is your type of comedy. It has some good jokes here and there but at a length of 2 hours this movie changes genres from romcom to vulgar comedy to coming of age drama to epic romance and ends up as a cliched romance. Long back I have seen a movie called Four weddings and a funeral. It was a classic and before you jump to any conclusions, let me tell you this one does not even come close but is a complete opposite of it. As in, this movie could have been easily named Four funerals and a wedding. So the former had the 4 servings of celebration and one serving of sadness while the latter had the opposite. I know, my review is all over the place but then my feelings about the movie are also the same. I liked few parts, just sat through few, hated few, made sounds of exasperation for few and also enjoyed few parts of this lengthy movie. So if you are a Emily Blunt fan, use your discretion and if you are not then ignore this movie.