Terrible. Am I alone in this?
I've seen this movie twice, if you can imagine based on this post's title. The second time was very recent. To be more exact, yesterday. Anyway, upon viewing it a second time, I can see why I wasn't all that impressed the first time around. To start with, I don't really care for Jason Segal. More accurately, I am on the border of despising him, from his dotted appearance to his inadequate acting. Adding this to the formula, the whole movie itself was just a catastrophic disappointment, considering how much I like Emily Blunt. Despite my intense dislike for Jason Segal, I do adore Emily Blunt and her adorably British personality.
The key issue in the film was the dreadful pacing. A romantic comedy, first of all, should not take two hours to last--the ideal length is about ninety minutes. No, Five-Year Engagement was much too long, taking nearly five years to get on with it and end. When the writers intended to make the audience laugh, as with their "hilarious" sex/penis jokes, it was just awkward and painful. More like aggravating than painful because, for it to be painful, you have to actually like the writers at least a tad. Aside from the fact that it took a literal five years for Jason Segal and Emily Blunt's characters to finally get married, the entire duration of their on-off engagement was so pointless and uninteresting. Plus, for a movie that takes two hours to finish, you'd expect the writers to explain absolutely everything that happens within that excruciating time frame. I won't give anything away (because you'll most definitely want to watch it), but I'll simply say that there were many scenes that could have easily been erased.
Referring to the so-called humor of this movie, writers Jason Segal and Nicholas Stoller composed the type of movie only they would find amusing, as well as people like them. In other words, the film was just a collection of their own real-life situations as well as personal inside-jokes. To make a successful movie, the jokes must appeal to all audiences. Just a tip for you aspiring writers out there, including Jason Segal and Nicholas Stoller. (I'm no writer myself, but I'm confident that it's good advice.) Overall, the movie is an unorganized mess of awkward dialogues that take far too long to wrap up and supposedly sweet twists that really are just annoying because you want the movie to end. And an exceeded amount of boring montages.
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