Well that was disappointing.
The final 20 or 25 minutes of “The Five-Year Engagement” is
great, and finally lives up to the film’s potential. Too bad the first 100 or
so (yes, it’s 124 minute long comedy we’re talking about) are a toothless,
meandering waste of time. Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller—the creative team
behind “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “The Muppets”— are simply going through
the motions here, and by the time they finally get around to the good stuff,
the kind of charm and humor that makes their other movies engaging and fun,
you’ve lost interest and really just want it all to be over. After the end the
let down is so much more severe because you’ve seen how good the movie
could have been.
