I‘m going to be frank. I’m just hoping the above title brings in the traffic. Where you at, TMZ? Hey, gotta pay the bills somehow, folks.
As for the engagement, it is fictional and it will be five years long and it will indeed be between Jason Segel and Emily Blunt in the appropriately titled The Five-Year Engagement, which will be hitting theaters on April 27, 2012 – and if we are judging by the trailer, it looks pretty damn good. That should come as no surprise, as Segel and Blunt are awesome in just about everything that they do and I desperately want to believe that an everyman like Segel could score an engagement with a gal like Miss Blunt.
By the looks of the trailer, the tone is not so far off from Segel’s excellent Forgetting Sarah Marshall, although while retaining much of the silliness, it is definitely aiming to be a much more mature and restrained affair than the previously mentioned.
Check the trailer out below. What do you think? Are you on the Segel-Blunt train or are you not convinced of the film’s potential excellence?
I love the poster for this film.
http://www.impawards.com/2012/five_year_engagement.html
Too bad the trailer is not really very funny….why do these types of films have to rest so much on pratfalls?
Agreed about all the 3 stooges type of stuff Kurt, but otherwise this actually looks like a rom-com worth seeing. I’m beginning to fall in love with Emily Blunt (enough so that I actually own Sunshine Cleaning on Blu and I think I’ll watch Devil Wears Prada this weekend).
I liked this overall. It’s funny, it’s observant, it’s actually kind of sad and hurts in a lot of places, and clearly is drawn from some real-life experiences. Anyone who’s been in a relationship that suffered or ended because of unfortunate circumstances or a breaking point regarding personal sacrifices should get something out of this.
That said, the film starts off as good-messy, hanging out, scribbling in the margins, and eventually is more bad-messy, just plain unfocused, and making some decisions that sell out what worked about the movie. I don’t want to spoil them, but at one point it takes the opposite turn that Forgetting Sarah Marshall does with Segel’s burdened relationship. It feels wrong and very forced.
Blunt and Segel have some degree of chemistry but not enough. The supporting players are all great as is usual in an Apatow production and keep it consistently funny. So it’s worth seeing but as far as recent Apatow productions go it’s on the lower end of quality.