The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
Exactly one year after Tom meets Violet, he surprises her with a wedding ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever after. However, this engaged couple just keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.
As the previous writer wrote a good part of this movie is very boring and slow. There were a few funny parts,but that is about it. There was a fair amount of crude humor,which gets tiring fast. Wait for the video.
Wins the first round of the playoffs as one of the worst films of 2012. Two fine actors, Emily Blunt and Jason Segal are "Violet" and "Tom" , excruciatingly saccharine, superficial lovers unable to exchange vows. Why did the audience have to be crucified on their cross of ineptitude? They mew, fawn, babble endearments (at tooth- ache intensity); she refers to him as "babe" so copiously I earnestly thought she had forgotten his name; which was not necessarily a bad thing. Their embarrassing gushiness, random displays of raunchiness are devoid of a centimeter of chemistry. One egregious sin I can never forgive in my screen characters is boredom; Violet and Tom have cornered the market, championed, monopolized tedium.
This movie could have been legitimate if it had concentrated on viable issues that many couples are confronted with; Violet and Tom are from different countries, cultures, religions, disparate interests. Anyone who has ever loved, been disappointed in romance, conquered the chasms or sunk in the mire of failed relationships will exit knowing even as neophytes that could have written a finer script.
On the positive side it is not as bad as any of the "Sex and the City" movies.
ONE STAR!
For NOW ....... Peneflix
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don't waste your time or money. this is by far one of the worst, most boring movies I've ever sat through.
