5 year Engagement

One year after meeting on New Year's Eve, Tom proposes to Violet and she accepts. As they start to plan for the wedding, they are met with several obstacles that cause them to keep pushing back the date of the wedding. Tom is a Sous Chef at a high end restaurant in San Fransisco, and Violet is a psychology PhD graduate. When she gets accepted into the University of Michigan's post-doctorate in psychology program which lasts two years, Tom agrees to move with her and delay their wedding until then. As more and more things get in their way, the relationship gets strained and it is unclear if they will ever be able to salvage it before they have a chance to get married.

Jason Segel as Tom Solomon
Emily Blunt as Violet Barnes
Chris Pratt as Alex Eilhauer
Alison Brie as Suzie Barnes
Kevin Hart as Doug
Chris Parnell as Bill

Who will like this:

This is definitely what can be described as a "chick flick" aimed at women who have had bad relationships who dream of it working out in the end. People who liked "Our idiot Brother" or "Friends with Benefits" MAY also like this movie.

Phantom Thoughts:

I cannot express enough how much I disliked this one. I thought I may be able to relate a bit being a chef myself, and having had relationships go wrong, but this just dragged on with very few good scenes in it. It was meant to be a comedy, but I didn't find any of the situations that were meant to be funny amusing at all.
I like Jason Segel, Kevin Hart and SNL alum Chris Parnell, but I felt they were just going through the motions or underused. Could my vision of this be skewed by the fact that I saw this at an AMC Cine Dine theater that not only never brought us our food order and then sent 3 different people to ask if "everything was alright", but also almost killed the person I went with by having her drink a piece of glass in her Mango Margarita? Well, maybe. But I really did try to view the movie for what it was worth. And after having our tickets refunded, I can say that it wasn't even worth viewing for free. SPOILER: But is it a spoiler if it's in the title, really? These two characters are thrown so far apart, that there seems no logical way they could or SHOULD ever get back together, but after 5 years, love conquers all and they do get married in what could be the quickest wedding ever put together. I sat there with my "Yeah, right" face on during this last part of the movie. Although I described this as a "chick flick", I have to admit that the "chick" I saw it with didn't even like it. To be fair, she could have been suffering internal bleeding from glass shredding her esophagus. Who's to say?

Until next time, see you in the center seat.