Review for The Five Year
Engagement R Romantic Comedy 2:04
by John Thielking
4-29-12
The Five Year Engagement is a romantic comedy about a couple living
in San Francisco who decide to get married just before the woman who
is engaged gets a post-doc position in Michigan. Because
of this event, the couple decide to put their wedding plans on hold
until after the woman completes her post-doc assignment. The woman
and her co-workers have some odd ideas about what makes for a good
psychology experiment. The woman thinks that they should sit a
group of people in a room together with a box of stale donuts.
The group is told that the donuts will be replaced with fresh ones
in 20 minutes. The goal of the experiment is to verify that
dysfunctional people (as indicated on a psych test that they take
while waiting for fresh donuts) will be the first to eat the stale
donuts. Three stars.
This movie ranks as nonviolent because it has only 11 violent scenes
in a little over 2 hours. These include: a chef cuts her
finger, a man slips and falls while cleaning an iced over
windshield, a man jumps and lands his thigh on a fire hydrant, a
deer gets shot by hunters with a gun, another deer gets shot at with
a crossbow, a woman gets shot in the leg with a crossbow, a woman
runs into a car door, a man falls from the roof of a car while
chasing another man, a man punches another man, a man's toe gets
frostbitten and amputated and there is a violent video of a psych
experiment where a gun goes off.
The previews include: a violent preview for Prometheus (too
violent), somewhat violent previews for Ted Is Real, That's My Boy
and The Dictator and nonviolent previews for This Is 40 and Magic
Mike.
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