Five-Year Engagement

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

While this may not be the funniest movie ever, it made me laugh when most “comedy” movies don’t. I watched it with my girlfriend (who loved it) and I found it very charming. I was a big fan of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Jason Segel did a great job yet again, writing a romantic comedy that is believable and funniest when portraying awkward and true to life situations. Also, this movie has a great supporting cast, Alison Brie (Community) and Chris Pratt (Moneyball) do a great job of taking stage when Jason Segel and Emily Blunt aren’t the center of attention. My only complaint is that Kevin Hart was way under used in this movie, but I like that he was in it at all which was a surprise to me since they failed to mention him in any commercials they played for this movie. If you like funny, charming movies that are worth watching more than once, you should get this. Great visuals as to be expected with such a new movie, and has some pretty good sepcial features.- Graham Swearingen

A lot more subtle than I expected. The movies frames a romantic comedy theme as a marshmellow test protocol. It is tightly scripted, the actors were obviously enjoying themself with it, and small scenes were lovingly crafted. Even a minor detail like how the food truck was done were highly inventive. All required themes: parents not so silently pushing them to get married, religious differences between the engaged, workplace romance, player vs nice guy, a cameo by puppets (a typical Jason Segel item) were worked out in loving detail.-Michael Abramoff

In some ways this is like your typical comedy, with those jokes and scenes that will be funny to reference with anyone else that has seen the movie(but will be impossible to explain to those that haven’t…though you will try). But there is also that true to life aspect of it, in which things don’t always go perfectly in life, and people will be able to relate. It also gets a little dark for awhile. I will admit that when I first saw it I was a little worried that i might not turn back up. Then it would have fallen into that category of movies that seems to want to rub your face in the fact that life sucks. I would say it is not bad to acknowledge that life is not always perfect, but being that people go to the movies to escape reality to a degree, it is not a good message
But this is a good movie for couples to watch, and Segal is hilarious in it. It is funny enough to watch more than once. And considering that it does not have a cast full of comedic superstars, I would say it does quite well.-Eric

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Emily Blunt, Jason Segel
Directors: Nicholas Stoller
Format: Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. )
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Universal
DVD Release Date: September 4, 2012
Run Time: 124 minutes