‘The Five-Year Engagement’ Trailer: Poking Gentle Fun At A Generational Inability To Fully Commit
I’m not going to assume that this is true for everyone, but I think a lot of people in my generation and the one or two that follow me have had the “it’s just different now” marriage conversation with some elder family members. For many couples, it takes a lot longer to get to the point where marriage seems like the best step to take, and even after getting engaged, the path to the altar isn’t always a short one.
So here areNicholas StollerandJason Segel, the team behindForgetting Sarah Marshalland the co-writers ofThe Muppets, to toy with that generational attitude towards marriage inThe Five-Year Engagement. Based on this new trailer, the film appears to take a gently comic approach to telling the story of a couple (Segel andEmily Blunt) whose nuptials are continually preempted by other life events. Check it out below.
As much as I likeForgetting Sarah Marshall, this looks in some ways like a more appealing comedy — not as sharp, perhaps, and not as over the top, but hopefully honest. I like the little bit we get fromJacki Weaver, and in general the tone seems great. Not trying too hard to push the edges of this story, but letting the characters do the work. That poster is going at theBridesmaidsimage pretty hard, but I guess that’s to be expected. When this is all said and done, maybe we’ll have a nice little fake trilogy. Program this movie, thenBridesmaidsand finish withSarah Marshall.
