The Five-Year Engagement is surprisingly enjoyable for a couple that I never really believed was together. Every actor did a great job, but I’m not sure if the ensemble was believable as a community. It dragged a bit as it unfolded, but there were some laughs. I didn’t like the implicit message: if you’re a woman and a couple follows her career instead of his, he will shrivel up and die. I thought the overall premise was promising: nothing is ever perfect so stop trying to pretend like it will be because life will just pass you by. The Five-Year Engagement has no brilliant ideas for couples on how to solve the problem of loving each other, but life circumstances seems to take the two people in opposite directions or which type of happiness is preferable: happiness with a person or miserable in everything else or vice versa. It implies that happiness with a person means that everything will magically fall into place, but that isn’t true. So if you like rom coms produced by Judd Apatow and don’t analyze things too much, The Five-Year Engagement is for you, but don’t expect a top tier Apatow movie like The 40 Year Old Virgin.