★★ The problem that plagues so many Judd Apatow productions — the one that keeps good comedies from being great ones — unfortunately exists in “The Five-Year Engagement,” too. It’s a matter of knowing when to say when, of knowing which bits should be trimmed and which should have been cut altogether. “The Five-Year Engagement” is so scattered and overlong, it really feels like it lasts five years, and even the inherent likability of stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt can’t overcome the film’s pervasive sense of strain. The movie becomes so tortured that it almost gets to the point …
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