'The Five-Year Engagement' (April 27)

If you don't want to see Poe-related bloody murder, check out this romantic-comedy counter-programming. Nicholas Stoller (¿The Muppets,¿ ¿Forgetting Sarah Marshall¿), wrote, directed and produced (with Judd Apatow) this tale of a couple, played by Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, whose long, long, long engagement strains their relationship. The supporting cast here is top-notch, from ¿Community¿ star Alison Brie to ¿Parks & Recreation's¿ Chris Pratt. <br><br> <b>Our excitement level: 6.</b> Stoller-Segel are on one heck of a roll, and the people involved here seem to know how to made a comedy when so many others just don't. At all.

( Universal / March 20, 2012 )

If you don't want to see Poe-related bloody murder, check out this romantic-comedy counter-programming. Nicholas Stoller (¿The Muppets,¿ ¿Forgetting Sarah Marshall¿), wrote, directed and produced (with Judd Apatow) this tale of a couple, played by Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, whose long, long, long engagement strains their relationship. The supporting cast here is top-notch, from ¿Community¿ star Alison Brie to ¿Parks & Recreation's¿ Chris Pratt.

Our excitement level: 6. Stoller-Segel are on one heck of a roll, and the people involved here seem to know how to made a comedy when so many others just don't. At all.

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