"The Five-year Engagement:" Reviews are in

Jason Segel and Emily Blunt in "The Five-Year Engagement."

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(CBS News) "The Five-Year Engagement," the new romantic comedy starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, hits theaters today.

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The film follows Violet Barnes (Blunt), a smart psychology graduate student, and Tom Solomon (Segel), a sous chef at an upscale San Francisco restaurant. 

Unlike most romantic comedies, this film starts with the couple getting engaged, but trouble ensues when Violet gets accepted into her dream program at University of Michigan. Tom is forced to move to Michigan and their wedding plans keep getting postponed.

Critics have given the film, co-written by Segel and produced by Judd Apatow, fairly mixed reviews. Here's what some of them had to say:

"I liked 'The Five-Year Engagement,' and then I didn't, and then I did - which seems just about right for a movie dedicated to examining how even the purest affections can be fatally derailed," Washington Post critic Ann Hornday.

"'The Five-Year Engagement' becomes two things: an accurate reflection of a new generation of postponement-prone 30-somethings, and a rather uninteresting story," Newsday critic Rafer Guzman.

" 'The Five-Year Engagement' is far more relatable than your typical Apatow man-boy fable - Violet is much more than just a fantasy prop for the romantic Tom," says New York Post critic Lou Lumenick.

"But much of the humor, as well as the disappointment and anxiety that shadow the laughs, arises from thwarted attempts at kindness. The result -- not to spoil anything -- is a very nice movie," says New York Times critic A.O. Scott.

Tell us: Will you see "The Five-Year Engagement"?

[sceneontv]

I wanted to love this movie because I'm usually all about any movies that anyone in the whole Judd Appatow crew of friends make, and I love both Jason Segel and Emily Blunt...the movie started really strong, but then it just really started to drag in the middle. I think it could've been half an hour shorter and still been just as effective, but I was kind of bored for awhile.

Besides that, I liked the way they ended it with all the insanity happening so fast, I really loved the first 30-40 minutes of it, and I also thought there was some wonderful use of music. The "We Didn't Start the Fire" parody was hilarious - I haven't heard that song in ages, and I it was used great. Tokyo Police Club's "End of a Spark" was also a great song choice for when Violet is at the bar hanging out with her co-workers when she decides to confide in the professor.

Finally, Allison Brie was probably my favorite character in the movie, what a great job - I'll leave it at that, but yeah she was so convincing.