Maybe save the date

Actor-writer Jason Segel and director Nicholas Stoller (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) reteam for this story about a couple’s long, arduous journey down the aisle.

Successful chef Tom (Segel) proposes to his girlfriend of one year, Violet (Emily Blunt), on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco. But as the two start planning a wedding, life unsurprisingly interrupts.

Tom gives up his career and moves with his fiancée to a cold, dreary town in Michigan to support her blossoming career. Their initial adjustment to and sarcastic comments about their new lives are cute and witty, but the film soon takes a turn for the depressing.

Tom and Violet continually push the wedding date further back, and the pace drags right along with the misery of not knowing whether they’ll ever tie the knot.

Segel and Blunt’s sputtering on-screen chemistry doesn’t help much, either.

At slightly more than two hours long, this rom-com still delivers an unclear message. Should we feel refreshed and optimistic about our relationships, or disheartened and unsure?

By Rachael Stuart