Review of They Came Together (2014) by Campbell P — 29 Jan 2016

They Came Together is a spoof on romantic comedies by the people who made Wet Hot American Summer which in my opinion is a more fun movie. This film follows Joel and Molly and how their relationship together goes up and down and how they became a married couple.

Throughout the movie the writers beat on your head that their story is like a corny romantic comedy and it just doesn't hide the fact that they made a romantic comedy. I would consider calling this a parody movie if it was a lot funnier than it actually is.

They Came Together is funny, don't get me wrong, but if they were gonna say it's like any other romcom they could've built into that premise so much further and made it hilarious. The whole plot is very messy throughout this entire film.

At one point it focuses on the candy store, then their relationship then doing things that never come back in the story again like meeting Molly's parents, it hardly had anything to do with the story.

I'd be lying if I said that this film didn't make me laugh because I laughed out loud more than once but there wasn't enough of that. I wouldn't mind having more jokes like Joel saying "you can say that again" and stuff like that.

The acting by the leads Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler were good but kind of forgettable and unmemorable. The main problem is that to me it's very forgettable and that's because it just wasn't funny enough and didn't have a great story since its like "a corny romantic comedy".

I was kind of disappointed by They Came Together but there's a few laugh out loud scenes that made me enjoy myself at parts. C-.