They Came Together is over-the-top stupid, in the most exuberant, silliest and, yet smartest of ways... but you'll only enjoy it if you get it, much like Airplane! and other classic goofball parodies.

| Jan 21, 2021

It's still possible to make a spoof movie that is biting, merciless, clever, and (most importantly) uproariously funny.

| Jun 18, 2016

Rom-com tropes like the ''meet-cute'' are so tired that you can't just spoof them -- you have to spoof the spoofs, which this winking David Wain-Michael Showalter parody mostly succeeds at doing.

| Original Score: B | Dec 3, 2014

It's essentially a 10-minute sketch stretched out to an 80-minute movie, which feels even longer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 7, 2014

The film-makers highlight just how formulaic most romcoms are in their attitudes toward everything from race (they're invariably about white couples) to class and such stock types as angry ex-husbands.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2014

As artificially sweet as one of Molly's lollipops - and about as satisfying one too: They Came Together is a breezy romp through the rom-coms of yesteryear that might just leave you craving the real thing.

| Sep 5, 2014

David Wain's funny and well observed spoof romcom maintains its observational rigour from first to last, looking eerily just like just the kind of film it's sending up ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2014

Reinforcing the very rom-com tropes it's sending up, this is a little too postmodern for its own good. Happily, Poehler and Rudd are as irresistible as ever.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2014

Writer-director David Wain proves that he's one of the finest comedy filmmakers working right now.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2014

The trouble is, the film's relentless meta-quirkiness never builds: it just clatters on, repeating itself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 4, 2014

We'll have what they're having.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2014

Wain's film is both a takedown and a tribute: As with his summer-camp-movie spoof Wet Hot American Summer, you walk away with a renewed love for the genre.

| Jun 27, 2014

The problem with They Came Together is that what it settles on as the parody-able thing about romantic comedy is how generic it can feel.

| Jun 27, 2014

Simply recreating what we know to be hackneyed and safe doesn't suddenly make it hilarious and surprising. There has to be a spin to it; there has to be some innovation.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 27, 2014

At times laugh out loud-inducing, but ultimately feels more like a promising Saturday Night Live skit (the romcom couple?) than a standalone piece of entertainment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 27, 2014

A series of hit-and-miss sketch-comedy bits rather than a fully realized movie that might have gutted contemporary rom-com clichés rather than just weakly aping them.

| Jun 26, 2014

It's amusing enough summer entertainment with a winning cast ... and some genuine laughs thanks to its puppy-dog enthusiasm. And who doesn't like a dressing-to-impress montage?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 26, 2014

It's a light-hearted film that is smarter than it seems-or as Wain once said, "a deliberately terrible romantic comedy."

| Jun 26, 2014

They Came Together will likely appeal to rom-com fans as much as to those who find such films annoyingly clichéd.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2014

"They Came Together" is occasionally very funny, and moderately funny the rest of the time. In mathematical terms that adds up to pretty funny or "funny enough."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2014