{"id":143899,"date":"2014-06-23T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T07:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=143899"},"modified":"2014-06-25T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:30:02","slug":"they-came-together-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2014\/06\/23\/they-came-together-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"They Came Together Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: They Came Together<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lionsgate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade:\u00a0 B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director:\u00a0 David Wain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenplay:\u00a0 Michael Showalter, David Wain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cast:\u00a0 Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Cobie Smulders, Ed Helms, Ellie Kemper, Bill Hader, Christopher Meloni, Max Greenfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screened at:\u00a0 Review 2, NYC, 6\/17\/14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Opens:\u00a0 June 27, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romantic comedies are so predictable, following the usual arc Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, Boy Wins Girl, that they almost parody themselves.\u00a0 But if you are so in love with rom-coms that you overlook their derivative nature, David Wain comes along to satirize the genre, using repetitions, double-entendere\u2019s (like the very title \u201cThey Came Together\u201d), impossible sexual stuntmanship, and deliberately insipid conversations.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t hurt that he has Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler as his principals, going on first dates, building their relationship, tentatively breaking up, getting together again.\u00a0 Never mind that Rudd in real life is 45 years old and Poehler is 42: they give middle-aged people the hope of starting again, acting almost like kids.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve seen David Wain\u2019s 2001 feature \u201cWet Hot American Summer,\u201d set on the last day of camp in 1981, you know the director\u2019s style.\u00a0 And you\u2019re not surprised that he continues to employ Rudd and Poehler\u2019s comic charms.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is framed by dinner in a New York restaurant.\u00a0 Joel (Paul Rudd) and Molly (Amy Poehler) entertain friends Kyle (Bill Hader) and Karen (Ellie Kemper), describing how they met, how they fell apart, and how they got together\u2026no holds barred, not even the story of a guy who had a fit of diarrhea at a Halloween Party and tried to blame the distress on someone else.\u00a0 As they recount their tale, they trot out the usual Hollywood clich\u00e9s: meeting cute, being \u201cset up\u201d by friends, being introduced to strange parents (in this case to a pair of white supremacists), cold feet at wedding ceremonies, rushes to the wedding hall in a desperate attempt to arrive before the vows are completed.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Poehler performs in the role of the owner of a small candy shop on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side with the cutesy name Upper Sweet Side.\u00a0 By contrast, though Paul Rudd\u2019s Joel may be in the candy business himself, but as a man whom Molly calls a corporate robot, an exec with Candy Systems &amp; Research, which threatens to wipe out the small store.\u00a0 Though they fail to hit off at a party, they are more successful at the Strand Book Store, where they realize that they have in common that both like \u201cfiction books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the aforementioned diarrhea gag, Wain goes Apatow in introducing a snobbish French waiter who literally has a stick up his butt.\u00a0 The film is graced by a number of talented comics to support the parody, particularly the group of corporate execs, but for the most part it comes across as a series of Saturday Night Live type sketches.\u00a0 The film has the look of something shot on the fly, but when it works, its sketches are quite amusing indeed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rated R. 83 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 2014 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story \u2013 B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting \u2013 B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical \u2013 B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall &#8211; B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/they-came-together-movie.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/they-came-together-movie.jpeg\" alt=\"they came together movie\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-144147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/they-came-together-movie.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/they-came-together-movie-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: They Came Together Lionsgate Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. 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