Fresh
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.
Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly
They Came Together
He came...She came...They both came
2014 · 1h 23m · R
Comedy
Directed by
David Wain
Overview
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
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.
Linda Holmes, NPR
Rotten
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.
Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com
Rotten
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.
Courtney Shea, Globe and Mail
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