Amy Phoeler! Paul Rudd! Schmitt from New Girl! Good cast right?
Great cast! So what’s it about? They Came Together begins as main characters Molly (Poehler) and Joel (Rudd) are telling friends over dinner about how they met and fell in love. Cue an awkward evening with a couple insistent on telling their 'corny, romantic comedy kind of story' while the story plays itself out on screen.
Isn't it meant to be a spoof romcom? It is – we find out that mutual friends attempted to set them up, but once it’s established the two of them work for rival companies - hers a cute, independent sweet shop, his a corporate confectionary giant - a rift ensues, yet as if by some unexplainable force of nature, grow more and more attracted to one another and end up falling in love. Sound familiar, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks?
**Ahh I see. You’ve Got Mail. Man, love that film. Us too.
So doesn't it make you feel guilty for watching a romcom? A little, but you’ll be too busy laughing to care.
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Great, tell us more... So, all the stereotypes of your average romcom feature; Joel's younger, flaky brother (Max Greenfield, aka New Girl’s Schmitt), the cold-hearted ex-girlfriend, the rival colleague who eventually gets his comeuppance... Molly herself is described as an endearing 'clutz' you can't help but fall in love with. A stereotype I feel like we've seen somewhere before...
**And it's funny, right? **Ultimately, we found it hilarious. While it could occasionally (and has been) interpreted as an over-the-top piss-take, for the most part it's refreshingly kooky and smart. There are also the odd dark, highly inappropriate parts that pop up now and again to throuw a spanner into the works. You know Magda from Sex and the City? Don't watch this fim if you want to remember her as a sweet elderly child-minder.
**So will romcom lovers **like it too? Well, according to the director, the film isn't meant to be a mean stab at the genre - when asked what he thought Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks would think if they saw it he told Vanity Fair, 'I hope that they would recognize how loving of a spoof this is. I think all of the best spoofs come out of a deep love for their subject and this is certainly that kind'.
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What are people saying about it? Bit of a mixed bag - the New York Observerwasn’t impressed; ‘They Came Together is as amusing as a knee replacement, and as fresh, witty and clever as a Howdy Doody monologue’, but Total Film have said, ‘Wain’s world is an unrepentantly wacky one, with an Airplane!-style fizzy mix of verbal, visual and raunch gags shaking up the sharp-eyed spoofing'.
And what're we saying? We really enjoyed it. The laughs were occasionally predictable but easy to overlook because if one joke doesnt get you, the next one's coming up in a couple of seconds. Those dark moments kept our attention too and Rudd and Phoeler's performances are pretty great. Definetely worth your Orange Wednesday code.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.