They Came Together
Lionsgate | Release Date: June 27, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
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15
Mixed:
9
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonJun 24, 2014
They Came Together is one joke repeated until you're broken down by the giggles. It shouldn't work as well as it does, and wouldn't if it weren't perfectly cast with America's Comedy Sweethearts. Read full review
83
The PlaylistJames RocchiJan 27, 2014
It knows how to mock cliché big things, like jokes about set-dressing and music video montages; it’s also wise about small matters, right down to the font and the framing device. Read full review
80
Film.comJan 27, 2014
They Came Together is a very fast, often very funny riff on a very tired Hollywood formula. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyStephan LeeJun 27, 2014
Most of the jokes land bluntly – ”This is a cliché!” – but tight pacing and a killer cast, which also includes Ed Helms and Christopher Meloni, make up for the inconsistent gags. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 26, 2014
Thanks to a smart screenplay, direction that perfectly captures the tone of modern rom-coms and two of the most engaging comedic leads working in movies and TV today, “They Came Together” is more entertaining and (in its own insane way) more endearing than two-thirds of the legitimate romantic comedies I’ve seen over the last two decades. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia PuigJun 26, 2014
The film's most engaging character is not actually human: It's Manhattan, of course, a point made repeatedly over that protracted dinner by the voluble lovebirds. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 26, 2014
Occasionally very funny, and moderately funny the rest of the time. In mathematical terms that adds up to pretty funny or "funny enough." Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jun 25, 2014
Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious. Read full review
75
HitfixDrew McWeenyJun 24, 2014
There are probably funnier satires out there, but They Came Together is laser accurate in the way it skewers its targets. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJesse CataldoJun 23, 2014
What results is chaotic but ultimately focused, bound by an intense devotion to disassembling genre and narrative standards. Read full review
75
IndieWireRobert Cameron FowlerJan 27, 2014
In terms of its pure laughter quotient, They Came Together constantly delivers. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJun 27, 2014
Taking pretty much every rom-com trope and distilling it into highly concentrated ridiculousness, 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. Read full review
70
VarietyScott FoundasJan 27, 2014
A lively comic jamboree that’s sometimes smarter than it is funny and hits about as often as it misses, but is, on balance, a good deal of fun. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 26, 2014
Larky, witty and sometimes even wise, this spoof on every rom-com ever made is less a fully realized film than an extended skit, a series of set pieces that poke gentle and sometimes transgressively crude fun at the tropes of girl-meets-boy that have enchanted and addled audiences for generations. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJun 24, 2014
Poehler and Rudd riff and banter like old marrieds, and make even the cheesiest lines funny, make even the cliched dating montages set to syrupy pop music feel — if not fresh and new — at least funny enough to mock. Read full review
60
EmpireDavid HughesSep 1, 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. Read full review
60
SlateDana StevensJun 26, 2014
This rough-edged parody feels both distinctive and handmade, and for those reasons alone it’s a hard movie to hate, even when it temporarily loses its comic footing. Anyway, as romantic comedies down the ages have taught us, hatred is just a latent form of love. Read full review
60
The DissolveGenevieve KoskiJun 25, 2014
There are a lot of laughs in They Came Together, but few curveballs. The biggest surprise is that the film feels so safe. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichJun 24, 2014
Here, though, everyone involved seems above the rom-com conventions they’re satirizing, so anxious to get to each punch line that they let the connective tissue languish. You howl often but quickly forget why. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Courtney SheaJun 27, 2014
Poehler’s Parks and Rec co-star Adam Scott is there, playing a sound engineer and so is John Stamos from "Full House," because, you know, that’s funny. Until it’s tiresome. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 26, 2014
Mr. Wain, who made a delightful comedy with “Role Models” and a cult favorite with “Wet Hot American Summer,” has opted to deliver 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. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJun 26, 2014
A feature-length lampoon needs more than rubbery performances, so-so silliness and the constant thrum of meta humor to make it a consistently amusing variation on a theme. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartJun 25, 2014
So why isn’t They Came Together more uniformly hilarious? Perhaps it’s that elusive problem of trying to explain why a thing is funny in the first place: Spelling it out deflates the joke. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 27, 2014
A great many of these individual scenes are funny... But the film fails to do what those rare, immortal rom-coms get right: take all its individually pleasing ingredients and make a satisfying movie out of them. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJun 27, 2014
Means to make fun of romantic comedies the way "Airplane!" goofed on disaster movies and the "Naked Gun" films spoofed detective flicks. The result is actually more in line with Gus Van Sant’s ambitious but ill-advised shot-for-shot remake of "Psycho." Read full review
20
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJun 17, 2014
The characters, the situations, and the story are whatever they need to be in the moment to launch whatever joke the movie feels like telling at that moment. This is Wain and Showalter working in “Wet Hot American Summer” spoof mode, and if you're a fan of that movie, you may well like this one as well. Read full review
0
ObserverRex ReedJun 25, 2014
A ponderous spoof of movie rom-coms that plummets stupidity to a new low even by Hollywood standards. Read full review
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