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