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1. • Send-up of the tried-and-true romcom genre

     • Parents need to know that They Came Together is a send-up of the tried-and-true romcom genre, starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler as the destined-to-be-together couple.
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   • The core of the plot plays like a knowingly cutesy version of "You’ve Got Mail," but "They Came Together" also features recognizable rom-com nuggets ranging from "Pillow Talk" to "When Harry Met Sally..." Rudd’s Joel works for a giant, soulless candy corporation.

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   • Shot on location in New York City, which is almost like another character. For a movie that has a ton of very funny people, this is not a very funny film. The filmmaker seems to think repeating the clichés of a RomCom and winking sidelong at the audience makes the old clichés funny but really it doesn't.

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   • It's confounding, considering the cast is practically an assembly of comedy all-stars. And then there's the premise -- make a movie skewering the romcom genre's worst habits by referencing the classics (including You've Got Mail and Jerry Maguire ), and make it winning and witty at the same time.

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   Jun 27, 2014 · Michael Showalter and David Wain’s They Came Together is meant to be a parody of romantic comedies — that’s comedies, plural — but its premise is even more specific: A candy store competing...

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   They Came Together. Molly owns a quaint little sweet shop. Joel works for a gigantic candy company threatening to shut her down. How they meet, fall in love, break up and get back together is hilariously recounted in this rom-com spoof.

   • 5.6/10 (25K)
   • Genre: Comedy, Romance

   • Director: David Wain
   • Release Date: 2014-09-05

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   Sep 4, 2014 · David Wain's New York-set, Jerry Zucker-like spoof of romcoms is very charming in its goofy and inane way. Beneath the jokes about neo-Nazis and incontinence, it is easy to detect the director...

   • Author: Geoffrey Macnab

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   Jan 25, 2014 · Our story is bookened and interrupted throughout by Rudd and Poehler explaining their cheesy romantic comedy story to Ellie Kemper ("The Office") and Bill Hader ("Saturday Night Live") and their...

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   Jun 26, 2014 · Using a framing device of couples sharing their “how-we-met story,” They Came Together states its intentions forthrightly, beginning with Molly (Amy Poehler) and Joel (Paul Rudd) insisting to their dining companions (Bill Hader and Ellie Kemper) that their love story is the stuff rom-coms are made of.

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   Parents need to know that They Came Together is a send-up of the tried-and-true romcom genre, starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler as the destined-to-be-together couple. Expect lots of swearing (including "f--k" and "s--t"), one all-out brawl that's played for laughs, moderate drinking,…

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   Jun 23, 2014 · Returning to the anarchic, absurdist rhythms that have defined most of his work, David Wain drops the studio sheen of Role Models and Wanderlust for They Came Together, a willfully ramshackle anti-rom-com.