![]() Joel is so oddly taken with this pointless digression that Kyle and Karen have to yank him out of this weird loop or it would seemingly take up the rest of the movie and while I laughed uproariously at the repetition, I imagine that after ten or fifteen minutes, “Yeah, tell me about it” and “You can say that again” might get a little bit old. It does not hurt to have the man who brought us the Conan Mac & Me ruse, arguably the greatest running joke of all time, and a running joke dependent upon perverse repetition, executing this wonderfully silly gag but what really makes the sequence hilarious is how straight everything is played. The bartender tells him how he knows that he’s had a bad day, and then he tells him again. ![]() This leads to a circular loop where Joel either says “Yeah, tell me about it” or “You can say that again” and the very literal-minded bartender does just that in the most repetitive, literal-minded manner imaginable. Sparks fly, as sparks do in movies like this, but when Molly and Joel realize that they share a rare, special interest in “fiction books” ice turns to heat and these instant enemies turn into lovers. In true romantic comedy tradition, it’s hate at first sight for these likely/unlikely lovers when they literally bump into each other while both dressed as Benjamin Franklin for a Halloween party. Like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail, the brutal dictates of capitalism forces Molly and Joel to square off against each other in the winner-takes-all arena of the candy marketplace but the even crueller, even more rigid demands of romantic comedy formula insist that they end up together after overcoming the requisite hurtles to true love. Only instead of being rivals in the alternately precious (Meg Ryan’s cute li’l literature emporium) and soulless (Tom Hanks’ book-selling behemoth) book-selling business, Molly (Poehler) is the adorably quirky proprietor of an equally precious little candy store, the kind that somehow manages to stay in business despite insane rents, zero customers and the owner’s insistence on giving away her merchandise for free because that’s the nice thing to do, and Joel works for a candy conglomerate so vast and soulless it might as well be a defense contractor. In both the broad strokes and the individual details, Molly and Joel’s star-crossed romance bears an unmistakable resemblance to Nora Ephron’s abysmal but extraordinarily popular 1998 smash You’ve Got Mail. Molly and Joel are sharing this story with Kyle (Bill Hader) and Karen (Ellie Kemper), a couple with issues of their own that spill out in unseemly admissions of deep unhappiness on Kyle’s part. If Molly and Joel’s romance feels achingly familiar that’s probably because it hits all the beats of the typical romcom, from the meet cute to the climactic dash to the airport and/or wedding ceremony to prevent the love of our protagonist’s life from leaving forever or marrying the wrong person. The rambling, wonderfully digressive story provides a superhero origin story for the suspiciously familiar-feeling star-crossed romance between Molly (Amy Poehler) and Joel (Paul Rudd). and Showalter show that the art of lampooning is far from dead, and merely needed some legitimate talent to make it shine again.David Wain’s 2014 romantic comedy parody ingeniously takes the form of a very long anecdote shared over dinner and drinks. " have created the perfect parody.the film will keep you laughing every 15 seconds.every bit as brilliant as classic spoofs like Airplane!, Young Frankenstein and The Naked Gun, but still stands on its own with Wain's unique comedic 's glorious, and just might be Wain's best film yet. "With a successful gag rate that sits next to Airplane! in the laughs-per-minute region, They Came Together is a masterpiece of comedy, David Wain’s strongest film to date. I don't think I've laughed harder or more consistently in a comedy in years." "Easily best movie since Wet Hot American Summer. "David Wain‘s latest comedy brilliantly and hilariously deconstructs every aspect of the genre to provide one of the funniest films one is bound to see this year. "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." ![]() "Irreverent, amusingly fast-paced and broadly hilarious." "They Came Together Will Make You Love Rom-Coms Again"
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