60
Metascore
27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The PlaylistJames RocchiThe PlaylistJames RocchiIt 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.
- 80Film.comFilm.comThey Came Together is a very fast, often very funny riff on a very tired Hollywood formula.
- 75Slant MagazineJesse CataldoSlant MagazineJesse CataldoWhat results is chaotic but ultimately focused, bound by an intense devotion to disassembling genre and narrative standards.
- 75HitfixDrew McWeenyHitfixDrew McWeenyThere are probably funnier satires out there, but They Came Together is laser accurate in the way it skewers its targets.
- 70VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasA 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.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MoorePoehler 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.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichHere, 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.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA 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.
- 20TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeThe 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.