Streaming Movie Adventures: They Came Together (2014)

What if Wet Hot American Summer, but Rom-Com?

Paul Rudd and Amy Pohler looking at the camera in They Came Together
Stylized image of Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd each dressed as Ben Franklin in They Came Together. They are four colors- black and shades of red and pink. The background is horizontal cyan stripes and blocks.

It must be hard to make a parody of a generic light romantic comedy since even the real ones are right on the edge of self-parody. This one works when it pushes into absurdity and takes rom-com cliches to their extremes, but the large number of times where the characters just explicitly describe those cliches fall pretty flat.

Here’s a fake poster for you, inspired by verb tenses:

A fake poster for They Came Together based on the poster for A Hard Day's Night.

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