In David Wain’s new film, the comedian and Wet Hot American Summer director perfectly spoofs the rom-com genre. But that’s only because he’s a big fan.
Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd in They Came Together
Lionsgate
The new film They Came Together is the kind of spoof only someone intimately familiar with romantic comedy conventions could make. And director and screenwriter David Wain is the first to admit that he loves rom-com. The movie centers on Joel (Paul Rudd) and Molly (Amy Poehler), a pair of attractive, nice New Yorkers with lives so formlessly bland they come across as utterly insane. They meet cute, they hate each other until they realize they've fallen in love, there's a twist, and another twist, and of course, a dramatic happy ending.
They Came Together opened in theaters this weekend after premiering at Sundance earlier this year, but it's a project Wain and his co-writer and longtime collaborator Michael Showalter have been planning for a while — they'd hoped to make it their follow-up to Wain's 2001 directorial debut Wet Hot American Summer, but it took years for the film to finally get made. The result is a star-studded parody that's sharp but affectionate, including nods to When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail as well as plenty of gags that reference nothing but Wain's particular sense of humor. He talked BuzzFeed through some of his favorite clichés of the genre that turn up in the movie.
Lionsgate
No comments:
Post a Comment