Spoofs have become weak over the last decades. Satirical swipes and lampooning of generic conventions have made way for tasteless toilet humour and irrelevant pop-culture references. Fortunately, it looks as though THEY CAME TOGETHER, the upcoming romantic comedy starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler, may very wellbe the shot in the arm that the genre needs. Judging by this simple clip and the fantastic poster, the comedy focuses on exactly what is being spoofed.
THEY CAME TOGETHER comes from the writers of cult classic WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, David Wain and Michael Showalter. The poster contains the usual quotes from industry personel, only this time they are taken from news articles that state facts. Meanwhile, even David Wain’s press release is absolutely hilarious:
After having already made world-changing cinematic statements on adolescence (Wet Hot American Summer), religion (The Ten), service (Role Models), and community (Wanderlust), I teamed up with Michael Showalter to take on a topic that (to our knowledge) has yet been seen in the movies: ROMANCE — particularly heterosexual romance between two white people. Our next idea was to mix this romance story with humor – so you could almost call this a Romantic-Comedy, so to speak. We first worked with Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd on Wet Hot American Summer. They played summer camp counselors in that movie, so it was obviously hard for us to imagine them playing a shopkeeper and a corporate executive, respectively. But thanks to a team of acting coaches and an award™ winning VFX team, we pulled off the illusion.
THEY CAME TOGETHER will be screened on 24th January at the Sundance Film Festival and stars Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Michael Ian Black, Christopher Meloni, Ken Marino, Max Greenfield, Cobie Smulders, Ed Helms, Melanie Lynsky, Michael Shannon, Jason Mantzoukas, and Michaela Watkins.
Source: Buzzfeed
