![]() They break up, Molly sleeps with a nerd at Joel’s office and then turns up at her own wedding altar dressed like Groucho Marx. When Joel drives to the country to meet Molly’s parents they turn out to be Nazis. None of this makes one bit of sense and only drags out the movie long enough to stir up some business at the outrageously overpriced concession stand.īut wait. Poehler’s Parks and Recreation cohort Adam Scott and John Stamos from Full House as sound engineers. At one point they interrupt the movie and play themselves in real life, checking out a recording session with Norah Jones for the movie soundtrack, with Ms. They slog their way through the typical New York falling-in-love montage-rolling in the autumn leaves, juggling oranges, playing touch football in Central Park. In a script labored to the point of desperation, they talk about Communism, pap smears, Pokémon pajamas, bedtime masturbation, the Brooklyn Heights promenade and yoga vs. But the beat goes on in a frantic attempt to stretch a 60-second idea hatched in a routine Monday morning Hollywood conference-room barnstorming session into an 83-minute movie that goes nowhere. Molly owns a small, whimsical candy shop, unaware that Joel is a corporate raider assigned to close her down to make room for a big super store across the street that will run her out of business. They meet cute when they both show up at the same Halloween party dressed like Benjamin Franklin, and the movie intends to keep the parody going, even if it means making it up scene by scene. Instead of doing what most sane people would do and run for the exit, Joel craves more self-abuse. In either scenario, I want a lemon chocolate loaf, but it must be shrink-wrapped and more importantly, it must smell more like lemon than chocolate.” If they can’t heat it up, then leave half the poppy seeds in and sprinkle the other half of the poppy seeds on half of a blueberry muffin and then cut both halves in half and throw them both away. They can take out the poppy seeds and heat it up. “I’ll have a low-fat sugar-free banana yogurt muffin,” she says, “but if they don’t have that, I’ll have half a poppy seed muffin. To prove his point, there’s a madly contrived flashback to one of their earliest dates for coffee. Molly sees Joel as “handsome but in a non-threatening way, vaguely but not overtly Jewish.” He sees Molly as the kind of cute, klutzy girl that can drive you a little bit crazy. The entire movie is told over a boring dinner as they attempt to recreate their interminable, cliché-riddled story for another couple (TV veterans Bill Hader and Ellie Kemper). Rudd and Amy Poehler (the only bright spot on TV’s Parks and Recreation) play Joel and Molly. Starring: Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler and Bill Hader So it was imperitive for us to keep it short and well structured.Written by: Michael Showalter and David Wain One thing we’ve observed over the years is that no matter how funny a movie is, it tends to dip at a certain point if it goes on too long and/or the story isn’t compelling. Yes it’s a very hard process to hit the right tone in a comedy of this sort. There are more than 30 deleted scenes on the DVD – and that’s not even all of them – to give you an idea of how much we cut out. What have we missed out on that’s sat in outtakes somewhere? And how hard is to edit a film that’s pulling the leg of a genre? It’s a brief cut you’ve come up with, something that flies in the face of many conventional comedies. So when Old Soul (the recent NBC pilot produced & co-written by Poehler) came around, I expressed interest in directing it and Amy & Co. This is one reason why so many Wet Hot alums (Rudd, Poehler, Meloni, Black, Marino) are in They Came Together. So since the cast of Wet Hot was there anyway, we gathered many of them together to do a casual audience reading of They Came Together, which was a screenplay Michael Showalter and I had written years before, but had put on the shelf. ![]() The first time I worked with her was on my first movie Wet Hot American Summer and we staged a “radio show” version of that movie at the San Francisco Sketchfest in 2012. I’ve known Amy since she arrived with her group Upright Citizens Brigade in New York in the mid ’90’s. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone had their own personal De Niro? For me I’m just lucky to have someone who’s such a great actor and who’s so great to work with also repeatedly agree to be in my movies! He really is such a smart funny talented guy I’d happily do many more with him.ĭid working with Amy Poehler on this one lead into Old Soul? How did she come to They Came Together?
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