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Months ago, when I first saw previews of Together (2025), I thought it looked dull. Something about the movie preview seemed too couple-y, and there was only room in my heart and patience for one rom-com-horror movie this year, and that was Heart Eyes.
However, due to being a Community superfan, I have to see anything and everything with a Community star in it, so I begrudgingly dragged myself to the theater to see Together. Several times before seeing the movie I thought, “I hope this movie doesn’t make me hate Alison Brie”. Truthfully, I wasn’t going to hate her for one bad movie, but I wasn’t expecting to love her more for being in one of my favorite movies of the year.
Best Watched in Theaters
Some movies deserve to be watched on the big screen, and some movies need to be viewed in a crowd, with other humans. Together is one of those movies you should watch with other people, as the colorful crowd made it a unique experience. I contemplated seeing Together in the theater again, just so I could see how differently the crowd reacted.
Shared Shock and Second Hand Stress
There were similar visceral reactions from the crowds I watched The Substance and Together with. Last year, The Substance was one of my favorite movies, but maybe more than the movie itself, I will never forget the crowd’s reactions. During The Substance, along with strange noises (e.g., laughs when nothing was funny, random “ew” and “gross”, coughs, etc.) coming from the crowd at various points during the movie, a man next to me kept making dry heaving noises and keeling over throughout the entire movie. Thankfully he didn’t puke on me, but he provided some gross stress with my movie viewing experience.
Even though I watched Together in a smaller theater, I still heard and saw similar reflexive reactions. A man down the row from me kept loudly emoting throughout the entire movie. His ews and other various random noises (You know, the noises that escape your body when you don’t know how to fully react to a situation? Those noises.) were louder than other folks, but there were several people in the theater who could not hold back. The two women next to me kept looking down the row at the emoting man, and rolling their eyes at him, but they were soon joining in, silently with his dismay. At some point, both the women threw their hands straight into the air at an awkward moment. And as the movie wore on, one of the women slowly curled into a ball, and finished watching the movie between her fingers.
If that reason is not enough to get you to watch Together, then I have a few more:
1. The couple I thought I would hate were humanized in tender, funny, cringe, and humiliating ways.
I’d like to be clear that the main couple in Together should not be a couple we admire as a couple; they very quickly reminded me of every couple I’ve ever known who shouldn’t be together. (Yes, I’m including my many romantic mistakes as well.) I rooted for them to break up and to try to work it out, but either way I was suddenly invested in this relationship I thought I wouldn’t care about.
2. Every detail had a call-back
I love inside jokes and I hate plot devices with loose ends. Countless movies introduce details about characters, the setting, or story that leave me wondering “so what?” These movies never bring these details back in any purposeful manner, which makes a movie longer for no reason. Together, however, is just what it needs to be. Every detail was brought back in a meaningful way that progressed the story, added depth, and sometimes completed in a comical fashion to relieve some of the tension on screen. The jokes felt like inside jokes, so I can’t explain them here – you wouldn’t get it.
3. The story was compelling and I was never board
That may seem like a silly statement, but I often find movies tedious, way too long, and they make me wish I were napping. The entire movie gripped me with something interesting, clever, heartfelt, funny, or cringe, and I was happy with every surprise.
Go see Together. Take your friend(s) who emotes loudly. Take someone you want to break up. Bonus points for taking a couple that needs to break up.
NerdScore
9.4/10
Together (2025) Review
A buoyant, big-hearted crowd-pleaser that balances wit and warmth, Together celebrates the messy joy of figuring life out—solo or side-by-side.
A contemporary romantic dramedy tracing intersecting lives over one transformative summer, where chance encounters and second chances collide.
IMDb
6.8/10
Metacritic
75/100
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman (Actors)
- Michael Shanks (Director) - Michael Shanks (Writer) - Mike Cowap (Producer)
1 Comment
Thanks for the review! I can relate with enjoying the right movie in a theater with an audience. It is one of the reasons I love film festivals, but that “emoting man” would annoy the heck out of me!