Together (2025) takes a clever premise about romantic codependence and pushes it into body horror, pairing real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie as partners who cannot let go even when their bodies tell them otherwise. Tim (Franco) leans hard on Millie (Brie) for everything from money to basic life skills, and their move from the city to the countryside exposes every fault line. He is an underemployed musician. She is an elementary school teacher trying to prove herself in a new job. The stress and isolation sharpen Tim’s anxieties and bring on disorienting visions of his mother and his father’s decaying corpse, which plants the film’s queasy tone long before the grotesque turn.
A hiking mishap drops them into a cave, and they wake to find their legs inexplicably fused. The shock fades, then the fusing spreads, then Millie is reduced to sawing through conjoined limbs in a desperate bid to keep them independent.
Michael Shanks stages these milestones with commitment and a knack for timing, and Franco and Brie sell the gag with openhearted physical comedy and a prickly intimacy that feels uncomfortably lived in. The movie is not as gory as its reputation suggests, but it does get under your skin, especially in the stretches that linger on the practical discomforts of becoming one person against your will.
The problem is tone and texture. Together wants to be a dark relationship comedy and a straight-faced fable about unhealthy attachment, and the clash can feel clumsy. When the transformation accelerates, the digital effects look goopy and weightless in a way that undercuts the seriousness of what the film is saying. A late twist involving Millie’s coworker Jamie (Damon Herriman) lands with a thud, adding lore the story does not need and draining momentum from the finale.
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There are sharp ideas here, and the central duo makes them playable. Shanks finds plenty of punchlines in the day-to-day logistics of a couple literally stuck together, and the metaphor is clear without being coy. The execution is not as steady. Together is thoughtful, gross in the right ways, and occasionally very funny, yet it also gets tangled in its own conceit and never quite marries its sincere themes to its kookier instincts. A good watch with caveats, especially for fans of Alison Brie and Dave Franco who are curious to see their chemistry pushed to weirder, stickier places.
Score: 6/10
Together (2025)
- Cast: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman
- Director: Michael Shanks
- Genre: Horror, Romance
- Runtime: 101 minutes
- Rated: R
- Release Date: July 30, 2025
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