| Date Movie (Unrated Edition) | 
 enlarge | Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Sam Hurwitz
Actors: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell (iv), Sophie Monk, Eddie Griffin, Meera Simhan
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
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Running Time: 84
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D2234701D
UPC: 024543247012
EAN: 0024543247012
ASIN: B000F9RLL2
Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 2006
Release Date: May 30, 2006
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Julia jones is looking for love in all the wrong movies until she snags the man of her dreams! but now a devious ex a farting feline & eccentric in-laws threaten her perfect hollywood wedding! Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 02/05/2008 Starring: Alyson Hannigan Run time: 85 minutes Rating: Ur
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Sophomoric is too weak a word by at least half to describe the utter silliness Date Movie revels in at every turn. But that's exactly the point of this effort in lowbrow slapstick that proudly proclaims it was created by two of the six writers of the Scary Movie franchise. Adhering to the same spoof formula of those movie romps, Date Movie lampoons countless other current movie characters and plot themes, plus a few that might be a little old for the core audience of youngsters to remember. Date Movie isn't quite as successful in keeping the gags at the same pace they came in the Scary Movies, but it will certainly satisfy those with a taste for tasteless humor. The wisp of a story involves fat girl Julia Jones, played by Alyson Hannigan, who quickly becomes as thin and pretty as she was in the American Pie movies and on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You'll lose count how many movie references writer/directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer throw in her path as she searches for true love in a world gone mad. Hitch, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Meet the Fockers, King Kong, Lord of the Rings, When Harry Met Sally, Pretty Woman, Bridget Jones' Diary, and Kill Bill, are just a few of the movies that get unkindly homage. There's also plenty of flatulence, mild sexual ribaldry, and the kind of bad taste humor that will utterly delight the pubescent and teenage audience this movie was made for. --Ted Fry
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 Date Movie March 8, 2006
18 out of 28 found this review helpful
"Date Movie" is from two of the six writers of "Scary Movie", and is a spoof of romantic comedies. Apparently, they chose two of the worst writers from "Scary Movie", because the movie falls flat more often than it works. Alyson Hannigan is Julia Jones, the fat girl looking for Mr. Right. Hannigan deserves a better role -- she can be funny, but the material she has to work with is less than stellar. She does what she can, but it is not enough to make "Date Movie" work. The supporting cast of Adam Campbell (the boyfriend), Eddie Griffin (the dad), and Jennifer Coolidge and Fred Willard (the boyfriend's parents do not add much to the film either. "Date Movie" does manage to be pretty gross at times for a PG-13 movie, but that is not really a selling point either. This will be enjoyed by some, but only mildly. It is not awful, but it is far from great. Wait for the DVD if you must see it.
The new parody May 4, 2006
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
There was a time when parody was more insightful. While this type of film has never been known to be subtle, a good parody should know its framework and make humor based on it. A good parody winks at the audience while also reveling in some exagerations.
Like fellow reviewers here have said, to simply take the plot from a movie and exagerate it does not equal parody. There is nothing subtle about this film, at all. The only humorous parts of the film are seen in the trailers. The majority of everything else can be skipped.
If you're expecting the so-called "unrated" edition to fill in the missing pieces and hope that it makes the film better, be warned. Whenever a PG-13 film becomes unrated, it normally means there were maybe one scene, one instance or so that caused it to touch the R rating and so that one scene, joke, word, or what have you was taken out. Still standing at around 85 minutes, this film won't be changed much. And, really, that's one minute more of your life wasted.
Speaking of a waste, I'd rather waste my time watching the movies emulated here or watch Not Another Teen Movie (and that's saying something) than watch this.
 How to Lose an Audience in 10 Days February 27, 2006
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I enjoy spoof movies. I've seen "Airplane" a million times, the Scary Movie franchise still makes me laugh, and the "Naked Gun" films were inspired and fresh. Heck, even "Not Another Teen Movie" had its funny moments.
This film, on the other hand, simply falls flat. I think the writers forgot that to make a spoof, they had to do more than just menetion the movie they are spoofing, or at least make the spoof moment somewhat satirical and entertaining. It's like they made a list of all the films they wanted to make fun of and then couldn't come up with ways to make them funny.
Examples:
1) We need to spoof Pretty Woman! Let's have the male star dress up as a hooker and walk down Melrose in a flashback sequence! Wait a minute, huh? Why is the male star imitating a female prostitute again?
2) We need to spoof Meet the Parents! I know, let's have the goofy Ben Stiller character knock down the urn with the mother's ashes in it, only THIS time, we'll have an entire dead body spill out of the urn instead of ashes. Oh that will be a hoot! And THEN we'll have the cat go and french kiss the dead body instead of pee on it. That's hysterical!
3) We need to spoof Kill Bill!! (Wait... what? Is that even a date movie?)
4) We need to spoof Hitch. I know! Let's have a dwarf play some guy named Hitch who gives love advice to our lead female. Hysterical!
5) We need to spoof When Harry Met Sally. I have a great idea. For no reason at all, we'll start a dinner scene with our male star faking an orgasm (ridiculously I might add). He won't be trying to prove a point or anything, he'll just be wailing around like a dying seal for no reason at all at the beginning of the scene. That will get a huge laugh.
6) We need to spoof My Big Fat Greek Wedding. So let's have our female be a member of a huge family, and we'll have her father be a black man and her mother be Indian. That's too much humor right there folks.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. This movie doesn't hit the same, satirical notes that better spoof movies do. It just succeeds in mentioning a bunch of date movies and making you feel sick to your stomach while at the same time feeling confused. I guess that's worth ONE star....
This Movie Was Horrible February 18, 2006
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I hate to steal something from someone else's review, but I can't sum up the problem with this movie any better than Eric D. Snider of ErikDSnider.com: "This would-be spoof of romantic comedies falls prey to the misconception -- common in modern American humor -- that to make reference to something is the same thing as parodying it."
Because that is precisely what Date Movie does. It simply references movies without actually parodying them.
The sad thing is, the funniest scene in the movie, is the opening sequence where Allison Hannigan, sporting the obligatory fat suit as they "parody" Jack Black's Shallow Hal, dances around in the streets to Kelis' sexy tune "Milkshake." Which incidentally is also the trailer. Everything goes downhill from there.
The general gist of the film is Alyson Hannigan, a Greek, Indian, Japanese, Black Jew is having trouble finding her "Prince Charming", quite obviously because she is not the most beautiful of women. Her father (played by Eddie Griffin) wants her to marry someone who is of her same descent, and somehow manages to have someone in mind: a greasy disgusting employee of their restaurant named Nicky who's so dirty he's got a rat in his ass crack. But Julia (Alyson's character) refuses. She insists she has to wait for true love--her prince charming. And she finds him--kind of.
She meets a guy who's eating in the restaurant and she feels like they have a connection, but as soon as she turns her back he disappears--she assumes because of the way she looks but it's really because she hit him in the head with a coffeepot and he fell to the ground. You're laughing, right? Yeah, I didn't either.
So she goes to Hitch, (subtle, right?) a matchmaker played by little person Tony Cox (Bad Santa) who takes her to get "pimped out" ("parodying" MTV's Pimp My Ride). They wax her back hair, saw down her toe nails, and suck out her fat. Julia is now a beautiful girl. Eventually she finds Grant (played by newcomer Adam Campbell), they fall in love, have sex, get engaged, and antics ensue.
One of the biggest problems with Date Movie even before anyone wrote a single word of it onto a page, is simply the concept itself. The Scary Movie movies (which I love, by the way) work because they're making fun of movies that were meant to be taken seriously. It doesn't quite work when you're trying to make something funny that was already funny in the first place. There's no need to make a joke out of a romantic comedy--it does the jokes for you--IN the film.
With that said, there was still a possibility for a half way decent film here. The obstacle being: the jokes just went too far. In almost every scene in the movie, they'd make a joke--I'd laugh, and them expect them to move on. But they didn't. They'd just keep going with the same joke for another 2 minutes, going way overboard to point of ridiculousness, and I'd sit there getting annoyed and feeling patronized, which would immediately make me forget that a second ago I was actually laughing. Just make the jokes a bit more subtle (we get them, trust us), and you'd be fine.
Case in point: In one scene where they try to make fun of the Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy The Wedding Planner, Julia and Grant go see a wedding planner whimsically named Jello who has a ghetto Spanish accent and has a ridiculously large ass. We all immediately get the joke. It's supposed to be Jennifer Lopez...and Jennifer Lopez has a big ass. It's funny. Okay, move on with the scene. Jello them describes to them what she has planned for their wedding and says "I have a performer in mind too". She knocks the desk over with her oversized butt, the desk breaks, she strips off her suit to reveal a skimpy gold outfit, and then starts shaking her ass in Julia and Grant's faces, slowly moving it closer and closer to them while they scream in horror. The scene ends.
Yeah...I'm not laughing either.
The film makes fun of dozens of movies, When Harry Met Sally, The Wedding Planner, Meet The Parents, Meet The Fockers, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Hitch, My Best Friend's Wedding, and many others. And again, unlike the Scary Movie films, they failed to weave the different films together into one script successfully. Everything seems choppy and shabbily put together. It's almost embarassing.
Basically, Date Movie is in no way worth the 10.75 (at least that's what it is here in Manhattan). It attempts to make fun of many popular romantic comedies of the past two decades, but unfortunately for the filmmakers, I much prefer the originals.
Alyson Hannigan finally gets to be the lead in a movie and it is a bad movie June 7, 2006
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I checked out "Date Movie" because it stars Alyson Hannigan. For years when I touted "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as the best show on television people told me it must be because I thought Sarah Michelle Gellar was hot. I always said she was okay, but the one I liked was Alyson Hannigan as Willow because she was smart, cute and funny, a rare combination (for example, Tina Fey is on the short list). Her limited success in movies is based on what happened in "American Pie," where she had the funniest two lines, the second of which ("Same my name..."), was an ad-lib. Hannigan has been the female lead in a movie that opened #1 at the box office ("American Wedding"), but while she has found another good television role as Lily on "How I Met Your Mother," her movie career is floundering. Her next gig is voice work for the mocumentary "Farce of the Penguins," which actually might be a step up given her first leading role in "Date Movie."
I compare "Date Movie" to "Airplane!", the film that remains the standard by all such kitchen sink comedies need to be judged, and the obvious difference is that with "Airplane!" just knowing the genre is enough to get all of the jokes in the movie. But with "Date Movie," like with the "Scary Movie" franchise, you really need to have seen all of the movies it is parodizing. We start off with Hannigan in a fat suit ("Shallow Hall"), keeping up with her diary ("Bridget Jones's Diary"), standing on a subway grate ("The Seven Year Itch"), working in her family restaurant ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding"), and going to see a matchmaker ("Hitch"). She then meets the man of her dreams on a TV reality show ("The Bachelor"), eat at A Restaurant ("When Harry Met Sally"), and since his last name turns out to be Funkyerdoder the primary template for this movie ends up being "Meet the Fockers." Somehow, making a sequel the template strikes me as a major mistake, even if one of the few times I actually laughed (mom in the urn on the mantle), came in this segment. But if you did not really find a movie that was supposed to be a comedy all that funny, then trying to do a parody of it is just not worth the effort.
The movie also works in "My Best Friend's Wedding," "Pretty Woman," "Kill Bill: Volume 1," "Kill Bill: Volume 2," "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "American Pie," "Say Anything," "Jerry Maguire," "Notting Hill," "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," "What Women Want," "The Wedding Planner," "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," "Wedding Crashers," "Napoleon Dynamite," "Sleepless in Seattle," "The 40-Year Old Virgin," "Girls Gone Wild," and "King Kong" make it into the mix as well. I think they took on "Grey's Anatomy" as well, but I might be wrong. Consequently, you do not really have a movie that is a comic twist on a romantic comedy, but more something that demands you "Name That Film" for your viewing pleasure rather than actually enjoying the humor. As we all know, the movie was made by two of the six writers of the "Scary Movie" movies, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, and the nicest thing to say would be that the other four writers can proudly point to NOT having worked on "Date Movie" when they cover their resumes in job interviews. If the amount of time devoted to a joke is an indication of what these two guys think is funny, then the comedic highpoint of their film has to be the cat going to the bathroom. However, I would hope most viewers would not consider that the funniest scene in the film.
The fault does not lie with the cast, although the script does not take advantage of Hannigan's comedic talents anywhere near what it should. Tony Cox as mini-Hitch steals most of his scenes and Sophie Monk as Andy milks her scenes for what they are worthy. But Eddie Griffin and Fred Willard as the fathers of the couple are basically treading water and Adam Campbell as Grant Funkyerdoder creates no chemistry whatsoever with our heroine. I was almost tempted to round up on this film because of all of the DVD extras. There are a dozen deleted, extended and alternate scenes (i.e., evidence the film could have been even worse). Andy's poolside extended dailies, audition tapes, and a FOX Movie Channel featurette on "Making a Spoof." You also get three commentary tracks: the first by Seltzer and Friedberg; the second with Hannigan, Campbell, Monk, and Cox; and the third an "Anti-Commentary" by critics Scott Foundas and Bob Strauss. That last one almost tipped the scales, but then there is "The Quickie," which does the entire film in six minutes. The fact that version made it almost tolerable really hit me as adding insult to injury, and when you add optional laugh track you have a tacit admission that the film needs it without the explicit apology for putting us (and Hannigan) through something so lame.
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