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Date Movie (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 77

Fresh: 5

Rotten:72

Average Rating: 2.4/10

Consensus: Memo to would-be parodists: referencing other movies is not the same as satirizing them. Once upon a time, when giants like Airplane! and Top Secret roamed the earth, filmmakers trafficking in the fine art of the spoof would bring a madcap energy to the proceedings; now, simply trotting out a guy in a 'don't vote for Pedro' t-shirt is supposed to leave audiences in stitches.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for continuous crude and sexual humor, including language

Runtime: 85 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Feb 17, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $48,478,234

Synopsis: The twisted minds of two of the six writers of Scary Movie – Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg – skewer the romantic comedy genre in DATE MOVIE, a film for people who love date movies and people... The twisted minds of two of the six writers of Scary Movie – Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg – skewer the romantic comedy genre in DATE MOVIE, a film for people who love date movies and people who hate them. The filmmakers' goal, in their own words: "We wanted to create a romance that women will respond to and a balls-out comedy for the men in the audience." Seltzer and Friedberg tell the story of hopeless romantic Julia Jones, who has finally met the man of her dreams, the very British Grant Funkyerdoder. But before they can have their Big Fat Greek Wedding, they'll have to Meet the Parents; hook-up with The Wedding Planner, and contend with Grant's friend Andy – a spectacularly beautiful woman who wants to put an end to her Best Friend's Wedding. For years, there have been comedies that poked fun at sports films, spy flicks and scary movies. But where, wondered Friedberg and Seltzer, was the romance? The duo sold their first "spoof" screenplay, Spy Hard, just out of college, and a few years later they contributed to the screenplay for the box-office smash Scary Movie. Now, they've set their sights on the romantic comedy genre. "We watched a lot of romantic comedies and thought it would be a genre we could have some fun with," says Aaron Seltzer. Friedberg lays out DATE MOVIE's classic template: "Homely girl next door becomes beautiful, meets a guy, brings him home, parents hate the guy and they go through all the required obstacles." As Seltzer tells it, "We selected memorable scenes from different romantic comedies and from that we created a story on which we could hang lots of spoofing." Their central character is Julia Jones. The moniker is a play on the names of superstar Julia Roberts and fictional character Bridget Jones, and it represents a blend of actor and character that audiences love to watch fall in love. Julia is the heart of DATE MOVIE. "The one thing we know about Julia is that no matter how hard you try to keep her down, you can't crush her spirit," says Seltzer. "She believes in true love, and that's the thing you hang your hat on." --© 20th Century Fox [More]

Starring: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Eddie Griffin, Jennifer Coolidge

Starring: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Eddie Griffin, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, Carmen Electra, Tony Cox, Lil Jon, Valery M. Ortiz, Meera Nara Simhan, Nick Steele

Director: Aaron Seltzer

Director: Aaron Seltzer
Screenwriter: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg
Composer: David Kitay
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Tom Meek
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01/15/08
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

It's loud and obnoxious, but too full of itself to be interesting and not sober enough to be truly offensive. (Unrated)

Full Review Source: DVD Review | comment Comment
07/10/07
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
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far less smart and often less funny than the films it ridicules.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
07/04/07
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

There's nary a laugh to be found in this relentlessly idiotic parody of popular romantic comedies, which manages the difficult feat of seeming overlong at just 80 minutes.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

Looting the key scenes and plot points of hit movies is the bread and butter of spoof comedies, but the script for Date Movie is about as funny as dry white toast.

Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com | comment Comment
01/28/07
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com

More shocking than hilarious, this spoof of the teensploit genre offers just enough funny moments to earn this critic's seal of approval.

Full Review Source: Upstage Magazine | comment 1 Comment
01/05/07
Kam Williams
Upstage Magazine

[Mocks] movies that were much funnier than this one.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
12/26/06
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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...as terrible and slipshod a film as one could ever imagine...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
10/15/06
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Get it? It's just like that one scene you saw in that one movie, but with poop!

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/09/06
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com

Um filme feito por idiotas com a esperança de que seus espectadores também sejam.

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06/11/06
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

The kind of spoof that doesn't so much "poke fun" at its targets as it does "lazily reference" them.

Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | comment Comment
06/07/06
Scott Weinberg
DVD Clinic

It’s a perfect storm of not funny.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment 2 Comments
05/12/06
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

While the premise of a gross-out spoof of such movies may sound like a good idea in theory, it doesn’t make a lot of sense in practice.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
05/06/06
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com

Date Movie still labours under the mistaken impression that exaggerated mimicry alone is enough to entertain.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
Adam Smith
Empire Magazine

Alyson Hannigan deserves better. In fact, we all deserve better than DATE MOVIE, a slow-witted assembly of every date movie joke we've already seen.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
03/04/06
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

Lower your expectations or drink a lot before you watch it.

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03/03/06
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

There's no level of dumb a person can be that's too stupid for Date Movie.

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02/27/06
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Mss Hannigan, who had she not currently been in a hit TV show, might have had her career destroyed by this turkey.

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02/25/06
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
 
 
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