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Date Movie (Unrated Edition)

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This movie is almost too easy a target, and I don't want to spend much time on it as the essence of this film has been captured effectively by many, many other reviewers. At heart, "Date Movie" is just a bit of silliness--it has no ambition, no goals other than to showcase its preposterous spoofs. Truth be told, I usually don't mind silly escapist fun--as long as a picture knows it's not very good, you can't really hold anything else against it. My issue with "Date Movie," thus, is more complex. Movies like "Scary Movie" or "Airplane!" have done a great job skewering other films and pop culture icons--but the primary difference between those films and "Date Movie" is that they frame their spoofs and gags around an actual plot.

My irritation with "Date Movie" comes from its absolute laziness in not even attempting to tell a story. Heck, it doesn't even fake it. No, apparently the sheer delight at seeing someone in a fat suit is supposed to carry us through an entire film. The gags are so random--and don't get me wrong, you might chuckle occasionally--they end up making no sense whatsoever. Have we gotten so jaded that we don't even expect a rudimentary storyline? It's sight gag, after sight gag, after sight gag--with a sound gag thrown in for variety. And it's not even as if these jokes are clever. By shooting at the easiest pop culture targets and liberally adding unnecessary bodily function humor--it's as if the filmmakers expected us to lap all their "hilarious" antics up.

There are talented people in the cast. Surely Alyson Hannigan (a star of the small screen) deserves better. But at least she, and the others, are game and throw themselves into the proceedings--but to little affect. If I wanted to see sketches and skits with no connection, however, I'd watch SNL or MadTV (which might actually be more entertaining). "Date Movie" misadvertises itself in the title--there is no movie here! Normally, like I said, I wouldn't judge an inoffensive bit of nonsense like this so harshly--but this negative review goes out to all the creative screenwriters who couldn't get decent projects greenlit due to this example of filmmaking by committee. KGHarris, 02/07.

I normally don't write movie reviews because movies are very subjective but in this case, I'll make an exception. I had the misfortune of watching this movie, as I'm a fan of "dumb comedies" but this one fails. On every level. Do not waste your time with this one...TRUST ME ON THIS. It is so bad; I don't even know where to begin.

Skip it.

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.

With most movies, I'm pretty reasonable. I try to give them a chance. One of my frieds wanted to see it, so my girlfriend and I went with him. After watching this movie, I felt I could have wiped my A#S with my $8.75 instead of sitting through this abortion of a movie.

I know that spoof movies are supposed to be stupid and funny, but this movie was heavy in stupid, and very light in funny. I've never heard a theater so quiet in a comedy. I think I only heard chuckles during three parts in the movie. The writers just tried too hard to be funny. The movie might have been better if they had concentrated on a few movies and used acting to make it funny, instead of watching a fake cat taking a crap on a toilet. And even that could have been funny if they hadn't made the segment a couple of minutes long.

I compare this movie with what a guy from our high school did for a talent show. He thought it would be funny to put on a penguin suit and waddled around to classical music. Maybe funny in premise, but turned out to be the most akward and stupid three minutes I've watched.

Now take that three minutes of stupidity, multiply it by 30, and you have "Date Movie." The only saving grace of this movie is that it's short.

This by far has to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. And damn, I'm in Iraq. We dont get a chance to buy many movies here, so I thought this would give me a good laugh. HAHA, there is the laugh. The comedy comes with the fact that this is supposed to be funny. Anyway, If I have helped at least on person from buying this putrid, piece of cinematic stupidity, then I have been successful. I would have rated this lower but there is no rating below 1 star.

One of the reasons I watched "Date Movie" is Alyson Hannigan, star of "American Pie" and "Buffy, the Vampure Slayer." And I am a fan of parody movies since the days of masterpieces like "Airplane!" But what I found here is only half-baked jokes, or not even jokes, just references to other better films and of-screen news about celebrities like Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton.

I agree with most of the reviewers who found "Date Movie" very unfunny. The film contains jokes that are silly, sexual and gross, three major components that are visible in the recent trend of spoofs, but I don't mind if jokes are silly, sexual and gross. I love them. I watched "Borat" which has all of these three, and there are lots of them (plus politically incorrect jokes) and I enjoyed the film very much.

What is most disappointing about "Date Movie" - and the most irritating thing about it - is its laziness. The filmmakers go from one gag to another without developing it. Each joke is not big or clever (including references to "Brigit Jones's Diary," Darth Vader, clown dance (with the soundtrack from "The Rize," etc) and there is nothing more to that. The film moves on to the next one, trying to find a new target which is not necessarily date movie. Sometimes it does the same joke over and over again. The prolonged "cat-in-the-bathroom" joke is unbearable.

I almost forgot to mention the star of the film Alyson Hannigan. Sure, she is game, fun to watch, ready to do whatever she has to do (including embarrassingly unfunny dancing in fat suit and a huge zit). And she is sadly wasted.

After I saw the first two "Scary Movies" I decided too see this movie. I thought the Wayans brothers were the two writers, but I can see that I was wrong. This movie is a spoof with no plot and no good jokes. I could hardly understand anything in this movie at all without giving my self a headache! I myself, a teen, which this movie appealed too did not find this funny. I don't know why teens like this movie so much.
-Ben Russell

Ok, first things first, if you don't like goofy comedy, don't watch this, but if you loved Mel Brooks goofy movies, naked gun, etc. You will probably like this movie. I have already watched it twice, once by myself, and the second time with two other people. We all thought it was funny and had a blast trying to figure out the spoofs, so far we came up with the fockers, Mr + Mrs Smith, the wedding planner, Pimp my ride, Star Wars, Kill Bill, The paris hilton Carl's Jr commercial mixed in with Jessica Simpson's music video (not a fan of Jessica Simpson, so do not remember the song, just remember the music video came out right after the Movie about the dukes of hazzard) any it's goofy, parts might make ya cringe, but I still laughed all the way through it. I am glad I got the DVD instead of watching it on pay per view on tv, the extra features are good especially the alternate/deleted scenes.

Whoah! What a rush! I've just spent 83 minutes of my life trying to identify the movies, music, TV shows and even advertisements spoofed by this stinker. There's a story in there somewhere, about a young white woman of mixed ethnic background who undergoes an extreme makeover to win the bachelor of her dreams, but it's kinda hard to find underneath the pile of gross drivel attempting to pass for humor.

Supposedly a spoof on romantic comedies, the movie focuses on Meet the Fockers (another stinker), with supporting gags from Hitch, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Bridget Jones' Diary, Shallow Hal, Wedding Crashers, The Wedding Planner, Sleepless in Seattle, Pretty Woman, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, and When Harry Met Sally, among many, many others.

When it's through with the comedies, it takes on Kill Bill, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings, Napoleon Dynamite, The Bird Cage, Dodgeball, the song Milkshake by Kelis, Candy Shop by 50 Cent, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, Michael Jackson, The Bachelor, Pimp My Ride, Paris Hilton, Taco Bell, Best Buy, and even Girls Gone Wild.

It would take an expert on pop culture (or a very bored person with a lot of time on their hands) to identify all the parodied and lampooned subjects in this movie, which admittedly has quite a few chuckles, but far too many gross-out scenes are too prolonged to be anything other than mind-blowingly bad moments on film.

Consider this movie a pop-culture quiz and see how you fare, but be warned - you'll need to park your good taste at the door, and we can't be held responsible for its safety. Enter at your own risk, and may the farce be with you.


Amanda Richards, June 24, 2006

This is a movie about a big girl who gets 'made over' and becomes thin, finds love and lives happily ever after. It's a spoof on romantic comedies, sort of like "Scary Movie" is a spoof on horror movies but this was not nearly as funny. I didn't like this movie. It tried hard to be funny but it wasn't. It was just a yawner! It relied on cheap, stereotypical and often sexist jokes and tired parodies which will be forgotten in a few years and be even less funny. I wasn't deeply offended by this movie but I disliked the way it objectified women (i.e. showing a fat girl going to a body shop like a car to get made skinny and the super hot ex-girlfriend who looks and acts slutty and the boyfriend who thinks it's appropriate to have his ex hang all over him) I am fine with sex and nudity in movies but I didn't like the message behind this film. It was mindless and painful to watch and made me uncomfortable. I happen to be young and thin and generally have a good sense of humor about sexist jokes but something about this movie just left me with a yucky feeling! I feel like this movie insulted my intelligence. There are plenty of things in this world which make young women feel bad about the way they look and it's generally not a quality I look for in a so-called comedy! This is funny if you are male and under the age of 16 and even then, this movie might be a bit overboard!