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| Director
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Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
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| Starring
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Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell,
Fred Willard |
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| The plot of
Date Movie |
A spoof of romantic comedies that follows a young
guy's (Campbell) attempt to get his crush (Hannigan)
to love him. |
Date Movie
Review
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Review by Jake
Wilson:
The dismaying thing
about this spoof of chick flicks is the total lack of
satirical perspective: you can't really do irony while
assuming the audience knows and cares about nothing
beyond a few hit romantic comedies and some recent fads
approved by focus groups (Napoleon Dynamite, krumping...bumfights?).
You can feel the film getting more out-of-date as you
watch it: maybe we'll all meet again next year for the
sequel, but with a whole new set of memories.In the
meantime, some sample jokes. Alyson Hannigan does a
dance in a fat suit. Her character is named "Julia
Jones" and writes in a diary labelled "Julia
Jones' Diary". A Greek restaurant is advertised
by a sign that shows a man tongue-kissing a sheep. Julia
goes to see a "date doctor" named Hitch, who
turns out to be the dwarf from Bad Santa. Julia's fiancé
is named Grant Fonckyerdoder. At a family dinner, Julia
is told that Grant lost his virginity to the family
housekeeper, who turns out to be a man. Fred Willard
and Jennifer Coolidge imitate Dustin Hoffman and Barbara
Streisand. An old lady tongue-kisses her cat..more..
Review By Joshua Tyler:
Date Movie plays as if the worst two of the six writers
of Scary Movie scribbled it down on the back of a cocktail
napkin while on the way from their hotel to the set.
It sets out to apply Scary Movie's horror parody formula
to rom-coms, and in doing so comes up with something,
believe it or not, worse.It's worse because while Scary
Movie took serious films and tried to make them funny,
Date Movie takes already funny movies and makes them
completely unfunny. I'm sure that's not what they were
going for; the idea is of course to make them even funnier.
But there's no hope of doing that, when you're working
with the two worst of the six writers of Scary Movie.
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer aren't up to outdoing
Jay Roach, let alone Rob Reiner.Because this is another
one of those horrible parody movies, there's not really
a story. Instead there's a loose assortment of skits,
which were presumably created based on a list of the
highest grossing romantic comedies in the past decade
or two. Those skits are then randomly stitched together
with a hackneyed rom-com plot powered by Alyson Hannigan
alternating between fat suit and teeny black dress..More..
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