Date Movie (2006)

This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen! People who have written negative reviews must not have a sense of humor or they are so politically correct that they cannot laugh anymore. The actors were outstanding, particularly Alyson Hannigan and Eddie Griffin. The humor is quite bawdy, true, but I like movies that are just plain silly, so if you like the airplane movies, or the police squad movies or the scary movies series or The Three Stooges then you will love this movie. I have seen it several times and it still makes me laugh so hard that I have tears in my eyes. I highly recommend this fine viewing experience to anyone who wants to have a seriously hard laugh. Pay particular attention to the basketball scene, the girl with the fat butt, the removal of blubber, Eddie Griffin's eyebrows, and the cat. Don't let the stuffed shirts who gave negative reviews of this movie stop you, I guarantee you will laugh throughout the entire movie!!! And that's why I give it highest marks 10 stars!!!!

Julia Jones (Alyson Hannigan) is a fatty and hopelessly undateable. Her father (Eddie Griffin) urges her to find a man. She falls for Grant Fockyerdoder but knocks him out cold. She gets the help of incompetent dating expert Hitch (Tony Cox). She goes on a reality TV show and finds that Grant is the bachelor. They get together but she can't shake his best friend Andy (Sophie Monk).This movie is unrelenting in spoofing every movie and TV show. Alyson Hannigan holds my attention for a little while. However the plot is little more than an excuse to jam in one reference after another. I get bored after 20 minutes. Adam Campbell is not a particularly good comic actor. The jokes aren't particularly good.

It isn't a spoof, it's just a repeat of many better films. It's quite disgusting how far these movies have come. It can't even stay within it's own parameters, suddenly "spoofing" Pimp My Ride and other TV shows. It's an embarrassing film to be caught in and luckily Hannigan escaped to greener pastures. Campbell is actually a rather good actor, and he doesn't let on how bad he must know the film is. He puts in a lot of effort to something that is overall crap. The most telling scene of spastic stupidity comes from the Meet the Parents scene. It takes the jokes FROM that film and repeats them in exaggerated ways that suck out all of the humour.

People really need to realize that in order for a parody to be good, it has to be cheesy and in other words, bad. I know it's a paradox, but that is the only genre it is actually applied to. I was surprised to see the average rating of all newer parody stuff on IMDb: Date Movie, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, Vampires Suck, etc. They all have 2.something average rating and it's mostly because people are not well informed on the whole concept of this genre.For a parody to be successful, it has to take elements from real life and/or movies/other media that are seemingly serious, but cheesy, little overrated, over the top, inaccurate, ignorant, full of prejudice... etc. So, the good mocking of this just HAS to go a bit further to make the vague inaccuracies more obvious and laughable. I think that this movie succeeded in that. Everything that is bad or over the top is INTENDED to be so, hence, planned and I like it.Alyson Hannigan and Adam Campbell have good chemistry and acting skills and I enjoyed their performances very much. Adam is an underrated actor and he needs more recognition overall. Also, the cast is full of talented parody performers, like Jennifer Coolidge, Eddie Griffin and Tony Cox.For anyone who doesn't particularly find romantic comedies good, and considers them cheesy and overrated, this is the film. It's particular 'victims' are precisely romantic comedies, mostly My Best Friend's Wedding, Meet the Fockers, Wedding Planner, Hitch, Bridget Jones' Diary, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and most wedding films.Alyson Hanigan's character is named Julia Jones, parody of Bridget Jones and Julia Roberts, and Adam Campbell plays Grant Fockyourdaughter, parody of Hugh Grant and Fockers. Sophie Monk's character is parody of Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding and typical 'bitch' characters, Tony Cox is Hitch, Julia's family is mostly parody of My Big Fat Greek Wedding family with all national prejudice in it. All the characters are hilarious and deliver their puns on time. I was laughing all the time, it's so on spot about all romantic clichés. The moment at the end, with all the most cheesy love declarations ever is my favorite, I can't restrain from laughing hard at that point.Also the films contains Jinxters, the most disgusting cat you just have to LOVE! Let's just mention he doesn't restrain from gerentophilia and necrophilia. His scenes are so disgustingly nauseous, but one of the funniest ever! I will probably never get tired of watching this and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves good laughter and mocking romantic clichés.It's 9/10 in everything it was supposed to be no matter what critic say!