Date Movie (2006)

Director:

Aaron Seltzer

Writers (WGA):

Jason Friedberg (written by) &
Aaron Seltzer (written by)

Release Date:

17 helmikuu 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Everyone wants a happy ending.

Plot:

Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man (Campbell), his crush (Hannigan), his parents (Coolidge, Willard), and her father (Griffin).

Plot Keywords:

Wedding Planner | Overweight | Spoof | Greek | Fantasy Sequence

Awards:

1 win

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Alyson Hannigan	...	Julia Jones
Adam Campbell	...	Grant Funkyerdoder
Sophie Monk	...	Andy
Eddie Griffin	...	Frank Jones
Meera Simhan	...	Linda Jones
Fred Willard	...	Bernie Funkyerdoder
Jennifer Coolidge	...	Roz Funkyerdoder
Marie Matiko	...	Betty
Judah Friedlander	...	Nicky
Carmen Electra	...	Anne
Tony Cox	...	Hitch
Mauricio Sanchez	...	Eduardo / Housekeeper
Beverly Polcyn	...	Old Cat Woman
Valery M. Ortiz	...	Jell-O (as Valery Ortiz)
Charlie Dell	...	Justice of the Peace (as Charles Dell)

Also Known As:

Untitled Aaron Seltzer/Jason Friedberg Project (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for continuous crude and sexual humor, including language.

Runtime:

83 min | 85 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA | Switzerland

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Australia:M | Ireland:15A | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:12A | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Sweden:7 | Philippines:R-18 | Malaysia:18PL | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42128) | Finland:K-15 | Brazil:12 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | USA:Unrated (DVD) | Germany:12 | Hungary:16 | Norway:11 | Italy:T | Argentina:13 | UK:15 (video rating) | Iceland:14 | Germany:12 (unrated version) | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

New Regency Pictures

Trivia:

According to the cast commentary, the woman pictured in the ad for the reality show that Julia goes onto is Alyson Hannigan's stunt double.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: At the end of a movie when Andy is thrown down the stairs you can see her body padding under her shirt.

Quotes:

Frank Jones: I was wrong about Grant. He's really a nice guy. He even liked you when you were butt-ugly.
Julia Jones: How do you...?
Frank Jones: I saw it in your flashback.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

Soundtrack:

Good Life

Just when you thought Hollywood has reached an all time low, you get "Date Movie."

"Date Movie" is a movie that spoofs romantic comedies. The movie follows Julia Jones (Alyson Hannigan) as she goes through all the events that take place in order to marry her prince Grant (Adam Campbell). This process involves meeting the parents, breaking up, meeting the ex-girlfriend, planning the wedding and everything else that the romantic comedy genre has thrown our way. Laughs are supposed to ensue…

Just when you thought Hollywood has reached an all time low comes "Date Movie," a movie that proves that anything can be made into a film in Hollywood and no matter how bad something is people will dish out their hard earned money to see it. "Date Movie" is by far the worst pile of crap I have seen in several years and can possibly go down in the history of film as being one of the worst movies ever made.

This movie contained zero laughs, none of the spoofs were even remotely funny. It was an insult to anyone who dished out any kind of money to see this film. The saddest part about all of this is that I knew before seeing this movie that it was going to be bad but I didn't think it could ever be as bad as it actually was. All the jokes fell flat and half way through its groundbreaking 75 minute running time I wanted to find a way to end my life so I wouldn't have to sit through another second of this horrid movie.

There really isn't a positive thing I can say about this movie. The first question that comes to mind though is who the hell came up with the idea. Why spoof comedies? Comedies are already funny so why spoof them? This is a question I wondered when I first heard about the movie and now after seeing "Date Movie" I know it can't be done and shouldn't even be attempted. While "Date Movie" only runs 75 minutes they try to spoof everything they can including Bridget Jones's Diary, Kill Bill, Say Anything, My Best Friend's Wedding, Napoleon Dynamite, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Hitch, The Bachelor, Meet the Parents, Sleepless in Seattle, Rize, King Kong, Wedding Planner and so many more. You would think that one joke would work but in all honesty not a single one did. You just sit there staring at the screen, losing your brain cells, and wondering how on earth someone got money to produce this pile of garbage.

I guess you should know that a movie is really bad when it's not screened for critics and the trailer tries to sell you a movie by saying "from 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie" but there is always that small part of me that says it can't be as bad as it looks but in this case it's worse than it looks. It's a train wreck and if anyone finds this movie funny I am sorry but there must be something seriously wrong with you or you are just so incredibly immature.

This movie took 2 people to write and two people to direct. If I ever meet Jason Friedberg or Aaron Seltzer the writers and directors behind this crap I will demand that they give me my $6.75 back for paying to see this movie. These guys have no right what so ever to make a movie when they put out a movie like "Date Movie." There should be a law in Hollywood that if your movie is hated by both critics and audiences alike that you should be placed in a cell and beaten until you write everyone who watched your film a huge letter of apology. I really wonder what crap can come out of Hollywood next that can be worse than this film.

So to sum it up, "Date Movie" sucks, plain and simple. Even if you see it with little or no expectations you will be disappointed. I despise everyone who was involved with this movie from the entire cast who somehow read this script and said this is going to be good to the interns who didn't walk off the set after the first day of shooting. Why is it that we have to suffer through movies that are this bad? And Hollywood wonders why ticket sales are going down because when you pay $6-$10 to see a movie like "Date Movie" I can totally understand why people aren't going and would be leery of what Hollywood puts out. This is the worst film to come out of Hollywood in years even worse than "Gigli," "Batman and Robin" and "You Got Served."

MovieManMenzel's final rating for "Date Movie" is a 0 out of ten. This movie doesn't even deserve a 1 because nothing worked at all and people shouldn't have to be tortured like this when they see a movie.