Date Movie

Pros: funny in spots, Alyson Hannigan
Cons: Supporting cast not quite up to par, lots of toilet humor, short on plot

Well this is what we have come to when it involves movies of parody. Date Movie is the latest attempt to work off of all the great moments of other films, and turn then into something humorous that will get a quick laugh. That quick laugh isn't ...

Pros: It ends.
Cons: How can one parody a genre that is already close to self-parody?

Ever since the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team took a 1950s aircraft-in-peril movie titled Zero Hour and skewered its melodramatic excesses in the now-classic Airplane!, the "film parody" sub-genre of comedy films has spawned hit-and-miss ...

Pros: None
Cons: Why rehash jokes from other comedies?

Date Movie is an awful and unfunny parody of many romantic comedies from the past several years. It stars Alyson Hannigan and was written and directed by some of the people who did the Scary Movie series. Do not waste your time or money on ...

Pros: It wasn't any longer.
Cons: Not funny. Stupid plot. Annoying characters.

In 2006, I remember hearing some things about Date Movie and how it was the first spoof of romantic comedies. I seem to remember some of the promotions making a very big deal of that. I have enjoyed other spoof movies when they have been ...

Pros: It was short!!!
Cons: It wasn’t short enough, jokes dragged on FOREVER

Hmmm, where should I begin? Well, let me start with explaining what possessed me to rent this film. I remember seeing the commercials for this when it first came out. It was the parody of the infamous Paris Hilton Hardee’s commercial…the one with the ...

Pros: I didn't have to spend any money watching this.
Cons: I actually saw this multiple times.

I'm all for spoof movies if they are done properly, but that seems to be a contradiction of sorts. I've enjoyed them over the years especially Mel Brooks' Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Naked Gun ...

Pros: A comedy that makes fun of other comedies?
Cons: The humour doesn't go far enough.

Let's frame this review by taking that old George Carlin routine, things you never hear or things you don't wanna hear; only substituting that with things you never thought. Let's also admit that what I'm about to say will never be ...

Pros: It was over in 80 minutes
Cons: Whoever gave this film the greenlight.

I love a good comedy, and I love a good parody. Parodies must follow certain rules however. One, they must be funny. Two, each parody scene should be funnier than the one that they are making fun of. Date Movie does neither. This was one of the most ...

Pros: A couple amusing parts, only 80 minutes long
Cons: Pretty much everything - bad humor, boring, outdated, poor acting

I didn’t have real high expectations going into Date Movie seeing as I read a review earlier today suggesting it might become the worst film of 2006. At that point, I’d already purchased my tickets on Fandango so I gave it a try anyway. ...

Pros: It was only 80 minutes long
Cons: Script, not funny, totally unoriginal. Did I mention it is a terrible movie?

This movie is without question one of the worst comedies I have ever seen. I am a big movie buff, I have seen a lot of movies and this is about as bad as they get. I cannot believe that this movie actually got picked up by a major company and made it's ...

Pros: It has Alyson Hannigan in it . . . (That's a stretch)
Cons: Terrible acting, No character development, Dumb plot, NOT FUNNY!

Today is the first of (hopefully) two days where I review two movies that are rather close together in terms of plot and concept, but are dramatically far apart as far as quality. Both are parodies of films oriented toward teen audiences and are spoofs ...

Pros: None.
Cons: Everything. A total "A-Bomb." Afflicted throughout with the dreaded disease: "cross genre-zation."

Walking into my local Glen Cove Theater my "Expectation Bar" for “Date Movie” lied upon the frozen ground, in very much the same place I had put it the week before prior to seeing "Final Destination 3," a horror/thriller/mystery. Whereas the ...

Pros: Some (but not many) funny jokes
Cons: It doesn't innovate from Scary Movie ; doesn't even do the old things well.

This is what a conversation between Date Movie writers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer must have been like before they started writing the film : Aaron : I want to target the movie at teens. It's easy to make teens laugh. Anyways, most of em'll ...

Pros: 1 smile and 1 laugh
Cons: EVERYTHING

From 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie comes up with a "we're annoying" movie called "Date Movie". The movie is about an obese girl who wants love and decide to take revenge on romantic films by making them into a spoof. She gets upgraded and meets some ...

Pros: Alyson Hannigan, some funny moments
Cons: the film is short and the toilet humor is not funny anymore.

Date Movie, a knock off the Scary Movie series, has some the goods but has some misses as well. Date Movie well is a parody of romantic comedies such as Hitch, Bridget Jones' Diary, How to lose a guy in 10 days and many more mashed up into this film. ...