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Date Movie
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for continuous crude and sexual humor, including language
Starring
Alyson Hannigan,
Adam Campbell,
Jennifer Coolidge,
Eddie Griffin,
Eddie Griffin,
Michelle Misty Lang,
and
Tony Cox
The twisted minds of two of the six screenwriters behind "Scary Movie" skewer the romantic comedy genre. (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Aaron Seltzer
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 30, 2006
Theatrical: February 17, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
80 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
In Date Movie, the hormones, anxiety, and princess jealousy that fuel the majority of Hollywood love stories are made so excessive that the romance itself is revealed to be...every bit as big a crock as it usually is.

38
Boston Globe
Bobby Hankinson
Date Movie has enough laughs to make rambunctious dudes hoot and holler, but not nearly enough to ensure the happy ending it promises.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Date Movie, alas, is here to remind us that slapstick can be just plain bad. These are sight gags best appreciated with a blindfold.

30
The New York Times
Anita Gates
Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, who wrote the screenplay, have crammed dozens of movie parodies into this deliberately juvenile spoof of romantic comedies. Mr. Seltzer, who directed, has made very few of them funny.

30
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
This anemic genre parody from two of the six writers of "Scary Movie" strives for the goofball precision of the brothers Zucker and, long before it reaches the end of its 70-odd minutes, gives you newfound respect for the comic genius of the brothers Wayans (two of the other writers of "Scary Movie").

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
A lame pastiche of Hollywood romances.

25
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The choice is yours: Shell out 10 bucks for this dire spoof of recent romantic comedies a la "Scary Movie" and "Not Another Teen Movie", or toss your 12-year-old nephew a quarter and get him to act out scenes from his favorite movies for 80 minutes: The entertainment value will be about the same.

20
Variety
Joe Leydon
Arguably the lamest of all the free-wheeling genre parodies that have taken flight since "Airplane!," Date Movie is stupefyingly unfunny in its attempts to mock romantic comedies, celebrities, reality TV shows and anything else that pops into the heads of its creators.

20
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The only thing remotely resembling parody in this depressing waste of time and money is Jennifer Coolidge's sendup of Barbra Streisand as an over-the-top string of Jewish mother clichés.

20
Empire
Anna Smith
A lowest common denominator spoof.

10
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
This crass drag of a dud at best manages to elicit just a couple of half-hearted chuckles over the course of its 80-minute allotment.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Boasting that your film features "two of the six writers of Scary Movie," as this film's marketing campaign does, is like bragging that you came in second in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction Contest.

0
Village Voice
Ben Kenigsberg
Pre- credits, Date Movie runs a mere 70 minutes, which increasingly seems like seven minutes, repeated 10 times.

0
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
It's kind of amazing that a joke-a-second comedy like Date Movie doesn't contain a single laugh.

0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Date Movie is a good date movie in one sense: If you're still speaking to the person who brought you to see this, you just might have a future together.

0
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A collection of throwaway gags from other movies, a big blue recycling barrel of comedy waiting for the trash collector. It's rated PG-13 because 13 is the maximum age of those who might find it funny.

0
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Elapsed time before I walked out: 29 minutes
Total laughs (in that period): 0

0
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
"Comedy is hard," said Steve Martin. For the writers of Date Movie, it's apparently impossible.


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