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Date Movie
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Date Movie reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 11 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.1 out of 10
based on 18 reviews
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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  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
 
DIRECTED BY: Aaron Seltzer  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 30, 2006 
Theatrical: February 17, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 80 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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67
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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").
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
A lame pastiche of Hollywood romances.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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20
Empire Anna Smith
A lowest common denominator spoof.
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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.
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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.
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0
Village Voice Ben Kenigsberg
Pre- credits, Date Movie runs a mere 70 minutes, which increasingly seems like seven minutes, repeated 10 times.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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0
Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Elapsed time before I walked out: 29 minutes Total laughs (in that period): 0
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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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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 3.1 (out of 10) based on 148 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Nick C. gave it a0:
Worst movie evah! I actually laughed at how utterly lame the jokes were.

David K gave it a5:
Absolutely Hilarious. Laugh Out loud comedy. yet it deserves no more than 5/10 Why? well for comedy it gets 10/10 For story and how good the film is it gets 1/10 thats 5.5/10 so i rounded down as story is more important the humor

Rob F. gave it a0:
Horrible in every way, I hated this movie. It is like a bad MadTV sketch that doesn't end.

A1phA . gave it a0:
Worst. Movie. Ever. AVOID AT ALL COSTS... unless you want to see what a real "Bad Movie" looks like and sounds like...and tastes like. I can't get the taste of vomit out of my mouth.

Phil M. gave it a0:
This movie should have never been released. This is by far the worst movie i've seen in years, i loved how they made fun of other movies but were really just making fun of themselves on how retarded the acting and camera work was. Do not buy or rent this movie..luckily i didnt thanks to HBO.

Fanny F. gave it a0:
Wow, that's the most unfuny movie since Shindler's List.

Daniel E. gave it a10:
All of the people that gave this movie 6 or under are stupid. If you didn't find this movie funny then you obviously didn't understand the jokes they made. I thought this movie was hilarious!

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