Date Movie

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.

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.

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.

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.

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").

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

A lame pastiche of Hollywood romances.

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.

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.

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.

Empire Anna Smith

A lowest common denominator spoof.

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.

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.

Village Voice Ben Kenigsberg

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

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.

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.

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.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Elapsed time before I walked out: 29 minutes Total laughs (in that period): 0

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

"Comedy is hard," said Steve Martin. For the writers of Date Movie, it's apparently impossible.