Box Office Bust
By Stacey M. Salo | Editor-in-Chief
Looking for a good new comedy movie? I wouldn’t recommend spending the 7 or so dollars on Date Movie (rated PG 13 for content and language), a spoof of several romantic comedies. It starts with laughter and ends with the viewer feeling disappointed at how it falls flat. If not that, the viewer will get up and leave after the first 20 to 30 minutes. If you really want to see the movie, I would highly recommend renting it, and save the extra money for candy and soda because those are the only two good things you are going to get out of watching this movie.
In the opening scene, Julia Jones (Alyson Hanning) has a horrible nightmare that nobody, not even Napoleon Dynamite, will marry her because she is overweight. She writes in her Diary (Bridget Jones’ Diary) then firmly decides that she will find true love no matter what. She heads out into the street and dances to the song “Milkshake” to try and gain the attention of the guys on the street. When her attempts fail her, she goes to see Hitch (Tony Cox), who gives her a “Pimp My Chick” makeover consisting of liposuction and a complete makeover.
Now with a new sense of confidence she goes on the show “The Extreme Bachelor: Desperate Edition” where she comes face to face with the man of her dreams Grant Funkyerdoder (Adam Campbell, whom she actually meets earlier when she is overweight). The two go on a date at “A Restaurant”, and the movie goes downhill in a whirlwind explosion of spoofs of “Meet the Parents”, “Meet the Fockers,” “Kill Bill,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and several other movies. The disappointment here is that instead of poking fun at these romantic comedies, it’s almost as if they re-enact the movies with very dry humor and bad jokes leading to the end, which for a comedy is too cute and way too predictable. My rating: 1 and ½ stars out of 5.
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