Product: Date Movie [UMD for PSP] (2006)
Rating: 1.0
A spoof that falls flat on its face
I went into this movie hoping for the same humor and magic that made the Scary Movies so popular and hilarious, but it's nowhere to be seen.I know it's been said repeatedly, but it has to be said, the two writers of Scary Movie that made Date Movie were probably the worst of the six.It tries, like the Scary Movie franchise, to set up parodies of romantic comedies, such as Hitch, Meet The Fockers and Pretty Woman, and while some of the gags work because they're just disturbing (the boyfriend dressed like Julia Roberts as a hooker in Pretty Woman, and the cat in the bathroom from Meet the Fockers), most of the time it misses the mark and isn't remotely funny.The only thing that makes this movie barely tolerable to sit through is Alyson Hannigan (who was great in the American Pie movies), who does the best she can with the material.But as tolerable as she makes the movie, she's not Anna Faris, which is probably the only one who can pull off these types of movies successfully.I was hoping for a romantic comedy spoof equivalent of Scary Movie, but let's face it, it completely fails. Let's just stick to Anna Faris and Regina Hall in the Scary Movie franchise.Globally, it's a movie I'm reluctant to recommend (even as a rental) even though there are 2 or 3 funny scenes.