Product: Date Movie [UMD for PSP] (2006)
Rating: 2.0
Alyson Hannigan Deserves Better Film
One of the reasons I watched "Date Movie" is Alyson Hannigan, star of "American Pie" and "Buffy, the Vampure Slayer." And I am a fan of parody movies since the days of masterpieces like "Airplane!" But what I found here is only half-baked jokes, or not even jokes, just references to other better films and of-screen news about celebrities like Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton.I agree with most of the reviewers who found "Date Movie" very unfunny. The film contains jokes that are silly, sexual and gross, three major components that are visible in the recent trend of spoofs, but I don't mind if jokes are silly, sexual and gross. I love them. I watched "Borat" which has all of these three, and there are lots of them (plus politically incorrect jokes) and I enjoyed the film very much.What is most disappointing about "Date Movie" - and the most irritating thing about it - is its laziness. The filmmakers go from one gag to another without developing it. Each joke is not big or clever (including references to "Brigit Jones's Diary," Darth Vader, clown dance (with the soundtrack from "The Rize," etc) and there is nothing more to that. The film moves on to the next one, trying to find a new target which is not necessarily date movie. Sometimes it does the same joke over and over again. The prolonged "cat-in-the-bathroom" joke is unbearable.I almost forgot to mention the star of the film Alyson Hannigan. Sure, she is game, fun to watch, ready to do whatever she has to do (including embarrassingly unfunny dancing in fat suit and a huge zit). And she is sadly wasted.