Product: Date Movie [UMD for PSP] (2006)
Rating: 3.0
One Hot Date
Fox has just released the brand new DVD transfer Of "Date Movie", a quick, witty, wild spoof of romantic-comedy movies(and maybe, almost everything else). The movie is short. If you watched them all, the DVD extras actually last longer. "Date Movie" is the story of Julia Jones(Alyson Hannigan, who is brilliant), an over-weight young waitress. With the help of a love-muse(?), she is able to re-invent herself and lose the pounds. She meets a handsome Englishman, Grant, and love is in the air. But now she has to deal with their families' incompatibility, and Grant's sexy old girlfriend. "Date Movie" shamelessly parodies "King Kong", "Star Wars", "Meet the Parents", "Kill Bill", and even TV commercials. Then it takes shots at Britney Spears, Jalo, Michael Jackson, Barbara Streisand, and more. Funny stuff(the Jackson spoof is hysterical). "Date Movie" features Tony Cox(from "Bad Santa"), Fred Willard, and a partially-clothed Carmen Electra. "Date Movie" is available in two versions, a rated edition(82 minutes), and an unrated version(85 minutes). The disc has an animated anamorphic widescreen main menu, allowing access to the special features. The quality of the transfer is spotty. Some scenes are crisp in detail, with vivid color, but others are soft and dull. A real positive is the generous boat-load of extras. You get three different feature-length audio commentaries. Featurettes include "On Dating", with the cast, "The Quickie", a six-and-a-half minute movie synopsis, with scenes sped-up and slowed-down. You also get twelve deleted, extended, or alternate scenes. The editor was wise to cut them. A "Gag Reel" has a snicker or two. And the inter-active "Andy's Cherry Stem Surprise" is well...(Dont's go there). Then there is an 18-minute Fox Movie Channel Spoof of Peter Jackson failing to direct "King Kong". The disc ends with three trailers, the international trailer, a soundtrack commercial, and five "internet clips". This is a funny, irreverant film. It doesn't all work, but you can't get too bored in an hour-and-ten minutes. The cat-on-the-toilet sequence is worth the ticket price alone. The extras mention the Fox Legal Dept. editing out portions of the final DVD product. When I saw "Date Movie" in the theater, I seem to remember a Paris Hilton spoof, but in this DVD, the heiress is not to be found.