Product: Date Movie [UMD for PSP] (2006)
Rating: 1.0
Disappointing
"Date Movie" is about an overweight girl who suddenly gets slimmer and starts dating. Being a huge fan of Allyson Hannigan and the nonsensical spoof genre ("Scare Movie", "Naked Gun" series, "Hot Shots", etc), I expected to be entertained. Normally, this kind of movies are great at revealing contemporary Hollywood clichés and pretensions. However, this movie is criminally bad. The comedic timing is way off. All the gags last longer than they should, as if the editor was asleep when he/she worked on this. When I saw the trailer for this movie, I was excited because date movies are great for spoofing. Unfortunately, half-way through the film the writer ran out of inspiration and decided to spoof other comedies like "Meet the Fockers". Since "Meet the Fockers" is a crazy comedy that doesn't take itself seriously, spoofing it makes no sense and makes it look like the creators of "Date Movie" are simply stealing scenes from another film. The opening dance sequence is perhaps the most hostile and offensive treatment of overweight people ever recorded on film. Too bad this was so bad cuz the cast is pretty good.