Product: Date Movie [UMD for PSP] (2006)
Rating: 3.0
only a guilty pleasure
Alyson Hannigan stars as Juila Jones, a grossly overweight young woman trying her best to find a man who will love her for the rest of her life. She has a Greek-Black father played by Eddie Griffin, and a loving Indian mother, who both own a Greek restaurant. She meets a handsome Brit named Grant Fockyerdodder, and it's love at first sight. With the help of a pint-sized love doctor named Hitch, she gets "pimped out," loses tons of weight, and becomes beautifully thin in order to snag Grant. These two lovebirds negotiate the film with the aid of hilarious spoofs inspired by many films, some of which are Meet the Parents, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Wedding Crashers, Kill Bill, Hitch, When Harry Met Sally, Napoleon Dynamite, and many others.This film was crass, gross, mildly shocking. It was by no means the greatest movie, but all the spoof elements came together to create a campy comedy that ellicited numerous hysterical laughs out of me. This is a movie created to make you laugh, which is exactly what it does. Those with severely refined and snooty tastes will probably turn their noses up at this film, but those who are entertained by movies such as Not Another Teen Movie and Scary Movie will most definitely enjoy this one.