Product: Date Movie [UMD for PSP] (2006)
Rating: 2.0
Barely passable
NO SPOILERS, NO FEARS! I do mention what it parodies in parts, but no scenes are actually given.The whole parody movie thing goes way back to the 60s and 70s with classics like Blazing Saddles and the Monte Python movies and beyond. Lately, in the new wave of parodies: Austin Powers, Scary Movie, etc, they have usually gone into simple, incomplex story lines based on movies that have been recently featured, or as some would consider overrated. Date Movie does this, but unsuccessfully.SYNOPSIS: Julia (Hannigan) is a fat, lonely girl that is looking for a fairy tale Mr. Right, with parents having high expectations of meeting their family's cultural boundaries: African-American, Indian, Japanese, AND Jewish. To help meet this Mr. Right, she goes to 'Hitch' and is 'Pimped' to be the Alyson Hannigan we know and love today. With her new slender body, she goes onto a reality show, where she meets Mr. Right, but not her parent's view of Mr. Right. Somehow he must make her parents feel comfortable with the marriage, accept him as their son-in-law, and avoid the temptations of his ex girlfriend.A real problem with Date Movie is that it really doesn't go with a strait theme. Date Movie implies that it is a parody of chick flicks, romance movies, and comedies. It branchs off however going into odd questionable movie situations like, Kill Bill. Also, there are a lot of movies that were used that weren't widely seen, or were too old for a lot of younger people to actually catch the intended joke. Unfortunately, this doesn't appeal to any older folks, so the jokes are completely lost.Another major problem, and probably the biggest, is that it throws each parody at you in rapid succession. Suddenly its Meet the Parents/Fockers, to Big Fat Greek Wedding, to Pretty Woman, to Say Anything, and even the Bachelor, all within a 10 minute period what it seems. This incredibly short 80 MINUTE MOVIE!! has all these parodies, but unlike Scary Movie, which has many of the same writers, doesn't stay with one or two story lines. Scary Movie one parodies Scream, Scary Movie 2 parodies House on Haunted Hill, and although a large portion of Scary Movie 3 was dedicated to 8 Mile, and a small to the Matrix, it was mostly Signs and the Ring, and meshed much better. All branch offs in this movie were sporatic and random, having nothing to do with plot enhancement.Finally, this movie just wasn't that funny. There are no memorable scenes from this movie that you can joke around with your friends the next day, not memorible scenes that just made you laugh so hard to pee yourself... all jokes fell flat, and made you feel like they tried way to hard to make you laugh. THe most you'll get out of this movie is a har har. It was to some extend entertaining, and you kept watching just to know what happened, but its a one time see at best!BOTTOM LINE: DOLLAR FLICK!! (Maybe on Tuesdays for 50 cents)