Product: Date Movie [UMD for PSP] (2006)
Rating: 1.0
I just wish "LAME!" wasn't so cliche.
Okay, I am always open to fine parody. I was raised on MAD magazine and saw "Airplane" back in the day. If it is funny, then it is good, when it comes to parody.Trouble is, "Date Movie" isn't funny.I think Alyson Hannigan's performance was good, as were the performances by Eddie Griffin and the others. Acting cannot compensate for poor script writing and a movie whose humor is not even sophisticated enough for an eighteen year old!I am glad that the movie didn't include any actual nudity (even the "UNRATED" version --- which must have included some extra curse words that the theater version did not). By being free of nudity, one can envision that the writers may have been targeting the eight to ten year old crowd with this movie. (This thought occurred to me as an unbearable scene of a cat on a toilet making rude noises while defecating seemed to drag on for what seemed like ten or fifteen squirmingly uncomfortable minutes.)If, in fact, the movie was meant for eight-to-ten-year-olds, the producers may want to advertise as such and not include pop culture references to movies such as "My Best Friend's Wedding", which may have been too long ago to have been a shared experience with the intended audience.I really do yearn for a funny, smart parody of the biggest movies. After seeing "Date Movie", I continue to yearn, but I now may shy away from anything like this in the future.