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Date Movie



Review by Clint Morris

Date Movie

Spoof movies are like bad girls - you just know they’re going to burn you in the end, yet still you can’t help but be strangely attracted to them...

So what’s on offer for this big Date? A pass-by at a Big Fat Greek Wedding, you’ll also Meet the Parents, sit down with a well-rumped Wedding Planner, get some advice from Hitch, hear about My Best Friend’s Wedding and, rather bizarrely (since it’s not exactly a romantic-comedy, and it's those films that seem the target here), come face to face with King Kong.

Like any spoof movie - well, any spoof movie since the original Flying High (aka Airplane) and possibly, the first Scary Movie - you’ve already seen all the best bits in the trailer.

Having seen the ‘cat on the toilet’ gag (from Meet the Parents) in the ad, as well as the spot-on Owen Wilson/Wedding Crashers spoof, there really isn’t much more in the film itself that’ll make you giggle, snort or wet your ‘roos.

The saving grace of the film, though, is Alsyon Hannigan (Buffy) - making quite a large jump from TV starlet to bonafide headline-act movie star - who carries herself quite well, and is appreciably ready and willing to do anything. Hopefully we’ll see more of the charming redhead on the big screen in the near future.

Here, Hannigan plays a preposterously overweight woman named Julia (that’s the Bridget Jones gag) that is transformed into a skinny hottie (thanks to ‘Pimp my Ride’, naturally) so she can register as a contestant on the reality show, Extreme Bachelor. It’s there that she meets her dream man, Grant (Adam Campbell, who is assumingly channeling Hugh Grant, but it’s hard to know because this guy’s blonde), and rather instantly, they fall in love and plan their wedding. Cue the moderately funny movie gags…

Sans the material, the supporting cast do rather well too here. Eddie Griffin gets a couple of good moments as he channels Bob De Niro’s uncompromising father character from the Meet the Parents films, Fred Willard and Jennifer Coolidge do rather good take-offs of Dusty and Babs from the Fockers, and Australian singer-cum-actress Sophie Monk scores a rather sizable role as a bimbo that tries to break up the lead twosome. Her body gives a rather good performance.

No, it isn’t as good as Scary Movie, but then, the advertising material does tip-us off to that, doesn’t it, by reminding us that only “2 of the 6 writers from Scary Movie” worked on the film. That should say enough.

Typically, it’s got a shorter running time than Grandma at track and field, so if you’ve got 70 minutes or so to waste you may find light entertainment here.

2.5 out of 5


 
 

 

Date Movie
Australian release:
Thursday 16th of February, 2006.
Cast:
 Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Eddie Griffin, Fred Willard, Sophie Monk, Tony Cox, Jennifer Coolidge, Judah Friedlander, Carmen Electra.
Director: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg.
Website:
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