Date Movie

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Date Movie

Promotional poster for Date Movie
Directed by Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Produced by Jason Friedberg
Jack L. Murray
Paul Schiff
Aaron Seltzer
Written by Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Starring Alyson Hannigan
Sophie Monk
Adam Campbell
Eddie Griffin
Fred Willard
Jennifer Coolidge
Mauricio Sanchez
Cinematography Shawn Maurer
Editing by Paul Hirsch
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) February 17, 2006
Running time 83 min.
Language English
Budget $20 million
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IMDb profile

Date Movie is a 2006 spoof of romantic comedies directed and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, two of the writers of the first Scary Movie. It stars Sophie Monk, Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Eddie Griffin, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge and Mauricio Sanchez. The film was released on DVD on May 30, 2006.

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[edit] Parodies

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Movies

Dr. Hitch (Tony Cox), parodying Will Smith's character in Hitch.
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Dr. Hitch (Tony Cox), parodying Will Smith's character in Hitch.
Hannigan as Julia; overweight at the start of the movie.
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Hannigan as Julia; overweight at the start of the movie.

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[edit] Other References

Andy (Sophie Monk), parodying Paris Hilton's Carl's Jr. advertisement.
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Andy (Sophie Monk), parodying Paris Hilton's Carl's Jr. advertisement.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Movie starts with Julia Jones, an overweight waitress, having a dream about walking to a mysterious man at an altar. The man turns around and, parodying Napoleon Dynamite, says "Idiot! Hell no I won't marry you, gosh! What would you do if you were in a situation like this?! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh!" After she wakes, she gives a brief introduction to herself by a diary entry, while looking at her elderly neighbour's house, who has several cats bouncing around her, (at one point in the diary entry, two cats are seen either attacking or mounting each other in midair).

Julia is later seen flirting with men on the street to Milkshake, by Kelis, resulting in every man on the street fleeing in terror (sometimes killing themselves with weird items such as nailguns). Next we see her working at her family's Greek food diner, where she meets her Greek father, her Indian mother, and her Japanese sister, and her father points out that she is Jewish. (When she asks her folks about love, she says "But where am I going to find a Greek/Indian/Japanese Jew around here?" Her father points to a worker resembling a janitor who has a rat looking out from the back of his pants, and Julia looks disgusted.) We see her serving Grant Fockyerdoder a cup of coffee, and knocking him out in the process. Her father then makes a comment on not wanting her to get married.

Depressed, Julia goes to see a date doctor, Hitch. Hitch takes her to West Coast Customs from MTV's Pimp My Ride, where they "pimp her out". The now beautiful Julia then goes on a reality show, "Extreme Bachelor: Desperate Edition" where she sees Grant again. (The reality show has a strange way of winning, where Grant is supposed to knock out every woman who he "doesn't want to screw" with a shotgun. The last woman passes out, and Julia is left, afterwards the host says they'll have a romantic date at a restaurant, which turns out to be a restaurant named "A Restaurant.") After a date, Grant, who was in love with Julia even before she was "Pimped", proposes to her.

After Grant proposes to Julia, They go to see a wedding planner. This Wedding Planner is a parody of the movie Wedding Planner starring Jennifer Lopez. The Wedding Planner is named Jell-o, a name sometimes used to describe Lopez. Jell-o suggests that they have the wedding at a resurant called Taco Butt ( the slogan being "Think outside my bunns). Grant and Julia disagree with this, Jell-o shows them the entertainment she's planned, herself. She knocks her desk back with her very large buttocks and rips off her uniform, revealing that she's wearing a gold colored Jump suit and that she has fantastically large buttocks. Jell-o does some dance moves, and as shes backing up towards Grant and Julia, the two scream because the pants are about to break.

After a few scenes parodying Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, Grant informs Julia that Andy, who Grant wants to be the best man, will be arriving in town soon. Andy, as it turns out, is a Paris Hilton like woman, (and Julia later questions why Grant said a woman was going to be his best man) who broke up with Grant only 3 weeks before. It is later revealed that Andy wishes to ruin the wedding, and succeeds, causing a depressed Julia to return home. Julia decides to go ahead with her father's arranged marriage, until he calls it off at the last minute, showing Julia an issue of Cosmopolitan which has a strangely specific article by Grant in it. Julia then rushes to her apartment to meet up with Grant, who is just about to leave, and falls off the roof and into his arms, parodying Serendepity. They then get married, and have a honeymoon on Skull Island, (called Kong Island in the film) where they see Carmen Electra get her clothes ripped off by King Kong.

[edit] MPAA

Rated PG-13 for continuous crude and sexual humor, including language.

[edit] DVD

The DVD has been released on May 30, 2006. The DVD is unrated though there aren't really that many scenes that are unrated, and those that are mostly just contain foul language.

The DVD comes with a English, French, 2 commentaries, an anti-commentary featuring two critics who apparently did not like the film period, and an audience track from a test screening.

[edit] Critical Reaction

Date Movie was panned by critics on upon its release. As of November 1st, 2006, it ranks #95 on the IMDb Bottom 100 list, with 11,032 people giving it an average rating of 2.7 out of 10. On RottenTomatoes, the movie is considered "rotten" with a 7% on the tomatometer.

[edit] Trivia

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  • The scene where Carmen Electra's character gets her clothes ripped was based on censored (but subsequently reinstated) footage from the original King Kong. Also, Electra gets her clothes ripped in the beginning of Scary Movie, in which Friedberg and Seltzer also wrote the beginning.
  • Many stores/restaurants are spoofed such as Taco Bell (Taco Butt) and Best Buy (Best Bride). Though Louis Vuitton, Versace and other real clothing brand names appears too.
  • Many Napoleon Dynamite fans thought Jon Heder reprised his role, but it was played by comedian Josh Meyers. Also, Meyers mocked Owen Wilson in one line which is, "Is it too late to crash the Fockyerdoder Wedding?".
  • Chris Harrison plays himself in The Bachelor parody.
  • Frank has eight nipples, a reference to a deleted scene from Scary Movie.
  • Sophie Monk's Carl's Jr. / Hardee's spoof is shorter than the one shown on advertisements with Paris Hilton.
  • The name Fockyerdoder is a joke on the last name Focker from Meet The Parents, though Meet The Parents was also spoofed in several different parts of the movie.
  • The old cat woman that lived in the apartment across from Julia is the same actress who played the old lady who was undercover in Not Another Teen Movie.
  • "Extreme Bachelor: Desperate Edition" is a combination of the titles of The Bachelor, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and Desperate Housewives.
  • The scene involving Owen Wilson getting crushed by a cameraman is cut. He only appears in one scene with one line.
  • When the RV is driven in, it spoofs Meet the Fockers and Dukes of Hazzard, by changing the horn tune from "Puff, the Magic Dragon" (Meet the Fockers) to the first 12 notes of "Dixie" (Dukes of Hazzard)
  • The scenes involving Napoleon running away and Owen Wilson getting crushed are cut.
  • Lil Jon comes in during dinner to say "What","Yeah", "Okay" ,"Get Crunk" which are his common catchphrases in his songs.
  • The name Julia Jones is actually a combination of Bridget Jones from Bridget Jones's Diary and Julia Roberts, the actress.
  • Grant's name is actually derived from Hugh Grant, who is a very famous British actor known for his roles in romance movies. The directors implemented the word "Very British Grant" in their synopsis as a form of clue to which actor they are parodying.
  • In the Pretty Woman scene where Grant crossdresses as a woman, the set of clothes he wore is actually the same original set worn by Julia Roberts back in the original movie.
  • In some versions of the DVD, the word "Fockyerdoder" has been changed to "Funkyerdoder". Details are still unknown at present.
  • In the rehearsal dinner scene, the characters sing a song that is a spoof of "I Say A Little Prayer". An obvious spoof of My Best Friend's Wedding.
  • A deleted scene shows Julia writing in a diary, from the perspective of Bridget Jones, until the real Bridget comes and takes her diary back, slapping Julia.
  • During the scene where Grant is holding a stereo over his head with food and other objects getting hurled at him, a rather ripe looking tomato hits him in his left eye at the end of the scene. In the audio commentary, Adam Campbell stated he had a black eye the whole next day.
  • In the scene where Sophie Monk imitates the Carl's Jr. commercial, she displays her disgust for meat on the audio commentary, citing she is a vegan. This is seen in the ending credits where Sophie is seen eating the burger, then scrunching up her face and spitting it out.
  • Hugh Grant was filming a movie at the same studio where Date Movie was filmed. When Alyson Hannigan had to get from her make-up trailer to the set with the exaggerated pimple on her face, Hugh ran into her and asked "What are they doing to you?" (This is because Hugh saw Alyson in her fat suit ensemble.)
  • The pus and the liposuctioned fat is tapioca pudding.
  • The hair on Grant's face at the end is yak hair.

[edit] Cast

Julia Jones played by Alyson Hannigan, after being "pimped out".
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Julia Jones played by Alyson Hannigan, after being "pimped out".

[edit] External links

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