Date Movie
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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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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 Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Sophie Monk, Eddie Griffin, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge and Mauricio Sanchez. The film was released on DVD on May 30, 2006.
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[edit] Plot
The Movie starts with Julia Jones, an overweight waitress who is a parody of Bridget Jones of the eponymous film, 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 awakens, 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 in a comedic manner (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 diner, where she meets her Greek father, her Indian mother, and her Japanese sister; and her father, who is actually black, points out that she is Jewish. When she asks her folks about love, she says "You mean I have to marry a Greek/Indian/Japanese/Jew?", to which her father replies "You're acting like that's hard to find." Her father then 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 Funkyerdodder [a parody of Hugh Grant] 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 Side Customs, a parody of 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 use a shotgun to knock out every woman whom he "doesn't want to bang." 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 at a jewelry store in a parody of the proposal scene at Tiffany's in Sweet Home Alabama.
After Grant proposes to Julia, they go to see a wedding planner. This Wedding Planner is a parody of the movie The Wedding Planner starring Jennifer Lopez. The Wedding Planner is named Jell-o, a parody of J-Lo, a name sometimes used to describe Lopez. Jell-o suggests that they have the wedding at a restaurant called Taco Butt (the slogan being "Think outside my buns"). 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 (just like My Best Friend's Wedding), 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. After meeting Andy, Julia and Grant go to counseling with an off-screen therapist in a parody of similar scenes in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
While getting wedding dress fittings, Julia experiences electric shock and can suddenly hear everyone's thoughts [like Mel Gibson in What Women Want ]including those of Andy when Andy plots against her. The two women confront each other a la Kill Bill and have flashbacks which include a scene that parodys Dodgeball.
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 Serendipity. 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] List of spoofed movies
- A Lot Like Love
- A Cinderella Story
- Say Anything
- Never Been Kissed
- Moulin Rouge!
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- Meet the Parents
- Meet the Fockers
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- The Devil Wears Prada -- After Julia and Grant come from the restaurant they walk down a street lined with trees on which are wrapped white Christmas lights just as in a similar scene in Devil Wears Prada when Anne Hathaway first goes on a first date.
- Kill Bill
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Hitch
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- King Kong
- Along Came Polly
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Wedding Crashers
- When Harry Met Sally
- Pretty Woman
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- Legally Blonde
- Jerry Maguire
- Notting Hill
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Monster In Law
- Mean Girls
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- Rent (film)
- What Women Want
- Kevin and Perry Go Large
- White Chicks
- The Princess Diaries
- The Birdcage
- The Notebook
- Freaky Friday
- Bend It Like Beckham
- The Wedding Planner
- My Best Friend's Wedding
- Wedding Crashers
- Serendipity
- Rize (regarding the krumping style of dance)
- She's All That
- Rent (musical) (musical)
- Fun With Dick And Jane
- A Streetcar Named Desire (film)
- Shallow Hal
- The 40-Year Old Virgin
[edit] Television Shows
- Pimp My Ride
- Britney and Kevin: Chaotic
- Desperate Housewives
- Extreme Makeover and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Grey's Anatomy
- The Price Is Right
- Chapelle's Show ("I'm rich, biach" quote)
- Twin Peaks
- The Bachelor
[edit] Other References
- Paris Hilton's Carl's Jr. / Hardee's advertisement
- Michael Jackson
- The Girls Gone Wild videos ads
- The internet phenomenon Bumfights
- Candy Shop by 50 Cent
- iPod
- Britney Spears and Kevin Federline
- Best Buy
- Taco Bell
[edit] MPAA
Rated PG-13 for continuous crude and sexual humor, including language. Not rated on DVD.
[edit] DVD
The DVD has been released on May 30, 2006.
The DVD comes with an English, French, 2 commentaries, a commentary featuring two critics who apparently did not like the film, and an audience track from a test screening.
[edit] Cast
- Alyson Hannigan as Julia Jones
- Adam Campbell as Grant Funckyerdoder
- Sophie Monk as Andy
- Jennifer Coolidge as Roz Funckyerdoder
- Fred Willard as Bernie Funckyerdoder
- Eddie Griffin as Frank Jones
- Tony Cox as Hitch
- Nina Avetisova as Bachelorgirl
- Bridget Ann Brno as Bridget Jones
- Carmen Electra as Herself (The natives chant her name)
- Valery Ortiz as Jell-O
- Andrea Kosarew as Deaf Woman
- Tom Fitzpatrick as Gandalf
- Tom Lenk as Frodo
- Judah Friedlander as Nicky
- Gianfranco L'Amore as Native King Kong
- Marie Matiko as Betty
- Josh Meyers as Napoleon and Owen Wilson from Wedding Crashers
- Edward Moss as Michael Jackson
- Mauricio Sanchez as Eduardo
- Meera Simhan as Linda
- Nadia Dina Ariqat as Britney
- Matt Austin as Fireman
- Nick Steele as Kevin
- Lil Jon as himself
- Beverly Polcyn as Old Cat Woman
- Sarah Michelle Gellar as Boogeywoman (deleted scene)
- Midajah McCullum as Sales Girl
[edit] Critical Reaction
Although Date Movie grossed US$ 48 million in the United States and $US 84 million worldwide, it was panned by critics on upon its release. On RottenTomatoes, the movie is considered "rotten" with an 8% on the tomatometer. Also, internationally renowned critic, Sean Ryan, has registered his disgust with the movie publicly multiple times, going so far as to call it 'The Holocaust of Movies.'
[edit] Box Office
First Week Gross US$ 22,000,611
Domestic US$ 55,368,488
Non-Domestic US$ 123,345,100
World-Wide US$ 178,604,194
[edit] Trivia
- Frank has eight nipples, a reference to a deleted scene from Scary 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.
- 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.
- In France, Date Movie is called Sexy Movie.
- The theatrical poster is a double entendre in itself. It can be seen as an indirect reference to masturbation.
- During the credits it is shown that the directors poured green slime on Carmen Electra as a prank during the King Kong scene.
- 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.
[edit] See also
- Romantic comedy, the concept being spoofed in this film
- Scary Movie, a spoof on horror films
- Not Another Teen Movie, a spoof on teen films
- Epic Movie, a spoof of epic films