Date Movie *½

Date Movie
Directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Starring Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Tony Cox, Eddie Griffin, and Fred Willard. Rated PG-13.

It seems like every couple of months these days they’re coming out with some new spoof of a certain genre, thinking it will ride the Scary Movie train and become a blockbuster. But as of late, these types of movies have been getting worse and worse. Date Movie is no different. This time around, they’ve decided to spoof romantic comedies like Meet the Parents and Bridget Jones’s Diary. The hideously overweight Julia Jones believes she will never find love. But after a visit with Hitch, the date doctor, he “pimps her out” and makes her beautiful. Not long after that, she meets and falls in love with Grant Funkyerdoder. Shortly after, they meet each other’s parents, plan the wedding, and even have their wedding crashed! This has to be one of the most inept productions I’ve ever seen. Most of the jokes are lame and fall flat. Even though I laughed boisterously during their great Kill Bill spoof (featuring Ben Stiller, reprising his character from Dodgeball), the movie just doesn’t work.