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| Date Movie rating: ZERO STARS (out of 4 stars) United States; 2006 Directed by Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer; produced by Paul Schiff; written by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer Starring Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Crispin Glover, Tony Cos, David Carradine, Fred Willard, Carmen Electra 'Date Movie' is a movie that should not have been made. Watching 90 minutes to an empty screen would have been as good as this, maybe even better since it would be nice and quiet. The filmmakers do not know what comedy is, and I can't understand why they want to show it to us. It spoofs comedy films mostly, not a smart plan, and does not change the joke from the original film. Of course they exaggerate it, or make it more disgusting, but the joke is basically the same. The main story is taken from 'Meet the Fockers' and that gives me a nice example. The starting joke there was, of course, the last name being "Focker". It was subtle enough, but very obvious at the same time. Here the last name is "Fockyerdoder", less subtle but exactly the same obvious joke. This happens with moments from films such as 'Hitch', 'Along Came Polly', 'One Night at McCool's', 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith', 'What Women Want', 'My Best Friend's Wedding' and many more. We have Alyson Hannigan, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge and Eddie Griffin, all being so unfunny it hurts. I liked Hannigan's dancing sequences though, having at least one positive thing to say here. Also passing is Carmen Electra who is in quite a lot of these spoof films lately. For example, in 'Scary Movie', a film that at least understood the basic principles of spoofing. Not all jokes worked, but around the same amount did. If you don't know what a joke is, as showed here, it's quite hard to put them in your film. |
| Review by Reinier Verhoef |
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