Metacritic Movie Ratings
Date Movie Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 67

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  In Date Movie, the hormones, anxiety, and princess jealousy that fuel the majority of Hollywood love stories are made so excessive that the romance itself is revealed to be...every bit as big a crock as it usually is.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York TimesAnita Gates

  Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, who wrote the screenplay, have crammed dozens of movie parodies into this deliberately juvenile spoof of romantic comedies. Mr. Seltzer, who directed, has made very few of them funny.

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• 20

  out of 100

  VarietyJoe Leydon

  Arguably the lamest of all the free-wheeling genre parodies that have taken flight since "Airplane!," Date Movie is stupefyingly unfunny in its attempts to mock romantic comedies, celebrities, reality TV shows and anything else that pops into the heads of its creators.

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• 20

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano

  The only thing remotely resembling parody in this depressing waste of time and money is Jennifer Coolidge's sendup of Barbra Streisand as an over-the-top string of Jewish mother clichs.

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• 10

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen

  This crass drag of a dud at best manages to elicit just a couple of half-hearted chuckles over the course of its 80-minute allotment.

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