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Date Movie Review

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Dave White Profile

… the worst movie of 2006. Read full review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 1.0
    11

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Overwhelming dislike
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 10

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Michael 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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  • 20

    out of 100

    Variety Joe 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 Times Carina 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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  • 30

    out of 100

    The New York Times Anita 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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  • 67

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen 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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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

Not for kids 16 and under

Gross-out comedy that mocks romantic movies.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this film is comprised of relentless obnoxiousness. Body and bodily function jokes include gastrointestinal distress, coughing up hairballs, moles, and pimples (one popped to release lots of goo); a chicken wing stuck between a girl's teeth, body makeover in the form of "Pimp My Ride" (hair removal, liposuction, a sander for yellow toenails, a drill taken to girl's body); cat using the toilet with much farting and grunting; urn with grandma's ashes also includes skeleton (which cat proceeds to hump, sexually); and cats are tossed about in an old woman's apartment. Sex and "date" jokes include horrified reactions to obese girl (her breasts turn around on her body as the soundtrack plays "Milkshake," which includes sexual references); sloppy and extensive kissing; arranged marriages; boy's last name (Fonckyerdoder, reference to "Focker"); couple exchanges lyrics of 50 Cent's "Candy Shop" (sexual references); allusion to "knocked up"; uses of "ho" and "bitch"; a cat smokes a cigarette, apparently after sex with old woman.

  • Families can talk about how this kind of humor influences kids and their developing relationship to their sexual lives. They can also ask what would happen in real life if these situations occurred. Since the target group for this movie is young teens who are emerging into their own sexuality, it's important to have a discussion that balances out the movie's humor with respect for the opposite sex and for sex itself.

The good stuff
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    Messages: Tedious, unimaginative gags about sex and dating; though the daters find true love, it's hard to care because they're only one-dimensional bases for jokes.

What to watch for
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    Violence: Comic violence, but gross and sometimes brutal (Grant shoots and kills bachelorettes on Extreme Bachelor; kids on a date express their "love" by beating up a homeless man).

  • sex false3

    Sex: Women wear tight outfits and show cleavage; references to gay men (Julia thinks one is interested in her, Grant has an ex-boyfriend), diner features neon sign that shows man tongue-kissing a sheep; "date doctor" has OB-GYN on his office door; kissing is repeatedly excessive, involving licking and slobbering; Jello (joke on J-Lo) has huge behind; Grant appears to fake an orgasm in restaurant (copying Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally..., and also rubbing his nipples); Julia emulates "Girls Gone Wild" video, removing her bikini top in a hot tub (covered with a superimposed bar); Grant and Julia kiss passionately and pull of clothes, then scene cuts to post-sex conversation in bed; Andi mimics Paris Hilton and others (wearing bikini, wet, gyrating, rubbing hamburgers and other foods on her body).

  • language false3

    Language: Obnoxious language, used frequently: s-word, "damn," "crap," "hell," "ass", "d--khead" (written), slang for sex ("lots of tail").

  • consumerism false3

    Consumerism: Rediwhip; Vagisil; Cosmopolitan magazine; T-Mobile Sidekick; Trio 650.

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Cat smokes cigarette, references to smoking in a diary.

Fan Reviews provided by

5

Date Movie by wizardboy
I like this movie because they actually dissapear into all these kind of suits and places

1

Horrible by SolidSnake85
Everyone says this movie is really bad. Even though I enjoyed some arts of it, I agree to the people that this movie is horrible. I mean one scene when Eddie Griffin was going "I'll be watching you" he wasn't even looking at the ******* road! Very poor special effects. Aaron Seltzer made it so disappointing for the crowd.

5

dmmr by moviesrulz5
it was soooooooooo dang funny. it rocled.

3

by corbinleach

3

by lomeli_melissa

4

by royboy713

1

by damienmarks

3

by William Thacker

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