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This article is about the film. For the film genre, see romance film.

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 Sophie Monk, Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Eddie Griffin and Fred Willard. The film was released on DVD on May 30, 2006.

Date Movie
Promotional poster for Date Movie
Directed byJason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Written byJason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Produced byJason Friedberg
Jack L. Murray
Paul Schiff
Aaron Seltzer
StarringAlyson Hannigan
Sophie Monk
Adam Campbell
Eddie Griffin
Fred Willard
Jennifer Coolidge
CinematographyShawn Maurer
Edited byPaul Hirsch
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
February 17, 2006
Running time
83 min.
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million

Parodies

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Movies

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Dr. Hitch (Tony Cox), parodying Will Smith's character in Hitch.
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Hannigan as Julia; overweight at the start of the movie.

Television Shows

Other References

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Andy (Sophie Monk), parodying Paris Hilton's Carl's Jr. advertisement.

Plot

Template:Spoiler The Movie begins with Julia Jones, an overweight waitress who works at her family's greek food diner, 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 the diner, where she serves Grant Fockyerdoder a cup of coffee, and knocks him out. 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 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. After a date, Grant, who was in love with Julia even before she was "Pimped", proposes to her. After a few scenes paroding Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, Grant informs Julia that Andy, who grants wishes to be the best man, will be arriving in town soon. Andy, as it turns out, is a Paris Hilton like woman, who broke up with Grant only 3 weeks before. It is later revealed that 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 marrage, until he calls it off at the last minute, showing Julia a 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. 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.

Response

Reviews

Audience response has been generally negative (though some considered it in the vein of films "so bad, they're good"); it was voted into the Bottom 100 on the IMDb within days of its release. In addition, it performed moderately well at the box office, but received nearly unanimously bad reviews, with a 7% "rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes. It's been snidely referred to as "Yet another Not Another Teen Movie".

Box office

In its first week of release, the film grossed a total of 21.8 million dollars at the United States Box office.

The movie grossed $84.6 million dollars worldwide. 57.4% came from the U.S.

MPAA

Rated PG-13 for continuous crude and sexual humor, including language.

DVD

The DVD has been released on May 30, 2006. The DVD is unrated though there aren't really that many scenes that are unrated, and those that are mostly just contain foul language.

The DVD comes with a English, French, 2 commentaries, an anti-commentary and an audience track from a test screening.

Trivia

  • The scene where Carmen Electra's character gets her clothes ripped was based on censored (but subsequently reinstated) footage from the original King Kong. Also, Electra gets her clothes ripped in the beginning Scary Movie, in which Friedberg and Seltzer also wrote the beginning.
  • Many stores/restaurants are spoofed such as Taco Bell (Taco Butt) and Best Buy (Best Bride). Though Louis Vuitton, Versace and other real clothing brand names appears too.
  • Many Napoleon Dynamite fans thought Jon Heder reprised his role, but it was played by comedian Josh Meyers. Also, Meyers mocked Owen Wilson in one line which is, "Is it too late to crash the Fockyerdoder Wedding?".
  • Chris Harrison plays himself in The Bachelor parody.
  • Frank has eight nipples, a reference to a deleted scene from Scary Movie.
  • Sophie Monk's Carl's Jr. / Hardee's spoof is shorter than the one shown on advertisements with Paris Hilton.
  • The name Fockyerdoder is a joke on the last name Focker from Meet The Parents, though Meet The Parents was also spoofed in several different parts of the 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.
  • "Extreme Bachelor: Desperate Edition" is a combination of the titles of The Bachelor, Extreme Makeover, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and Desperate Housewives.
  • The scene involving Owen Wilson getting crushed by a cameraman is cut. He only appears in one scene with one line.
  • When the RV is driven in, it spoofs Meet the Fockers and Dukes of Hazzard, by changing the horn tune from "Puff, the Magic Dragon" (Meet the Fockers) to the first 12 notes of "Dixie" (Dukes of Hazzard)
  • The scenes involving Napoleon running away and Owen Wilson getting crushed are cut.
  • Lil Jon comes in during dinner to say "What","Yeah", "Okay" ,"Get Crunk" which are his common catchphrases in his songs.
  • The name Julia Jones is actually a combination of Bridget Jones from Bridget Jones's Diary and Julia Roberts, the actress.
  • Grant's name is actually derived from Hugh Grant, who is a very famous British actor known for his roles in romance movies. The directors implemented the word "Very British Grant" in their synopsis as a form of clue to which actor they are parodying.
  • 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.
  • In some versions of the DVD, the word "Fockyerdoder" has been changed to "Funkyerdoder". Details are still unknown at present.
  • In the rehearsal dinner scene, the characters sing a song that is a spoof of "I Say A Little Prayer". An obvious spoof of My Best Friend's Wedding.
  • A deleted scene shows Julia writing in a diary, from the perspective of Bridget Jones, until the real Bridget comes and takes her diary back, slapping Julia.

Cast

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Julia Jones played by Alyson Hannigan, after being "pimped out".
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