First off, some questions : Does watching a cat making love to a corpse work as funny ? No. Does watching a cat while excreting work as funny ? No. Does eating someone's chest hair in slow motion then spitting it as a hairball work as funny ? No. Does seeing one shot for about 4 consecutive times (while Kill Bill's parody) work as funny ? No. Does Eddie Griffin's ugly and freaky make up work as funny ? No. Rather do Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg make good parodies with a material that anyhow works ? HELL NOOOOOOOOOO !!! Believe it or not, (Date Movie) is a smart movie in its core. Hollywood's romantic comedies have turned into one very predictable movie, being played continually with slight changes here and there. So, when the saturation happens, the interest decreases, the sarcasm increases, and so the parody is born. Seltzer and Friedberg, who have worked among many writers in the first (Scary Movie) in 2000, selected this subject for their first movie as independent dual, and that was about the only right thing they did! So why is that ? Firstly they choose "comedies" to parody ?? (the list contains My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, The Wedding Planner, and else). Now how to spoof a comedy ?! It's like eating an already eaten food ! Then, they resorted to incredibly sick situations and jokes, which push you to puke, not laugh (masturbating old woman, licking pus ????!!!!!!!!). And to make it worse, they put some toilet humor, and lengthened the basically unfunny gags (Jell-O dancing, the excreting cat). So, their movie ended up as promising comedy at heart, yet with emetic and cheap everything.The toilet humor used to be "marginal" part of the parody movie since its boom in the 1970s. But Seltzer and Friedberg came to make it "essential" during the 2000s. In fact, watching their solo movies exposes who were the ones responsible for the dirty stuff in the first (Scary Movie). So, in their series of parodies, the idea of spoofing correlated with farting, feces, and the like; to an extent makes any clever idea stray in the giant shadow of the toilet humor. This simply produced "the dirty parody", which is easy to write, mean to watch and painful to remember, giving the parody movie its worst days ever !True this movie has a taste for the bad taste comedy (the cat excretes, in a long scene, then cut to the lunch scene?? How they dared to put eating food after THIS ?!). But the thing is, it even oversteps "disgusting" to "creepy". Still the scene of breaking the vase to see the decayed corpse of the mom shocks to the furthest limit. It sure belongs to a nasty horror movie, not a comedy. The moment of the cat making love to the corpse later assures that Seltzer and Friedberg aren't super ridiculous only, but psychologically ill as well ! Good points ?! Well, I liked the "Forever And Ever" song. Despite being based on one of (My Best Friend's Wedding) moments; it was the sole inspired thing around. And Sophie Monk's sexy moments. Although I'm no fan of her, but in this ocean of filth, her presence represented a lovely small island as something beautiful, rather human !(Date movie) is trivial stupid unfunny joke. However, compared to Seltzer and Friedberg's next works; it's the most solid and creative to date. Now to a point that eats me; at one moment, the movie's heroine, played by Alyson Hannigan, says "as if I'm trapped in a bad Mel Gibson movie", meaning (What Women Want). Ahhh, how impudent !! Because when (Date Movie) calls (What Women Want) "bad", then it's like (George W. Bush) calling (Einstein) dim-witted. At least (What Women..) had an original story, you morons !

Date Movie is a horrible movie with a story that doesn't really go anywhere,although I will admit it makes a better effort than movies like Epic Movie and Disaster Movie,it's only that and that I like Alyson Hannigan are the only reasons I'm didn't give this one out of ten.Other than that,this movie is awful,one of my least favourite things about it is Jennifer Coolidge,an actress that really annoys me that plays an even more annoying version of Barbra Streisands character in Meet The Focker.Julia Jones (Alyson Hannigan) loses a tone of weight to look good for a man she plans to marry,but has to meet his weird parents and ex-wife,who still wants him.

People really need to realize that in order for a parody to be good, it has to be cheesy and in other words, bad. I know it's a paradox, but that is the only genre it is actually applied to. I was surprised to see the average rating of all newer parody stuff on IMDb: Date Movie, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, Vampires Suck, etc. They all have 2.something average rating and it's mostly because people are not well informed on the whole concept of this genre.For a parody to be successful, it has to take elements from real life and/or movies/other media that are seemingly serious, but cheesy, little overrated, over the top, inaccurate, ignorant, full of prejudice... etc. So, the good mocking of this just HAS to go a bit further to make the vague inaccuracies more obvious and laughable. I think that this movie succeeded in that. Everything that is bad or over the top is INTENDED to be so, hence, planned and I like it.Alyson Hannigan and Adam Campbell have good chemistry and acting skills and I enjoyed their performances very much. Adam is an underrated actor and he needs more recognition overall. Also, the cast is full of talented parody performers, like Jennifer Coolidge, Eddie Griffin and Tony Cox.For anyone who doesn't particularly find romantic comedies good, and considers them cheesy and overrated, this is the film. It's particular 'victims' are precisely romantic comedies, mostly My Best Friend's Wedding, Meet the Fockers, Wedding Planner, Hitch, Bridget Jones' Diary, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and most wedding films.Alyson Hanigan's character is named Julia Jones, parody of Bridget Jones and Julia Roberts, and Adam Campbell plays Grant Fockyourdaughter, parody of Hugh Grant and Fockers. Sophie Monk's character is parody of Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding and typical 'bitch' characters, Tony Cox is Hitch, Julia's family is mostly parody of My Big Fat Greek Wedding family with all national prejudice in it. All the characters are hilarious and deliver their puns on time. I was laughing all the time, it's so on spot about all romantic clichés. The moment at the end, with all the most cheesy love declarations ever is my favorite, I can't restrain from laughing hard at that point.Also the films contains Jinxters, the most disgusting cat you just have to LOVE! Let's just mention he doesn't restrain from gerentophilia and necrophilia. His scenes are so disgustingly nauseous, but one of the funniest ever! I will probably never get tired of watching this and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves good laughter and mocking romantic clichés.It's 9/10 in everything it was supposed to be no matter what critic say!

This film falls far short of "Scary Movie", or it sequel, even in comparison to the terrible third and fourth. And that's really, REALLY, saying something. The jokes are predictable, being composed of pathetic fart jokes, potty humor and random cursing and innuendo. I literally sat through the whole movie with a blank face and wondered what drives a studio to the point of desperation to release this kind of a movie? The only entertainment I got out of this blunder was the "anit-commntary" when I had rented it. You heard me right, an anit-commentary. So, the film makers knew their work was so lackluster they actually paid two critics to make fun of their own creation. I'll be damned. Wow, the only movie that makes you feel stupid for even renting it in the first place.