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  Date Movie
Director: Aaron Seltzer Plot: Not Even Worth Mentioning!!
Writer: Aaron Seltzer
Starring: Alyson Hannigan
  Adam Campbell
Tony Cox
Genre: Comedy Cert: Critic -
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Date movie is an attempt to send up the recent spate of relationship comedies which are outrageous/gross out. There in lies my first problem. How can you send these films up, and why would you try? American Pie, Meet The Parents et al are send ups themselves of the gentler (i.e. girl orientated) relationship comedies. To me it's about as necessary as a send up of Airplane. It just doesn't work.

As a film, this is, at best, directionless drivel. Random gags are inserted, poorly executed and forgotten as quickly as a Colin Farrell relationship. In fact almost everything about this film screams crap. I say almost because the one decent area of this film is, surprisingly, the acting. Of course decent is relative, it certainly wouldn't be a highlight in a film such as Man On Fire, but compared to the material the cast work hard. Alyson Hannigan is, well, cute and bubbly. She bounces around the screen with enthusiasm, when in reality she should have been hanging her head low for being involved in such dog drool. Even the Hugh Grant, foppish Englishman wannabe is fairly entertaining. Highlight of course is Eddie Griffin, who can take any material and make it, well, better than it has a right to be.

Overall this is a film to seriously avoid, I laughed out loud a few times, but it wasn't enough to save a poor, poor movie. Disappointing, roll on Scary Movie 4!