Date Movie
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- This article is about the film. For the film genre, see romance film.
Plot
Movies spoofed are Say Anything, Moulin Rouge!,Bridget Jones' Diary,Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Kill Bill, Napoleon Dynamite, Hitch, ', ', King Kong, Fight Club, Along Came Polly, Shallow Hal, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, When Harry Met Sally, Pretty Woman, Legally Blonde, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Jerry Maguire, Notting Hill, Sweet Home Alabama, Monster In Law, Mean Girls, Spider-Man 2, , What Women Want, White Chicks, Princess Diaries, The Birdcage, The Notebook, Meet the Parents, The Wizard of Oz, Freaky Friday, Bend It Like Beckham,The Wedding Planner, My Best Friend's Wedding, and Wedding Crashers. Also parodied are television shows Pimp My Ride and The Bachelorette (Nina Avetisova appears in this particular parody), Paris Hilton's Carl's Jr. / Hardee's advertisement, and Michael Jackson. The film also spoofs the TV series' , Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy and The Price Is Right. There is also a reference to the television advertisements for the Girls Gone Wild videos and the internet phenomenon Bumfights. Candy Shop by 50 Cent was also parodied by the film.
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% "Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.Box office
In its first week of release, the film grossed a total of 21.8 million dollars at the United States Box office.As of March 19, 2006, the film grossed a total of 46.5 million dollars in the United States Box Office.
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 much of scenes that are unrated, mostly on 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, , and Desperate Housewives.
- The song 'Do You Believe In Magic' is a possible reference to Alyson Hannigan's role in .
- 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 13 notes of "Dixie" (Dukes of Hazard)
- 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.
Cast
Julia Jones played by Alyson Hannigan.
- Alyson Hannigan as Julia
- Adam Campbell as Grant Fockyerdoder
- Sophie Monk as Andy
- Jennifer Coolidge as Roz Fockyerdoder
- Fred Willard as Bernie Fockyerdoder
- Eddie Griffin as Frank Jones
- Nina Avetisova as Bachelorgirl
- Bridget Ann Brno as Bridget Jones
- Carmen Electra as Herself (The natives chant her name)
- Valery Ortiz as Jell-O
- Andrea Ferrell as Deaf Woman
- Tom Fitzpatrick as Gandalf
- Judah Friedlander as Nicky
- Gianfranco L'Amore as Native King Kong
- Marie Matiko as Betty
- Josh Meyers as Napoleon and Owen Wilson from Wedding Crashers
- Edward Moss as Michael Jackson
- Mauricio Sanchez as Eduardo
- Meera Simhan as Linda
- Nadia Dina Ariqat as Britney
- Matt Austin as Fireman
- Nick Steele as Kevin
- Lil Jon as himself
- Jinxers as the cat
- Beverly Polcyn as Old Cat Woman
External links
- [Official site]
- [}}}] at Rotten Tomatoes
- [}}}] at [Yahoo! Movies]
- [Clips from Date Movie]
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