Date Movie

Directed by: Aaron Seltzer
Starring: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Sophie Monk, Eddie Griffin, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge, Carmen Electra
Running Time: 1h 23min

It's good to see this genre branching out of the Scary Movie mold, and reaching for something ripe for parody, the romantic comedies. However, the creative team uses the same approach to spoofing, and basically makes a sad attempt at "doing" the romance films, as opposed to creating their own story that makes light of the ridiculousness of rom coms.

Hannigan shows off her ability to carry a film (she is genuinely funny, like she was when she stole the show in American Pie) and Eddie Griffin continues to give good supporting laughs. The cameos are funny, though not really too inspired. It just seems that these films just go through the motions, unlike the Granddaddy of them all, Airplane! Considering that genre films seem worse than ever these days, you'd think that spoof films would have gold mines to reap from. Except, spoof movies are so abundant, you almost could spoof the spoofs.

There are some big laugh out loud moments, like the opening "Milkshake" sequence. But with the humour front loaded, it makes the rest of the film sag down. They try to keep up the pace, by moving the scenes along quickly, but it makes it less memorable and believable when the characters are just thrown into one new situation after another. Still, for a free viewing, it has enough laughs to keep you interested. Just don't pay for those laughs, or you'll be crying.