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Parents' Guide to

Date Movie

By Cynthia Fuchs, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 15+

Gross-out comedy that mocks romantic movies.

Movie PG-13 2006 83 minutes
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Based on 5 parent reviews

Accurate P.
Accurate P. Parent of 16-year-old
June 9, 2023
age 13+
1 person found this helpful.
meydiana.rizki
meydiana.rizki Parent of 18+-year-old
November 9, 2022
age 18+

Yikes! Too awful!

Too awful for their acting! I really regret going to the movies to see this and the 75 minutes i spent watching this movie which i will never ever get. This movie is absolutely rote and the acting is awful. The parodies they did in this movie were so bad. In the first 10 minutes of the movie I saw 3 people get up and leave. They didn't return. The same happened at 20 and 30 minutes. These were all kids. There wasn't a single laugh in the theater. Hardly anyone stayed at the end. Don't rent this movie at all - it isn't worth the $1 rental price. I really regret ignoring peoples advice that saw the movie "Dont see this movie! It is awful" Aaron Seltzer who directed the movie really doesn't know how to make movies. I really wanted to give this 0 stars but instead the lowest possible rating is 1 star. Officialy in my top 10 worst movies I ever seen in my life. I don't think Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg should be able to make movies again after Epic Movie,Date movie,Meet the Spartans,Vampires Suck.

This title has:

Too much violence
Too much sex
Too much swearing
Too much consumerism
Too much drinking/drugs/smoking
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What's the Story?

Obese and poor-complexioned, Julia (Alyson Hannigan) laments her dating prospects even as her father (Eddie Griffin) urges her to marry a filthy, stringy-haired local guy (Judah Friedlander). But Julia falls for the gorgeous Grant Fonckyerdoder (Adam Campbell), whom she serves at her father's Greek Diner. In order to win Grant's heart, Julia undergoes a makeover in which she's treated like a car on Xzibit's MTV show, Pimp My Ride. This leaves her svelte and gleamy, Hannigan looking perfectly adorable and sultry at the same time. She heads off for advice from date doctor Hitch (Tony Cox). He sends her to pursue her man, whom she wins over.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (5 ):
Kids say (16 ):

Alyson Hannigan deserves better; in fact, we all deserve better than DATE MOVIE, a slow-witted assembly of every date movie joke we've already seen. The film's "comic" strategy is to pile on references to other movies, as if the references themselves are jokes. But reminding viewers of iconic moments from Meet the Fockers, Pretty Woman, The Wedding Planner, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Wedding Crashers, Napoleon Dynamite, Hitch, and Star Wars, among many, many others, only reminds you why you might have liked the first version, and doesn't excuse or explain the cheap knockoff.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about how this kind of humor influences kids and their developing relationship to their sexual lives. They can also ask what would happen in real life if these situations occurred. Since the target group for this movie is young teens who are emerging into their own sexuality, it's important to have a discussion that balances out the movie's humor with respect for the opposite sex and for sex itself.

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