Date Movie 2006

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: [Mocks] movies that were much funnier than this one. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: A lame pastiche of Hollywood romances. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: It's kind of amazing that a joke-a-second comedy like Date Movie doesn't contain a single laugh, but what's there has been so thoroughly focus-grouped and market-tested that no joy escapes the vacuum. Read more

Bobby Hankinson, Boston Globe: If their goal was to make a spoof film with heart, the end result has an irregular beat at best. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Dudes, does a spoof count as a spoof if it's dumber and more obvious than the thing it's spoofing? Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: Any movie that tries to parody Kill Bill and Dodgeball in the same scene is OK by me. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: You have to be hungry for comedy that's salty and loud, that hits your palate with all the delicacy of hot grease. If you're in that mood, a handful of these jokes will likely be just what you crave. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The targets here are Hollywood's bubbleheaded romantic comedies, but director Aaron Setzer (who co-wrote the script with Jason Friedling) doesn't satirize the genre's familiar tropes so much as merely re-stage familiar scenes. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: It is ultimately an exercise in redundancy, since there's little point in creating a comedy that sends up other comedies. The end result is more a knockoff than a parody. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's not enough to just make the reference. You've got to make something funny out of the reference. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Date Movie is stupefyingly unfunny in its attempts to mock romantic comedies, celebrities, reality TV shows and anything else that pops into the heads of its creators. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice: It takes a certain gall to pass off mere references as jokes. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: These are sight gags best appreciated with a blindfold. Read more