This article is about the spoof. For the genre, see romance film. Date Movie is a 2006 spoof of romantic comedies, which was directed and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, two of the writers of the first Scary Movie. It stars Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Sophie Monk, Eddie Griffin, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge and Mauricio Sanchez. The film was released on DVD on May 30, 2006. A sequel is planned, possibly for a 2009 release[citation needed]. The film was rated PG-13 for continuous crude and sexual humor, including language. There is also an unrated version on DVD. It was critically lambasted as a bomb, although it garnered a respectable bow in its opening weekend. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Plot
The movie starts with the main character, Julia Jones, an obese woman, having a dream about marrying Napoleon Dynamite. It turns into a nightmare when Napoleon turns around and rejects her. Julia wakes up screaming and goes to her diary to write an entry. She thinks she will never find her true love. This article is about the movie. ...
Julia goes outside and dances to impress men on the streets. It doesn’t, as her obesity gets the best of her--one man even shoots himself in the head with a nail gun.
Later on, Julia goes to work at her dad’s Greek diner. Her dad, Frank, suggests she gets married. He likes humus spray and squirts it on her mole. He suggests Nicky, an ugly, stupid, grimey man. She then meets Grant Fockyerdoder, her later-to-be husband. Grant is attracted to her, and vice versa. Julia's dad yells to her to get an order, she turns to respond and hits Grant over the head with the coffee cup she's holding, knocking him to the floor. She turns back around only to find his table is suddenly empty and figures he ran away.
Julia realizes she will never find her true love at this rate, and she goes to see a love therapist, Hitch. At first, Hitch rejects her but Julia says she is desperate and walks off. Hitch, feeling guilty invites her in. Julia explains about the guy at the diner and thinks it will be impossible for him to fall in love with her. Hitch takes her to a garage where she gets "pimped out" into a beautiful woman. She earns a spot on a reality TV dating show and the bachelor is the man she met at the diner, Grant. Grant greets all the women and is handed a shotgun for the elimination round. Grant shoots all the other women, leaving Julia. They win a dinner for two at "A Restaurant". A hitch is a knot tied in a rope and used to secure that rope to a rigid object. ...
The two leave the restaurant and head back to Julia’s apartment where they have sex. Julia suggests that Grant meets Julia’s parents.
Now we see a big house, similar to the one in Meet The Parents. Grant and Julia are sitting together along with Julia’s parents, Frank and Linda. There is tension between Frank and Grant. Grant goes to the bathroom to see Jinxers, the family cat farting continuously on the toilet, similar to the cat in Meet The Parents using the toilet. Things get a lot worse when Grant attempts to open a bottle of champagne and the cork hits a vase that contains Frank’s mother's remains, and the problems only get bigger when Jinxers begins humping the skeleton. Meet the Parents is a 2000 comedy film starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. ...
Later, Julia and Grant are walking down a street and Grant takes Julia to a jewelry shop. There, Frodo, Sam from Lord Of The Rings try to pawn off the Ring, with Gandalf pleading that the Ring could "destroy all evil." Ignoring him, Frodo accepts fifty dollars; they then beat up Gandalf and run off to "get some wine coolers...and hookers!" They run out of the store. Grant then confesses he loves her and pops the question. Julia happily says yes. Dust jacket of the 1968 UK edition The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy story by J. R. R. Tolkien, a sequel to his earlier work, The Hobbit. ...
Now it's Grant's turn to take Julia and her family to meet his parents. This spoofs Meet The Fockers, as Grant’s father, Bernie, is practicing a strange martial art (Capoiera). This meeting doesn’t go well either, as Roz, Grant’s mother, informs everyone that Grant lost his virginity to their gay housekeeper, Eduardo. Frank secretly brings along Nicky as well and talks to Julia. He says that Nicky has agreed to marry her and she has no choice. Julia runs off, devastated. Later, Frank and Bernie have a one on one basketball game. Things get bad when Frank gets a huge taste of Bernie’s chest hair (parody of the basketball scene in Along Came Polly). Along Came Polly is a 2004 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg. ...
The next day, Julia and Grant go to a wedding planner. The wedding planner suggests they go to Taco Butt [or Taco Bell] but they want something a little fancier. She is offended and refuses to plan their wedding.
Julia finally gets the chance meet Andy, Grant’s best man, at the swimming pool. Of course, Julia assumes Andy is a man, but she is really a woman and is a lot more attractive than Julia. Julia is even more horrified when she finds out that the two were engaged less than a month ago. Andy helps Julia shop for her wedding dress. At the dress store, Julia hits her head on a power box and finds that she can read peoples thoughts. She reads Andy’s mind and finds out Andy wants to wreck Grant and Julia’s wedding and take Grant back. Julia changes into a Kill Bill costume and fights with Andy. What Women Want is a [[2000 in film|2000](with fantasy elements), directed by Nancy Meyers and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. ...
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Julia grows depressed and has thoughts that she’ll always be the fat woman she used to be. She goes back to Hitch and tells him about Andy. Hitch reckons she doesn’t stand a chance against Andy. But if she does stand a chance, then everything will be fine in the end.
Julia grows confident again and figures that she just has to make it through the wedding rehearsal at her dad's diner; then, only one day until their wedding. There, Andy shows up and talks to Grant about how he’s using Julia to get over her, but Grant resists and ignores her.
The big day has arrived! But unfortunately, Julia wakes up with a big zit on her face. She eventually pops it, but is late for her wedding. Meanwhile, Andy finally tells Grant how she feels about him, and that Julia doesn’t deserve him. She wants to marry him but Grant steps up and says he wants Julia. Andy ignores him and kisses him. Grant drags Andy off and sees Julia, who has caught them in the act. Julia runs back to her apartment and is surrounded by balloons, gifts and letters from Grant. Julia cannot forgive Grant and agrees to marry Nicky. Once at the alter with Nicky, Julia is regretting it and has flashbacks about her and Grant. Frank, realizing this, stops the wedding and tells her she doesn’t want Nicky. Grant is the one for her. (He saw it in her flashback) Frank shows Julia a magazine with a picture of Grant and a message. It says to meet him on the rooftop of her apartment building. After an epic journey--throwing Andy down a stairway, bashing someone on the head with a baseball bat to get their bike--she gets there, only to find she just missed Grant. She leans her hands on the railings, causing it to snap and falls right into Grant's arms. It is very emotional but they get back together and get married. The priest is Hitch. Andy and Nicky are attending the wedding. The two kiss and enter a relationship. Meanwhile, Grant and Julia leave in a horse and carriage. Julia also gets a present from her mother: a vaginal thermometer which apparently has been in their family for generations.
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The movie ends with Grant and Julia attending their honeymoon on Kong Island. They see a woman (Carmen Electra) tied up by two pieces of wood. King Kong comes on and rips off Carmen's dress and she is clad in a leopard print bikini. Kong then assumes to feel her up (which she enjoys quite a lot) and then says to him, " I like hairy boys." Kong roars and smashes her like a bug. Tara Patrick redirects here. ...
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Cast Alyson Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress who plays Lily Aldrin in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. ...
Adam Campbell (born Adam Jones) is an English actor. ...
Sophie Charlene Akland Monk (born December 14, 1979) is an Australian pop singer, actress and occasional model. ...
Jennifer Coolidge (August 28, 1963) is an American comedic actress. ...
Fred Willard (born September 18, 1939) is an American comedian and character actor, known for his improvisational comedy skills. ...
Eddie Griffin (July 15, 1968) is an American comedian and television/film actor. ...
Joseph Anthony Tony Cox (born March 31, 1958) is an African-American actor from United States. ...
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Valery Milagros Ortiz (born August 1, 1984 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican actress who is best know for her role as Madison Duarte on the television series South of Nowhere. ...
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Thomas Lenk (born June 16, 1976) is an actor best known for playing the character of Andrew Wells in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ...
Judah Friedlanders first official introduction to showbiz was actually as a soundman on future star Chris Rocks short Who is Chris Rock?, but ten years later, Friedlander started getting in front of the camera as a comic actor, following appearances on the now defunct series Lateline as a...
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Joshua Dylan Meyers (born January 8, 1976 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American actor, best known for being a cast member of the American sketch comedy MadTV // Meyers was raised in Bedford, New Hampshire. ...
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Deleted scenes There were some scenes in this movie that had to be blocked out or changed, but available on the Unrated edition. They are: - At the beginning Julia is on a horse and gets knocked off and at one point she is on the cell phone and asks, "Can you hear me now?"
- In the beginning in the dream sequence, after the Napoleon Dynamite character says gosh, he runs back and falls to the ground.
- When the two men are dancing, they dance for a much longer time than the theatrical version
- The scene where Jinxers is on the house is much longer than in the theatrical version.
- When Julia is asking Little Jack questions from cards, she actually asks Little Jack four questions instead of only two questions in the theatrical version.
- When Grant and Julia visits Jell-o, the Wedding Planner, they walk in and she introduces herself, and then she says Funkyerdoder then we cut to her walking to her desk where we see her extremely large buttocks. She takes a pencil and sharpens it by using her buttocks. She gets up to tell Julia and Grant where they can get married, her chair is stuck to her and she yanks it off and ends up flying across the room, and goes over to her desk and takes out a picture and suggest that they get married in a trash filled boat called Garbage Barge. She tells Grant that they need to find a best man and then uses her buttocks to throw a lamp across the room and smash it to pieces on a desk. She knocks her desk over, and two women appear mysteriously and all three of them dance for a while. The two women leave and Jell-o begins backing up towards Grant and Julia, who scream, but are eventually knocked over by Jell-o's extremely large buttocks.
- The scene in which Julia asks Hitch for help after she finds out that Andy still has a thing for Grant, his response is Do I look like Will Smith to you?
- When the Owen Wilson parody appears at the wedding, he gets crushed by a camera man that is sitting on a tree.
- In the last scene, the cavemen are shown eating popcorn which was not in the theatrical version.
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Non-Domestic US$ $36,247,230
World-Wide US$ $84,795,656
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The DVD comes with an English, French, 2 commentaries, a commentary featuring two critics who apparently did not like the film, and a laugh track.
Trivia - Frank has eight nipples, a reference to a deleted scene from Scary Movie.
- The old cat woman that lived in the apartment across from Julia is played by the same actress that played the old lady who was undercover in Not Another Teen Movie.
- In the scene where Sophie Monk imitates the Carl's Jr. commercial, she displays her disgust for meat on the audio commentary, citing she is a vegan. This is seen in the ending credits where Sophie is seen eating the burger, then scrunching up her face and spitting it out.
- Hugh Grant was filming a movie at the same studio where Date Movie was filmed. When Alyson Hannigan had to get from her make-up trailer to the set with the exaggerated pimple on her face, Hugh ran into her and asked "What are they doing to you?" (This is because Hugh saw Alyson in her fat suit ensemble.)
- Although a sequel has already been planned, some fans are considering to turn it into a trilogy.
- The pus and the liposuctioned fat is tapioca pudding.
- The hair on Grant's face at the end is yak hair.
- In France, Date Movie is called Sexy Movie.
- In Italy, Date Movie is called Hot Movie.
- In Bulgaria, Date Movie is called Romantic Movie
- The theatrical poster is a double entendre in itself. It can be seen as an indirect reference to masturbation.
- During the credits it is shown that the directors poured green slime on Carmen Electra as a prank during the King Kong scene.
- In the Pretty Woman scene where Grant cross dressed as a woman in Beverly Hills, the set of clothes he wore is actually the same set worn by Julia Roberts back in the original movie.
- In the part of the movie where Julia is getting a makeover, Pimp My Ride style, she gets a TV put into her stomach which is never seen again throughout the entire movie.
- In the HBO version, Grant's surname was changed to "Funkyerdoder" to make it sound less obscene than that in the DVD version.
- The scene where Grant holds up a boombox outside Julia's bedroom to win back her heart is a spoof of the famous "boombox scene" from Say Anything.
- When Julia is riding the yellow motorcycle to get to the rooftop of her apartment, you can cleary see a black person as her stunt double riding the motorcycle.
- The main protagonists' names (Julia, Grant) are likely a nod to actors Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, who are best known for starring in romantic comedies.
- When they are meeting Andy and the song Don't Cha is playing you see Andy with a gold bathing suit, then during the same song when she is cleaning the car you see her with a black one, but then you see her wearing the gold one again
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