Date Movie is a not-too-clever film

Date Movie

Directors: Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer

Cast: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Eddie Griffin

Spoofs of well-worn standards - horrors, westerns, musicals, spies - are difficult to pull off since they become, by their very nature, spoofs in themselves.

How, for instance, could you spoof a Carry On film?

Or, as here, a romantic comedy?

With the co-writers also doing the double as directors the danger of over-cooking has been truly realised.

This is a dismally unfunny and unromantic mish-mash of a film that fails utterly to gain our sympathy, enthusiasm and interest.

Star Rating: 1/5