Review: Date Movie **1/2

This movie can be compared to seeing a monkey smoke a cigarette: it's funny at first, but gradually gets old after about a half hour. It's a parody of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, and Hitch, along with about twenty other tinier parodies. It's about a big fat girl named Julia who works at her parent's Greek coffee shop. (An interesting note on her family: her father's black, her mother's Indian, and her sister's a Japanese Future Sarcastic. The funny part is that she specifically states that no one in her family has ever dated out of their culture.) She runs in to a pretty-boy English guy named Grant, who then leaves bizarrely. For help, she finds a date doctor named Hitch (who's a midget) who gives her a Pimp My Ride style makeover. After the makeover, guess what? She turns into Willow from Buffy! Anyway, she goes on a reality-dating show where Grant is the prize! What a coincidence! She wins and goes on a date with him to A Restaurant (yes, you heard me, A Restaurant). They see each other's parents and eventually Grant proposes.
The best man is Grant's hottie ex-fiancee Andy (yes, you heard me, best man) who is actually plotting to split Grant and Julia. As much as guys might want to see this movie, I still think it should be considered a romantic comedy. As much as I liked the Scary Movie franchise, this one is not on my "Buy" list.