Date Movie
At first, Hitch rejects her, but Julia says she is desperate and walks off. He suggests Nicky (Judah Friedlander), an ugly, greasy, man.It is very emotional but they get back together and get married, with Hitch officiating. Later, Frank has a one-on-one basketball game with Grant s father, Bernie (Fred Willard).
Once at the altar with Nicky, Julia is regretting it and has flashbacks about her and Grant. She eventually pops it, blowing her to the back of the room and knocking down a wall, but she is late for her wedding.
Meanwhile, Grant and Julia leave in a horse and carriage. The rehearsal dinner spoofs the big dinner sing-along in My Best Friend s Wedding, including a spoof of I Say a Little Prayer .
The film was released on DVD on May 30, 2006. Hitch, feeling guilty, invites her in.
She then meets Grant Fockyerdoder (Adam Campbell), with whom she forms an instant attraction. Grant is the one for her (he saw it in her flashback).
Julia is even more horrified when she finds out that the two were engaged three weeks ago. Frank yells at Julia to get an order, she turns to respond and hits Grant over the head with the coffee pot she s holding, thus knocking him to the floor.
Frank secretly brings Nicky along, telling Julia she has no choice but to marry him. There is immediate tension between Frank and Grant.
There is also an unrated version on DVD. The movie starts with the main character, Julia Jones (Alyson Hannigan), an obese woman, having a dream about marrying Napoleon Dynamite. Date Movie is a 2006 American parody film, which was directed and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, two of the writers of the first Scary Movie.
The scenes with Andy are a spoof on Pretty Woman with Grant playing Julia Roberts part. Grant goes to the bathroom to see Jinxers, the family cat, defecating loudly and continuously on the toilet.
Jell-O suggests they go to Taco Butt (spoof on Taco Bell) but they want something a little fancier. Grant then confesses he loves her and proposes to her.
King Kong comes on and rips off her dress leaving her clad in a leopard print bikini. They see a woman (Carmen Electra) tied up to two pieces of wood.
She wants to marry him but Grant steps up and says he wants Julia. It says to meet him on the rooftop of her apartment building.
Frank, realizing that Julia is unhappy, stops the wedding and tells her she doesn t want Nicky. Grant greets all the women and is asked to eliminate the losing women, which he does by shooting them.
Things get a lot worse when Grant attempts to open a bottle of champagne. She goes back to Hitch and tells him about Andy.
There, Andy shows up and accuses Grant of using Julia to get over her, but Grant ignores her. The big day has arrived, but unfortunately, Julia wakes up with a big pimple on her face. She is offended and refuses to plan their wedding. Julia finally gets the chance meet Andy (Sophie Monk), Grant s best man, at the swimming pool.
Julia also gets a present from her mother-in-law: a vaginal thermometer which apparently has been in their family for generations and is regarded as good luck when it s not washed. The movie ends with Grant and Julia attending their honeymoon on Kong Island. Frank shows Julia a magazine with a picture of Grant and a message.
Then, Frodo (Tom Lenk), Gandalf (Tom Fitzpatrick), and the other hobbits from The Lord of the Rings try to pawn off the One Ring, with Gandalf pleading that the Ring could destroy all evil . She earns a spot on a reality TV dating show called The Extreme Bachelor, the bachelor turning out to be Grant, the man she met in the diner.
Hitch takes her to a garage where she gets pimped out into a beautiful woman, similar to the Pimp My Ride TV series. This meeting doesn t go well either, as Roz (Jennifer Coolidge), Grant s mother, informs everyone that Grant lost his virginity to their gay housekeeper Eduardo (Mauricio Sanchez), similar to the housekeeper in The Birdcage.
There is a small reference to Save the Last Dance. 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. Kong then assumes to feel her up (which she enjoys) and then says to him I like hairy guys .
At the dress store, Julia hits her head on a power box and finds that she can read people s thoughts, a spoof of What Women Want. The cork hits a vase that contains Frank s mother s remains, and the problems only get worse when Jinxers begins humping the skeleton. Later, Grant takes Julia to Tiffany & Co., where they turn on the lights to reveal the salespeople ready to let her pick whatever she wants, just like in Sweet Home Alabama.
Andy and Nicky meet at the wedding, and fall in love. It turns into a nightmare when Napoleon turns around and dumps her.
She leans her hands on the railings, causing it to snap and falls right into Grant s arms. Grant pushes Andy off and sees Julia, who has caught them in the act and runs away. Days later, Julia goes back to her apartment and is surrounded by balloons, gifts and letters from Grant.
Meanwhile, Andy finally tells Grant how she feels about him, and that Julia doesn t deserve him. Of course, Julia assumes Andy is a man, but she is really a woman and is a lot more attractive than Julia.
Julia finds from reading Andy s mind that she still has feelings for Grant and plans to split the two of them up. It doesn t, as her obesity gets the best of her - one man even shoots himself in the head with a nail gun when he sees her dancing. Later on, Julia goes to work at her dad s Greek diner.
Hitch reckons she doesn t stand a chance against Andy — but if she does, then everything will be fine in the end. Things get bad when Frank gets a huge taste of Bernie s chest hair (a recreation, not technically parody, of the basketball scene in Along Came Polly). The next day, Julia and Grant go to a wedding planner named Jell-O (Valery Ortiz), a spoof on the singer Jennifer Lopez and the movie in which she starred, The Wedding Planner, who has a huge butt (a reference to Jennifer Lopez famous posterior).
Julia and Andy fight each other in the style of Kill Bill. Julia grows depressed, fearing that she ll always be a lonely fat girl. Much of the story line was based on that of the well-known romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Julia runs off, devastated. She turns 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 (Tony Cox).
The hobbits then turn and beat up Gandalf and run off to get some wine coolers.. Her dad, Frank (Eddie Griffin), suggests she gets married.
Julia happily says yes. Kong roars and flattens her like a bug. Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 77th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 6%. The film was released on DVD on May 30, 2006 and 1,051,878 units were sold, bringing in $18,777,476 in revenue which accounted to amost the entire budget of the film. .
She thinks she will never find her true love. Julia goes outside and dances to impress men on the streets. 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.
Julia is the last woman standing and is rewarded with dinner for two at a restaurant ironically called A Restaurant . It stars Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Sophie Monk, Eddie Griffin, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge and Mauricio Sanchez. It was critically lambasted, although it garnered a respectable bow in its opening weekend.
Julia explains about the guy at the diner and thinks it will be impossible for him to fall in love with her. Andy ignores him and kisses him.
Andy helps Julia shop for her wedding dress. She cannot forgive Grant, however, and agrees to marry Nicky.
Julia wakes up screaming and goes to her diary to write an entry. Ignoring him, Frodo accepts the offer of $50.
After their meal, Julia and Grant head back to her apartment, where they have sex. Julia takes Grant to meet her parents, a spoof of Meet the Parents. and hookers! Now it s Grant s turn to take Julia and her family to meet his parents, in a spoof on Meet the Fockers.
