This was just a goddamn mess from start to finish. I knew it was going to be lame. The names Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are not synonymous with quality. But I didn't expect it to be such a Frankenstein's monster of cliched tropes masquerading as a spoof. This doesn't make fun of date movies, it just throws a bunch of things you recognize into a blender and tries to pass that off as a joke.Julia Jones (Alyson Hannigan) is looking for love, but as a fat waitress in a Greek diner it's a little hard to come by eligible men. Her prayers are answered, however, when she meets Grant (Adam Campbell), a cute doctor who likes her despite her fat-suit. Julia isn't satisfied with her appearance so she goes to the date doctor, Hitch (Tony Cox), who takes her to West Coast Customs for a pimped out makeover. Now looking like Alyson Hannigan, Julia hopes she and Grant will live happily ever after. If they can survive her parents (Eddie Griffin and Meera Simhan), his parents (Fred Willard and Jennifer Coolidge), and his man-eating "best man" Andy (Sophie Monk) long enough to get to the altar.
It's lazy, it's stupid, and it scrapes the bottom of the barrel for comedy. It's not worth your time, even as an endurance test to see how much you can take.
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