10 Awful Movies How I Met Your Mother Actors Want Us To Forget

With major roles in Buffy and the American Pie franchise behind her, Alyson Hannigan joint HIMYM with the greatest profile (perhaps aside from Harris), and yet her career doesn’t boast nearly the highlights of her contemporaries besides the aforementioned pop cultural sensations. This is particularly true on the big screen, where a succession of poor choices led to the leading role in Date Movie.

Perhaps the nadir of the ‘00s spoof boom, Date Movie was as lazy and distasteful a way to spend 90 minutes as you could imagine, and poor Alyson Hannigan has the misfortune to appear in almost every scene. It’s worth saying that the failure of the film is in no way her fault - she throws herself into every sketch and pastiche in the vague hope of salvaging the project.

It’s unsalvageable, though - settle in for an hour and a half of lame gags at easy targets (fat suit work that Eddie Murphy would blush at), out of date parodies, nonsensical references (a lengthy recreation of that famous rom com Kill Bill) - there’s no depths they won’t plumb here.