How desperate do movie-makers think women are?

Yes, it’s nice there is a whole genre of movies, “chick flicks,” aimed toward us and we are recognize as a viable market worthy of making films for.

Yet it’s atrocious that this genre spawns a movie like “The Wedding Date.”

The waste of space that is “The Wedding Date” is an insult to women. Its plot is definitely “something old” and “something borrowed,” because it samples cliches from other movies ranging from “My Best Friend’s Wedding” to “Pretty Woman” to “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and any other movie aimed at a femal audience.

In this (thankfully) quick, 89-minute flick, Debra Messing stars as Kat, an ariline manager who must fly to her younger sister Amy’s wedding in England. The hitch is, the best man is Kat’s ex-fiance, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield).

Of course, kat isn’t strong enough to go to the wedding alone and hires a male escort (Dermot Mulroney) for $6,000. Nick, the escort, and Kat meet on the flight to Amy’s nuptials, with kat saying, “You know those families that are crazy but you still love them anyways? That isn’t my family.” (Don’t believe her; the movie will try to make you love them, and you won’t.)

Kat and Nick arrive at her family’s estate and Nick is an isntant hit with her family. All the women think he’s adorable and want to have their way with him, and all the men can’t help but notice his infinite wisdom with women.

As Kat and Nick keep up the charade around her family, they start to fall in love. With Kat starting to get over her ex, a few twists are in the works: Amy confesses to Kat that she is “Unworthy of Marriage” and Jefferey is mysteriously in love with someone else. There are secrets that threaten to devastate Kat and leave her feeling betrayed by everyone, including Nick.

Another problem with the movie, besides the boring plot, is that audiences won’t care for any of the characters. kat’s family is more dull than mean; Amy’s cuteness is annoying and forgettable; and Kat’s mother isn’t as atrocious as kat makes her out to be.

The main men int he movie don’t fare well, either. Jeffrey doesn’t appear as the cad everyone makes him out to be, and Nick’s “genuine” moments are worthless: Who really trusts a hook anyways?

And Kat, the star of the movie and the one necessary for an audience to love, is a loser. How could she be so hollow and neurotic as to think she couldn’t get a guy or, much less, that she neeeded one. Tsk, tsk at the message her character is sending to movie audiences.

The move lacks reasonable explanations, too. We’re never told why kat is so despearte and unlucky in love and why Nick is in the business of prostitution.

As old and stale a piece of Miss havisham’s wedding cake, “The Wedding Date” succeeds in dsappointing its audience like a jilted bride ditched on her wedding day.