SummarySteve Carell and Tina Fey team up for an adventure that turns a run-of-the-mill married couple's date upside down - way upside down, in Date Night. (20th Century Fox)
SummarySteve Carell and Tina Fey team up for an adventure that turns a run-of-the-mill married couple's date upside down - way upside down, in Date Night. (20th Century Fox)
For this 21st-century Nick and Nora Charles, the flame is kept alive despite his nighttime anti-snore nose strip and her nighttime bite guard -- thanks to a shared appreciation of the hilarity of nose strips and bite guards.
I have a personal rule not to watch movies under 90 minutes. I don't think enough time is given to plot and character development in under 90 mins. Well, I was watching the first few minutes of Date Night, and loving it, and restarted it from the beginning when my husband came home. He caught that it was on 87 minutes but I was into it so we continued. I must say, this is probably my fav -90 flick I have seen (although I'm not keeping score because I avoid them). The writing was hilarious, the acting superb, and I really enjoyed all the celeb cameos. It's hard to believe it wasn't 2 full hours let alone only 87 minutes. I can't imagine what hilarity was left on the cutting-room floor. And comedies are not at the top of my list of movie genres. I guess Date Night just did it for me. Watch it and enjoy.
Very subjective but I love Carrell. Never seen Fey before but love this movie. Wahlberg is awesome. 10/10
Carrell is genius and camio by James Franco and Milan Kunis is fantastic. District attorney should get a pervert Oscar and Ray Liotta is so believable also. This film is the best midweek movie I've seen ever. Totally miffed I didn't go to a cinema to see it.
It's an uneven proposition, veering wildly from genuinely funny scenes directly into ridiculousness and back again. But every time Shawn Levy's movie makes that journey, it's harder to get back on solid footing.
A broadly promising premise and well-matched stars prove no match for an abominably unfunny screenplay and the work of the poisonously untalented Shawn Levy--arguably the worst director making big-budget studio films today.
Date Night is a hilarious movie that really captures how not so young anymore couples act, the great chemistry between the leads makes it even better, it's ultimately a very hilarious and enjoyable movie.
Date Night is a fine film for a Friday night, just nothing special. It plays into cliches of "the people get thrown into dire situation and rise to the occasion" and "bored married couple's life gets interesting". Nonetheless, it's just typical genre fare in the best sense it can be.
Encore une comédie -américaine- (les deux mots accolés sont un gros mot et un signe avant-coureur de forte médiocrité ou bien pire encore…) avec ici le sémillant Steve Carell (habitué aux rôles de débile) presque éclipsé par la très agitée Tina Fey en milf survoltée !
Mais entre sentimentalisme de supermarché et blagues de bas étage, on a aussi droit à un peu d’action, notamment une poursuite des plus créatives…Le film s’éternise un peu ainsi que son comique (fatigué) de répétition mais parvient à faire sourire ici et là… il garde certainement une bonne humeur très communicative.
Il faut dire que ses facéties assez délirantes se multiplient, y compris jusqu’à l’absurde… ou l’imbécillité plus ou moins totale (même si on a vu pire ailleurs, bien sûr).
Néanmoins, plus on avance, plus le film se délite et sombre presque entièrement vers la fin dans un trop-plein de connerie lourdingue. On aura remarqué en tout cas l’apparition d’une certaine Gal Gadot en copine du gros con Walhberg !
A Film Review By: Sam Fragoso
"Date Night"
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Steve Carrel and Tina Fey are a boring and suburban married couple in "Date Night"
Review
You would suspect the king and queen of comedy would produce a better movie then "Date Night" ..... but they don't.
Here's the premise: a boring married couple out in the suburbs of Jersey, decide they want to go out, have a night to remember. So they go into the New York City to this insanely expensive restaurant. The only problem is they don't have a reservation, so what do they do? They take one, of course (cause so many people do that). Anyways they take this reservation only to find out the reservation they took belongs to this debt owing couple.
Two thugs come up and take them outside and the story goes on from there. "Date Night" delivers hardly any laughs and you would think Carrel and Fey would bring something to the table here. It's really disappointing to see these two comic wonders be stuck in such a flat and poorly written so called "comedy".
I will say though the one up side to this film are the cameos by all the different actors, it kinda reminds you of all the better films they have been in. James Franco, Mila Kunis, Ray Liotta, Mark Wahlberg and J.b. Smoove almost save the film to it's ultimate demise, but "Date Night" is slow paced, boring and extremely predictable, do yourself a favor and pass on this very mediocre movie.
Instead go out and rent "The 40 Year Old Version" (Carell) or "Mean Girls" (Fey) both infinitely better films then this one.
Cast
Steve Carell
Tina Fey
Mark Wahlberg
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