Steve Carell as Phil Foster and Tina Fey as Phil’s wife Claire are your ordinary New Jersey couple with kids. They go to work, come home and deal with their kids. Once a month, they have a date night. They go to the same restaurant and have the same food all the time.
After finding out their good friends are getting a divorce, they start thinking about their marriage and decide to mix things up by going to a new place for date night. They head into the city to try out a hot, new place. In order to get in, they claim to be another couple, Taste (James Franco) and Whip It (Mila Kunis), who have missed their reservation.
Come to find out, the other couple stole from a big mob boss, Joe Miletto (Ray Liotta), and everyone thinks Phil and Claire are their assumed identities. On the run, trying to get to the truth while avoiding getting killed in the process is what awaits the Fosters on their date night.
Holbrooke (Mark Wahlberg) is an ex-real estate client of Claire’s who helps them find what they are searching for. Armstrong (Jimmi Simpson) and Collins (Common) play dirty cops chasing after the Fosters. Detective Arroyo (Taraji P. Henson) is the cop in search of the truth about the Fosters.
The movie starts off slow and is hard to pay attention to, but once the pair reaches the city, the movie changes pace. With multiple jokes and one-liners, the movie proves to be funny and entertaining. Carell and Fey seem to hold back a lot, however, and had they not, it could have been a roll-on-the-floor-laughing comedy. The cars scenes are the best and make the flick action-packed. I would see it again but not until it comes out on DVD and I can fast forward through the beginning. I recommend this movie but caution about the pace.
Date Night was directed by Shawn Levy, who also directed Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Pink Panther (2006), Night at the Museum (2006), and Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009). Date Night premiered April 6, and the 88-minute comedy/romance/thriller is rated PG-13.
Steve Carell as Phil Foster and Tina Fey as Phil’s wife Claire are your ordinary New Jersey couple with kids. They go to work, come home and deal with their kids. Once a month, they have a date night. They go to the same restaurant and have the same food all the time. After finding out their good friends are getting a divorce, they start thinking about their marriage and decide to mix things up by going to a new place for date night. They head into the city to try out a hot, new place. In order to get in, they claim to be another couple, Taste (James Franco) and Whip It (Mila Kunis), who have missed their reservation.
Come to find out, the other couple stole from a big mob boss, Joe Miletto (Ray Liotta), and everyone thinks Phil and Claire are their assumed identities. On the run, trying to get to the truth while avoiding getting killed in the process is what awaits the Fosters on their date night..." />
Come to find out, the other couple stole from a big mob boss, Joe Miletto (Ray Liotta), and everyone thinks Phil and Claire are their assumed identities. On the run, trying to get to the truth while avoiding getting killed in the process is what awaits the Fosters on their date night..." />
Carell, Fey hold back on 'Date Night'
Published: Thursday, May 6, 2010
Updated: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 17:05
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