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Date Night (2010)

Director: Shawn Levy

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From Time Out London

This dumb and mostly fun fish-out-of-water comedy would be more dumb and much less fun if it wasn’t for some amusing casting and a punchy running time that acknowledges the limits of its script. Tina Fey and Steve Carell are Claire and Phil Foster, a married New Jersey couple with a damp sex life and a damper social diary who decide that a ‘date night’ away from the kids is well overdue. But when Phil, in a moment of unusual boldness, steals the reservation of the mysterious ‘Triplehorns’ in a trendy Manhattan restaurant, they find themselves the unlikely target of gangsters headed by a self-mocking Ray Liotta. The script is lowest-common-denominator stuff – mistaken identity, car chases, strip clubs, boat rides – but the rapport between Carell and Fey is easy to warm to and an episode involving a shirtless Mark Wahlberg as an old friend of Claire’s who challenges Phil’s uneasy masculinity provokes genuine laughs. Fey and Carell are better than this, but when the other options in the action-romcom territory include such efforts as ‘The Bounty Hunter’, who’s complaining?

Author: Dave Calhoun

Time Out London Issue 2070: April 22-28, 2010

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Adam said...

Posted on Sep 24 2010 01:55 I thought this film was fantastic. =] it was catchy and very funny =] i loved it and ive already bought it lol Tina and Steve are excellent working together and i think that there is nothing wrong in working in a film like this as it has pleased more than dis-pleased =]

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irreverent gardener said...

Posted on Aug 24 2010 12:59 Loved the film - tina and steve's characters were always endearing and, often, hilarious. It irritates me when critics purport to speak for anyone other than themselves. Every review by a pro critic should be qualified to say that their opinion counts no more than your next door neighbours, yet they seem to think they have superior taste. I could watch this film over and over gain, not because it demands intellectually, but because it makes me laugh and smile each time.

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vero said...

Posted on May 05 2010 16:35 It was great! Love Tina Fey. Still laughing about it, definately getting the dvd when it comes out. It's not woody allen but sort of 'silly funny if you know what I mean.

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TRUTHTELLER said...

Posted on May 02 2010 11:07 Forgot to rate it again so I'll give a four to even it out but it's actually more like three.

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TRUTHTELLER said...

Posted on May 02 2010 11:05 Forgot to rate it.

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colino said...

Posted on Apr 28 2010 11:18 Probably one of the wosrt so called comedies ever made...every minute seemed like an hour

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TRUTHTELLER said...

Posted on Apr 25 2010 17:42 From the title you might think that this is another teen dating move but it's actually a fairly funny movie about a married couple who have reached a rut in their marriage.
It's funny in spots and downright hilarious in others. I especially liked the crash with the taxi.
It's not an original idea. The couple go downtown for dinner to dinner and when they can't get a table in a restuarant they pretend that they are a couple who have yet to show for their reservation.
The couple they pretnd to be have considerable trouble on their plate-figuratively speaking-and the laughs follow.
Steve Carrol always looks kind of sad but he looks to be having one hell of a good time with Tina Fey. Pairing the two together was a great idea. Tina Fey is funny in 30Rock on tv and she and Steve Carroll are great together here.
They should make more movies together because this is quite entertaining escapism.

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Nkoyo said...

Posted on Apr 15 2010 09:03 Saw it yesterday and thought it was hilarious. May not be up to the standards of the great movie critics but for normal people I would recommend this. Really funny and I really love Tina Fey's type of comedy.

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