The greatest movie ever!

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous. Date Night mostly suceeds to Steve Carell's and Tina Fey's charm and chemistry but some of the laughs were a bit of a miss and hit. The cameos were also a bit on and off with me for example Wahlberg was good and so was Gal Gadot but some others? like J.B. Smoove, Mila Kunis and James Franco were weird and not even funny. Overall there are some nice chuckles, 2 great leads and some good cameos but it could have been better to be honest. (6/10)

In order to try and spice up their marriage, Phil and Claire Foster decide to go on a date night at a trendy restaurant in Manhattan. When they arrive at the restaurant, there are no tables spare so they decide to assume the identities of another couple who had booked, but failed to show up at the restaurant. This leads to a case of mistaken identity and forces the Fosters into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a mobster whom is trying to track down a flash drive that has been stolen from him.Date Night has an OK premise and sets itself up reasonably well; the Fosters live fairly stereotypical monotonous lives of your average bored married couple and also have friends who are in the same boat. It's a believable foundation to build the story on, but somehow Date Night loses its way after about the first 20 minutes...Once the Fosters are mistaken for the other couple then it starts to become a chase picture, but sadly like the Fosters marriage it is dull and lacking any sort of spark. Director Shawn Levy does a reasonable job in moving things along and the film had enough chaotic set-pieces to just about hold my attention, but there are few, if any, genuinely amusing moments. Wahlberg answers the door on about 4 occasions with no shirt on and each time he is asked to "Put on a shirt" - this wasn't particularly funny the first time, but to have this joke repeated on multiple occasions showed a real lack of imagination and was just plain lazy. Looking at this picture it's also hard not to be disappointed by the waste of acting talent on offer here; the likes of Wahlberg, Kunis, Fichtner, Liotta and Franco are all in this picture, but their performances all feel phoned in here (particularly Fichtner and Liotta who just don't seem interested at all).What makes the film partly work are the strong performances from Carell and Fey; Carell plays the same nerdy-gawky type that he always plays, but again he does it to good effect here bringing a sort of nervous charm and likability to the role. Fey is also good in her respective role as both the timid housewife at the start, but she shows that she's got a more ballsy side later in the picture.This isn't a funny film and normally with a film as poor as this I would rate it with a lower score. However, I've given this film a 4 out of 10 because, despite how bad the film is, I did think that Carell and Fey were excellent and believable in their respective roles. There aren't enough good points for me to be able to recommend Date Night, but I'm prepared to give credit to Carell and Fey for trying their best to make this film work.

I really do like both Steve Carell and Tina Fey, but I just couldn't get on board and like this movie. I think there are several issues with this movie that caused it to fail. One is just poor writing and lame jokes, I don't remember laughing even once during this movie, which is very strange give that it was a Steve Carell and Tina Fey film. They are both very talented comical actors, I adored Steve in the office and I loved Tina Fey on SNL, who could've played Sarah Palin better? But it takes a lot more than just two talented comedians to make a comedy movie work, you've got to give the actor something to work with, aka good writing. This movie tried to be funny, it really did, but it simply wasn't. The jokes were stale and at times awkward. Also the movie itself was just kind of boring, to me I didn't even feel like it was giving an effort to keep my attention the whole way through. I just felt like I was watching Tina Fey and Steve Carell try to make this bad writing funny, but no one could've done that because it was just so bad. I'll still watch Tina Fey and Steve Carell movies in the future in hopes that they will be better. I've seen ones like baby mama and crazy stupid love that are so good, and it's material like that that lets me know that they really are talented, all actors make mistakes and do bad movies, and I'm afraid for Fey and carrel this was one of them. 1/10

Carell and Fey are the Fosters, an average married couple with children, living in the burbs. After long days working and taking care of their children they do not have enough energy left for romance, not even on their "date night", which seems a compulsory weekly event.One night they decide to dress up and go to New York, rather than to their local restaurant. They want to dine in a fancy place, but without a reservation they are forced to wait at the bar until the opportunity arises to "steal" the reservation of a no-show couple.This premise is already pretty thin: who would actually go without reservation to a fancy restaurant on a Friday night, hoping somehow to "squeeze in"? What follows is yet another take on the mistaken identity theme, done many times before and much better (should I mention "North by Northwest"?)Mistaken for a couple of petty criminals the Fosters have a series of unfunny adventures with cops and criminals. Taraji P. Henson and Ray Liotta are in the supporting cast. Guess who's the criminal and go with the most predictable option.I saw several Carell's movies and most are hit or miss. With a decent plot, Carell can be very funny in his deadpan way. This was not a good plot but a series of gags that could easily be disconnected: meeting with beefy, rich guy to make hubby jealous; pretending to be a pole dancer; the inevitable car chase, etc….The attempt to squeeze in some "daily wisdom for married couples" further ruined any chance to actually enjoy the story. Disappointing.