Date Night (2010)

All Critics (222) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (150) | Rotten (74) | DVD (13)

Fey, in particular, seems uncomfortable with the shenanigans.

January 3, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

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?

April 22, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Dave Calhoun

Time Out

Top Critic

Fey, in particular, finds herself in the situation of a prima ballerina unaccountably dancing with the Rockettes.

April 12, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

In three or four scenes, they get a rhythm going, but the editing is smash-and-bash. Shawn Levy is not a director who honors performers' rhythms.

April 12, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Tina Fey is really funny. Steve Carell is really funny. Date Night stars Tina Fey and Steve Carell. Ergo, Date Night must be really ... sorry, I wish it worked that way almost as much as the studios do. But no.

April 9, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Its slapstick story of a married couple enduring outrageous fortune offers a lot of laughs, a bit of romance and plenty for either sex to relate to.

April 9, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

As believable as the story is, it's strange that the filmmakers didn't do more with the talent they had on hand.

October 1, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Date Night is only ever moderately funny; partially entertaining; quite exciting. It bears the mark of a cinematic no-mark; a bland director whose cast members deserve way better than him.

September 28, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Levy knows better to simply stay out of the dynamic duo's way and let them do their proven thing.

April 8, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

... Works as an action-comedy precisely because its characters do not know they are in either a comedy or an action movie.

November 5, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Ultimately, and thankfully, it's saved by its stars, who carry it all to safety as often as they can.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

Date Night takes two funny people, puts them in unfunny situations, and has them do and say unfunny things.

March 9, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Funny duo packs in the silly sex jokes, plus minor gun play.

December 30, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Renee Schonfeld

Common Sense Media

It stumbles along as you're forced to sit through quite a bit of umming and aaahing and a car chase that lasts five minutes too long.

October 29, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Katina Vangopoulos

Moviedex

The screenplay never takes any particularly sharp, or even interesting turns. Needless to say, North By Northwest is not in risk of losing its crown as the funniest and most-action packed mistaken-identity caper.

October 21, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Date Night is the perfect three-star comedy. It's not going to set the world on fire, but you'll wish that the rest of the cookie-cutter rubbish coming out of Hollywood was at least this consistently funny and enjoyable.

August 24, 2010 Full Review | Comments (6)

Matt Neal

The Standard

Thank you, Hangover, for making overly calculated screenplay 101's posing as off-the-cuff works of controlled insanity the norm for mainstream middlebrow comedy.

August 19, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

If you don't go into this thinking you're going to be laughing constantly, Date Night is a funny film and a fun time.

August 17, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

If you don't go into this thinking you're going to be laughing constantly, Date Night is a funny film and a fun time.

August 17, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

James Plath

Reel.com

This weak-kneed comedy is guilty of many sins.

August 11, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Chris Barsanti

PopMatters

A delightful screwball comedy that has sequel written all over it!

August 6, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

• 1. Phil Foster: I have no idea how to respond to that! Eff you!
  2. Taste: Eff me? Eff you!
  3. Phil Foster: Eff you!
  4. Taste: Eff you, man! What are you doin' here?!
  5. Phil Foster: Eff you, mother effer!
  – Submitted by Cody H (8 months ago)
• 1. Phil Foster: Zip your face!
  – Submitted by Zaineb T (8 months ago)
• 1. Phil Foster: Oh my god he turned it sideways! ITS A KILL SHOT ITS A KILL SHOT!
  – Submitted by Taylor R (11 months ago)
• 1. Phil Foster: Will you, for the love of God, put on a shirt?
  – Submitted by Inka T (20 months ago)
• 1. Claire Foster: The one night I dress up...
  – Submitted by Inka T (20 months ago)
• 1. Claire Foster: We're just a boring couple from New Jersey!
  – Submitted by Inka T (20 months ago)

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