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Fey, in particular, seems uncomfortable with the shenanigans.
Fey, in particular, finds herself in the situation of a prima ballerina unaccountably dancing with the Rockettes.
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.
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.
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.
The screenplay, by Josh Klausner, proves that the easy laugh isn't always the best.
... Works as an action-comedy precisely because its characters do not know they are in either a comedy or an action movie.
Ultimately, and thankfully, it's saved by its stars, who carry it all to safety as often as they can.
Date Night takes two funny people, puts them in unfunny situations, and has them do and say unfunny things.
Funny duo packs in the silly sex jokes, plus minor gun play.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This weak-kneed comedy is guilty of many sins.
A delightful screwball comedy that has sequel written all over it!
full review at Movies for the Masses
The combination of America's two best comedic talents in Steve Carell and Tina Fey makes Date Night a film worth watching.
Date Night succeeds chiefly in making the work that its two stars do on the same major television network seem anything but mainstream.
While the Carell/Fey pairing looks like a winner on paper, Date Night somehow just isn't that funny.
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