Review:
Many of us have been in relationships where we get to know the other person so well for years and feel comfortable with the other person. So comfortable that we feel as if we are having the same conversations, eating at the same restaurants, and participating in the same routines. The movie Date Night is about one of these couples (Steve Carell and Tina Fey) who is married with kids and afraid that they are playing the same boring roles. Once they see their friends getting a divorce for that very reason, they dress up and plan an exciting date at a fancy restaurant. When there are no tables open, the husband decides to take someone else’s reservation only to find out that the people whose reservation they took are thieves who stole from a mob boss in the city. Carell and Fey are are followed throughout the city by the cops who work for the mob boss and end up trying to clear their names by playing the role of the thieves. The script is excellent as we see the couple switch from roles as husband and wife (acting terrified) to thieves and detectives (but still within their husband/wife personalities).
The movie starts off a little cheesy with the couple stating that clinging empty wine glasses causes bad luck (which they then do in a zoomed camera shot) but ends with a touching line from Steve Carell that I hope to hear one day. Mark Wahlber also plays an excellent role in the movie.
Rating: 3.5 stars
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1279935/
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