DATE NIGHT 2.0***
This is a date night movie ONLY if you want it to be the last night you’ll have with your date….but then again it may be such a bad mutual experience, you’ll re-bond and the relationship will survive.
I was quite disappointed in the movie because I’m such a BIG fan of Tina Fey and Steve Carell. Yet this one missed the mark fairly badly and it turned out to be more like a bad “blind” date. I put the blame on the poor screenplay and poor direction. What a huge loss of great comedic talent. ..it would have been much better if Fey and Carell had written the script themselves. In fact, this is borne out when they run the funny out-takes from the movie where Fey and Carell are ad-libbing and being extemporaneous.
The basic plot line is Fey and Carell are married, have kids, and the relationship is tired and in a rut. They decide to do a big date night at a high end restaurant on the spur of the moment and don’t have reservations. They get there and discover that they may never get a table so they pretend to be another couple , the Tripplehorns, who are no-shows when their reservations are called. All goes well for a while until 2 thug-like guys show up and escort them out to the alley and flash big guns . Their lives are threatened unless they produce a computer chip with apparently very valuable information. They try to explain that they are not the Tripplehorns but that doesn’t fly with the thugs but they manage to escape and they and the story are off on a mad, or for the viewer, madding, adventure trying to straighten out the mess.
I knew early on this was not going to be a good movie. In fact, I don’t recall laughing until the out-takes began to run. How bad can that be when you have 2 of the funniest comedians of the day. That’s really bad..on the verge of horrible.
Save your money and take your date to dinner or go see or rent a fun “feel good” romantic comedy in “She’s Out Of My League”.
Clark