Date Night Review: "The Movie Where Fey & Carrell Got Unfunny"

Fey: "No Steve. Stop Calling NBC...We're Stuck In This Thing"

Do you like Tina Fey of NBC's 30 Rock fame? How about Steve Carrell from NBC's The Office? Well, you're going to love the endearing and whimsical romantic comedy, Date Night. Our stars play a boring married couple from New Jersey who need to reignite their romantic spark. How does it turn out, you ask? Kind of terrible. Not just because the story falls apart midway through the strip club scene, but the movie takes so long to get the point ... to fall apart. Judging Date Night on the individual star contributions, the flick is tolerable and funny at times. Like most blind dates, Date Night started with an open and honest heart and ended boring and not worth my time.

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Fey and Carrell are coming from two critically lauded shows that are losing their luster because of stale material and dry shtick. So why not put this adorable pair in a movie so America's twenty and thirty-somethings can re-fall in love with them all over again? For those who are still hardcore Fey and Carrell fans don't worry about getting lost in the deep character layers of The Foresters. Tina Fey can only play Tina Fey, the smarmy wise-cracking love-lorn independent woman. Carrell is still Carrell is a lovable oaf who only succeeds by accident. It is interesting to see this witty pair play off of each other, because of their natural talent. That and there really isn't anything else interesting in the movie. Somehow the couple is mistaken for James Franco and Mila Kunis [long story]. The mob and crooked cops get involved over a flash drives, which will no-doubt date the movie worse than the shameless Kindle advertising midway during one of many tedious scenes.

Kunis & Franco Play Whippit & Taste. They Provided Four Of The Seven Laughs Found In Date Night

The supporting cast barely make the movie watchable. Where James Franco and Mila Kunis breath life into this tired journey of whimsy -- its Mark Wahlberg who is the most believable character. With Common, Taraji P. Henson and Ray Liotta how sad is it that Mark Wahlberg -- who plays an ex-military Black-Ops soldier, is the most enjoyable. The scene with The Foresters and the cab driver [J.B. Smoove] seemed to suck all of the funny out of Date Night, but it wasn't until that Kindle popped out of the glove box that I was sure it did.

Not Even Wahlbergs Pectorals Can Distract Carrell From This Awful Script.

Date Night is the worst movie I've seen both Steve Carrell and Tina Fey in. This movie almost feels like a favor or community service an NBC executive had to cop to in order to get out of producing another sub-par reality show on the network. Date Night tries to break the stereotypical 'rom-com' formula, by showing two witty and attractive forty-somethings conquer the world in one night. They fall back into the stereotype when trying to display the harsh truths of life after marriage which deals heavily in not finding your spouse attractive. This married couple also has a zany circle of friends who have their own divorce and relationship issues. I guess the goal of Date Night was to depress the audience into a catatonic state and therein any comedy of action to be had seemed entertaining. We can do better. Can't we?

I Give Date Night...

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The "Fake Phone Number Award"