Okay, Date Night, I’m glad I wasn’t on a date night while seeing this, because it would be inappropriate how loud I laughed at this. But here’s the caveat, it is not the great wonder that I was expecting out of the actors
in this movie.

Date Night stars Steve Carell and Tina Fey as a married couple needing a night out to salvage their droopy normal lives. After taking another couple’s reservation at a restaurant, they must escape the dangerous
alter egos they embodied to arrive home safely.

With this movie, you the viewer are supposed to recognize with the characters as if these are your friends, and they got the two people I would hire to do these roles, I mean they already do it for a living. And it
being a comedy, you’d be stupid not to be trying to get these two. IT’S TINA
FEY AND STEVE CARELL; they are pretty much the mom and dad of modern
sit-comedy. And when they told the jokes, it felt like my parents were comedians,
and that helped me recognize with the characters. Now the only thing that makes
me not give this a screaming “GO OUT AND SEE THIS!” is that the first part,
their normal lives, is so slow and it kind of drags on and on, and you are
hoping somebody trips over something so you can get to the action faster. But I
know they needed to do that because they had to set up the story. And the other
reason is that we’ve seen this formula before. And they do it well.

Steve Carell will always find a way to make me laugh, mostly through his portrayal of regional manager Michael Scott on The Office. And this role is kind of seeing Michael Scott outside of the office. Though Carell doesn’t
really go as slapstick as he does with The Office, but you can tell he knows how
to play this role because of experience. You get that personal click with his
character, because it’s kind of like watching your dad on screen. And when he
gets great material in this movie like he did, he knocks it out of the park.

I don’t watch 30 Rock, even though EVERYBODY tells me to. But I was an avid SNL watcher and I know Tina Fey’s comedy, and she doesn’t drift to far from it in this movie. But I guarantee you that she is not Liz Lemon,
but that humor is there, and as a mater of fact, I liked her in this role. She
reminded me of my ma. And she gets to flaunt her stuff as a leading lady in
this flick, but with Carell, you don’t really see that much of their alter
egos. Because she reminded me off my mom, I laughed because that realism was
there.

Now I want to talk about the little roles they filled with celebrities. Leighton Meester played the couple’s babysitter, which garnered my question “why did you get Meester, you don’t need her?” And finally we get the
badass Common (Chi-town represent), and McPoyle (Jimmi Simpson from It’s Always
Sunny in Philly). And the always funny James Franco and Mila Kunis (who will
ALWAYS be Jackie Burkhart to me)

Overall it wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad. 7/10