"Date Night"

Comedy and Romance. Rated PG-13. 1 hour, 28 minutes.

In Date Night, Steve Carell and Tina Fey, star as Phil and Claire Foster respectively, go out for a night on the town in Manhattan. After hearing about their best friends getting a divorce, they feel they need to spice up their dull and boring lives.

When they arrive at a fancy restaurant in Manhattan, they find it is packed with people and they have no reservations. While waiting a while, the hostess call out the name Tripplehorn. No one claims the table, so Phil yells out "here!". After stealing someone's reservation, two men approach the table and ask them to go into the alley to talk. The guns come out and the hijinks begin.

The Foster's are mistakenly taken for the real Tripplehorns who are wanted for blackmailing a stolen flashdrive with incriminating information and pictures on it.

Claire, who is into Real Estate, remembers a client who is a security expert, and they go to his place to get an address of the Tripplehorns so they can find this flashdrive and present to these thugs who are after them. The night turns into a night on the run when they are one step ahead of the criminals.

Date Night also stars Mark Wahlberg, Kristen Wiig, Taraji P. Henson and Jimmi Simpson. The film was directed by Shawn Levy. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

I thought it was more of a comedy, but the movie was lacking jokes. To me, it only provided a chuckle now and then.

Overall Rating: D

Photo credit: 20th Century Fox

Date Night movie poster