{"id":3310,"date":"2010-04-20T12:39:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2010-04-20T12:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:39:12","slug":"movie-review-date-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=3310","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: Date Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Maggie Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s sad when the one and only truly funny line in an American comedy is spoken in a foreign language and you have to get the punch line by reading it in the subtitles. Such is the case with the much-anticipated comedy, Date Night<\/em>, starring two of the hottest comedians in the business: Steve Carell and Tina Fey.<\/p>\n

Not only is the funniest line in Hebrew, but it\u2019s one of the rest you can more or less count on the fingers of one hand. Carell and Fey are adorable performers with the material they\u2019ve made their fame and fortune on: Carell in The Office<\/em> and Fey as a mainstay of the Saturday Night Live<\/em> and 30 Rock <\/em>crews.\u00a0 They\u2019ve both branched out into feature-length films (Get Smart<\/em>; Baby Mama<\/em>) without real success.\u00a0 And, though they\u2019re giving their characters in this story the old college try, the result is rather embarrassing at best and painful at worst.<\/p>\n

As average, busy burbanites with two kids, Claire and Phil Foster are discovering that their old get-up-and-go in the bedroom has got-up-and-went.\u00a0 He\u2019s a tax consultant and she\u2019s a real estate agent; or, in Claire\u2019s words, \u201cjust a dull couple from New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Afraid they\u2019re becoming \u201cexcellent roommates,\u201d Phil decides a night in New York City is just the remedy—ignorant of the fact at their dinner destination that at the prices the popular seafood restaurant charges, the \u201ccrab better sing, dance and introduce us to the Little Mermaid.\u201d\u00a0 Having forgotten a little detail like reservations, the Fosters are shuffled off to wait at the crowded bar, where Claire begins to think they are in a \u201cplace that isn\u2019t us.\u201d<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t know the half of it, when Phil gets the bright idea to pretend that he and Claire are two no-shows by the name of Tripplehorn, in order to grab their reservation.\u00a0 At first the deception is fun and the food is fine.\u00a0 Then, two sinister-acting men Phil and Claire think are the restaurant\u2019s bouncers, order them outside\u2026.and, it\u2019s as if Alice had gone through the looking glass.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, the story turns into middling malarkey posing as a satirical thriller featuring a mobster (Ray Liotta), a corrupt District Attorney (William Fichtner), a bare-chested, muscle-bound security agent (Mark Wahlberg), two dim whit blackmailers (James Franco; Mila Kunis), a valuable flash drive and a private club where the \u201cboring married couple\u201d get to improvise. This is the only hysterically funny moment in the film—the buildup to a live sex show starring themselves.<\/p>\n

Extracting themselves from their mistaken-identity dilemma will provide the couple with opportunities to demonstrate the daring, resourceful and deeply caring sides of their personalities regular married life had more or less suppressed.<\/p>\n

Writer Josh Klausner\u2019s prosaic mush strands Carell and Fey in a narrative wasteland that deprives them of the kind of comedy sketch material with which they are consummate geniuses.\u00a0 Director Shawn Levy should have deep-sixed the crudities and given Carell and Fey permission to ad lib to their hearts\u2019 content their natural affinities for classic, clean-cut screwball inventiveness.<\/p>\n

Although Date Night<\/em> feels more like a blind date that didn\u2019t work out, most people will more than likely hope that Carell and Fey make another date to co-star in something more worthy of their talent. \u00a0A 20th<\/sup> Century Fox release, rated PG-13 for sexual and crude content, language, some violence and a drug reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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