DATE NIGHT
2 out of 5 stars

this was such a disappointment! this just goes to show that steve carell and tina fey should just stick with their respective roles as michael scott and liz lemon because i'm not sure they're good as anything else other than those characters... :/


basically: phil (carell) and claire (fey) are a simple/boring couple living in suburban NJ. every week they go out for date night to their neighborhood steakhouse, and eat their salmon and potato skins as their date night meal. their kids are left with the babysitter (gossip girl's blair), and it's shampoo/rinse/repeat for them... after hearing about their friends' soon-to-be divorce, phil decides to take claire out to the hippest hot spot in new york city called CLAW to spice things up. unfortunately, the place is sooooo hott that they don't take walk-ins, and are basically treated like NYC's trash from the very get-go. thus, phil comes up with the idea of stealing another couple's reservation, and trouble follows in the form of common (the rapper) trying to recover a lost flash drive AKA computer sticky thing...

i'll tell ya: the entire movie is basically the trailer. there's really nothing new except for the hilarious pole-dancing towards the very end. everything else, just watch the trailer! james franco and mila kunis are very funny as the "tripplehorns", as well as mark wahlberg trying to keep a straight face as hottie/shirtless private security expert holbrooke grant. james and mila have such small roles, but i wanted more from them b/c it looked like they were having more fun than steve and tina. hollywood, take note! ;)