Steve Carrell and Tina Fey are delicious in silly marital action-comedy
(NEWSER) - In Date Night, married suburbanites Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire Foster (Tina Fey) go for dinner in Manhattan and, through a series of predictably absurd twists, end up dodging thugs and crashing cars. This comedy-action hybrid doesn't win points for originality, but is saved—for some critics, just barely—by its talented and likeable stars.
- TIME calls this flick "a lively, often astute piece of marital sociology." This "cinematic happy hour for Mom and Dad" doesn't even "need a pulse to draw an audience," writes Mary Pols. Luckily, she says, it has one.
- Date Night succeeds as "popcorn entertainment" because Steve Carrell manages to "take a tired premise and make it so delicious, your gut hurts," writes Ramin Setoodeh on Newsweek .
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