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Date Night (Extended Edition) (With Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
Director: Shawn Levy
Actors: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Taraji P. Henson, Common, Mark Wahlberg
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Retail Price (not our price): $39.99
Release Date: 2010-08-10
Theatrical Release Date: 2010-04-09
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Run Time: 88 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Discs: 2

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/10/2010 Run time: 102 minutes Rating: Pg13

2) Amazon.com
Tina Fey and Steve Carell are two of the most charming performers in entertainment today. Their goofy attractiveness makes them a perfect couple in Date Night: an unremarkable husband and wife from New Jersey, they get mistaken for crooks in Manhattan, sending them on a wild night replete with snooty wait staff, crooked cops, glitter-specked strippers, a shirtless superspy (Mark Wahlberg, as buff as ever), and a preposterous car chase. The movie makes no effort to be remotely plausible and the last third really goes off the rails, and it would probably be better served by less familiar faces in minor roles (bit parts are played by Mark Ruffalo, Kristen Wiig, Common, James Franco, Mila Kunis, William Fichtner, and Ray Liotta). It's disappointing that the dialogue doesn't crackle the way it does on 30 Rock or The Office. But Fey and Carell carry the movie along through sheer nerdy pluck. Rarely does a couple in a movie seem genuinely devoted to each other, not out of wild passion, but for all the things that a real marriage is built on: patience, shared humor, a willingness to deal with day-to-day annoyances, and simple affection. Fey and Carell seem like a couple you'd actually enjoy going out to dinner with. In today's world, that's more romantic than sunsets and bouquets of roses. --Bret Fetzer


Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5

1) Under-Used Talent   [Rating: 2 out of 5]
It felt as if I was reading the script, instead of watching the movie. And, that's not a good thing. I kept thinking, "insert cliched joke here," "plot twist goes right about here." The movie is simply too trite and never made me laugh out loud. Perhaps the producers relied too heavily on the fact that they had two of the funniest people in the movies on screen. Carell and Fey do their best and are really able to take a poor movie and raise it to mediocrity. That alone is impressive. In the end, it was a movie I didn't mind watching, but I would've been disappointed if I had spent full price at the theater.Chris BowenAuthor of Our Kids: Building Relationships in the Classroom

2) Worst Movie Ever   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
The first part of the movie was really bad (including the attempts at humor); I don't know about the second half -- I just couldn't take any more -- six references to penis humor in less than a minute seemed to be excessive. There was no redeeming value in this pathetic attempt...

3) Not great, but you could do worse   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
I had heard that "Date Night" was terrible, but it wasn't that bad. While Steve Carrell and Tina Fey do versions of their characters from "The Office" and "30 Rock," it's a lot better than "Evan Almighty" or the really bad "Baby Mama" as there are a lot of fun cameos and just enough good lines to make up for the bad ones. Two and a half stars rounded to three.

4) A PERFECT Shopping Experience!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Item was brand new and arrived in perfect condition MUCH faster than published delivery estimates!Great service ant a Great Price! Highly Recommended!

5) A charming, big-hearted comedy   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I saw this in the theater twice with different friends and then watched it again last night with my husband. Even on the third viewing, I was laughing out loud. Now admittedly I enjoy almost all comedies (even dumb ones) and I'm a huge fan of both Tina Fey and Steve Carell. If you don't like Frey in 30 Rock or Baby Mama or Carell in 40 Year Old Virgin or Little Miss Sunshine, of course you're not going to enjoy this movie; the actors aren't breaking any new ground here. I found Date Night not only funny but charming, one of the most enjoyable comedies I've seen recently. While the couple fights at times, ultimately they are genuinely kind and enjoy each other. The humor isn't mean-spirited and snarky, like, for example, Get Him to the Greek or Grown Ups. (I loved Get Him to the Greek, btw, and hated Grown Ups, which was too dumb even for me.) Date Night manages to be warm-hearted but not sentimental or cloying. It's refreshing. I will say it gets off to a very slow start, showing us how boring the couple's life is, but once Fey and Carell are running around the city, the pace picks up and the movie gets very funny. (Ridiculous but funny.) It's worth watching just for a truly hysterical scene with James Franco and Mila Kunis. Plus, there's the funniest pole dancing scene ever.


 
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