Date Night

Phil and Claire Foster (Steve Carell and Tina Fey) are an ordinary married couple who live in New Jersey. They are experiencing the fatigue that comes with married life: kids, domesticity, all work and no sex. So they decide to get dressed up and go out on a special date. When they take the reservation of another couple at a trendy restaurant, the Fosters become the target for corrupt cops and have to go on the run. This is a typically timid, middle-of-the-road film from the director Shawn Levy (The Pink Panther). It has a few laughs, but not enough. Too much of the comedy is rooted not in the reality of the Fosters’ marriage, but in the silly, cartoonish mayhem of being chased across town by bad guys, but Fey and Carell are good together.