.....movie was fine until strip club and perverse politician. I will say go instead of average for Steve Carrell. The man knows comic timing and always is entertaining. Not rolling in the aisles funny,just enjoyable. Please look for carNtires review. It says it all,regarding the stupidity and dumming down of decent material to appease those who always need smutty material to call something good. I wish there was just plain more class in America.

The Fosters, played by Steve Carrell and Tina Fey (both great comedians in their own right), are your typical family couple, they have two young children and they work hard to provide a great life for them. Steve Carrell plays an accountant and Tina Fey plays a real estate agent. Like many couples, they have a "date night" where they typically go to a family restaurant and usually order the same meal. The couple finds out that two of their best friends, also a married couple, are splitting up because they feel they have just turned out to be "really great roommates." Afraid of turning into the couple that is splitting up, Fey and Carrell try to spice things up by going to a snooty seafood restaurant in Manhattan. Of course there's no reservations available, so Carrell has the idea of taking some other couple's reservation. That one small act turns into a zany adventure with crooked cops, exotic dancers, & car chases. Go for laughs and action and root for this unbeatable comedic duo.

And I really want to! Date Night is witty funny,silly funny, and relatable. Carrell and Fey are such naturals in their art. I just hate that so many good movies have to have a strip club scene. Yes,they did make it comedic for the main stars,but other unneeded dancers,and the politician being so ...yuck..just really bugged me. Same thing could have been accomplished another way-perhaps the pol having 'escorts brought to a hotel room or something.Or a drug problem or bribery. Something without ****. Good Comedy though.I saw it twice!

It really surprised us. We were thinking cheesy, but it worked. We don't watch trailers on purpose because they give away so many good parts. We were happy to see some big name actors appear in the movie. It's the bumbling detective story, but the main characters are not stupidly bumbling like in Pink Panther, but everyday me or you could be there bumbling. Go see it! I doubt anyone will read my review since the spammers at one particular website has taken over. I hope and pray Fandango will stop them!

Overall, this movie was great fun. Despite so-so reviews from snooty critics, we "average American," real-life married folk found it to be highly entertaining. The audience was laughing out loud throughout the film. My only criticism is the same I have for many other films: It is full of unnecessary bad language and sexual content. This movie is funny all by itself. It just doesn't need all the foul language and perverse content. It could have been equally funny without it. Nobody would have missed it. Nobody would have complained. I just don't get why Hollywood continues to throw swearing, potty language, anatomy lessons and X-rated themes into PG-13 films. Seriously, their target market here isn't 13-year-old boys. I'm baffled. I enjoyed the film, but had to work hard to overlook the unsavory language and content. I didn't mind too much until the movie went into a strip club toward the end and, I felt, hit the wall. Fun movie, but fans deserved better treatment