Okay, so it's super predictable and unevenly maintained (all the time the leads spend talking about their lives is as boring as they are), but it's pretty funny, overall (it helps when you have Steve Carell and Tina Fey as your leads). Date Night doesn't win any awards for newness (I mean, how many mistaken identity movies are there, already), but it does do a surprisingly nice job of keeping its lightness and humor. Additionally, the parts where Carell and Fey are allowed just to interact with each other (especially the restaurant scenes) are the freshest.
There are lots of smaller parts, with varying degrees of interestingness: Mark Wahlberg plays a security guy/Department of Defense really smart guy who helps the couple find the people they need to find; James Franco and Mila Kunis play the actual couple, Kristen Wiig and Mark Ruffalo play the couple Carell and Fey don't want to become, Taraji P. Henson plays a detective (but talk about a role that doesn't use her full potential), and Serena Williams's boyfriend Common and half of the creepy brothers from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia play rogue detectives.
But none of that really matters, because for this movie, it's all about the leads. If you don't believe them (and I do), the movie has nothing to offer, whereas if you appreciate them, the movie mostly works.
Score: 7/10
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