Looking Forward To: DATE NIGHT

Yeah, I admit it. As a married man and father of two kidletts, movies like Date Night are aimed to appeal to the ‘I could care less’ movie goer in me, and this one seems to be right on the money. Sometimes you don’t need art in your movies– you just want appealing and guaranteed entertainment no matter how obvious and rehashed it might be.

Let’s do the list:

• Steve Carell? Check!
• Tina Fey? DOUBLE-Check! (funny and sexy. Yes, sexy).
• Mark Whalberg? Meh. But ‘check’, I guess.
• A host of cameos, including (but not limited to)
  • Mark Wahlberg (meh)
  • Ray Liotta (yeh!)
  • Mila Kunis (yow!!)
• Trailer me smile? Check!
• Trailer made me laugh out loud? Check!

Sometimes I prefer to just switch off and kick back to a straight forward film, and comedies like this one can be perfect for that. I look forward to seeing Date Night with my wife one evening. Once the kids are in bed. And the dishes are done. And the tidying is finished. See the parallels?

… Plus I trust anything Tina Fey is involved with.

The Fosters are a typical suburban couple whose lives – including their weekly date nights of dinner and a movie – have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro where a case of mistaken identity turns their evening into the ultimate date night-gone-awry. But as Claire and Phil take their unexpected walk on the wild side, they begin to remember what made them so special together.