Date night is a comedy based on a relationship between Phil (Carell) and Claire Foster (Fey.) Phil and Claire Foster live the average suburban life. They have two kids, and even though they have a pretty average, yet busy life, they still manage to go on a date once per week.
I will go out there and say that this movie is certainly laugh out loud funny. It is something that every married couple can relate to, letting your marriage get to the point where you feel as if it’s just repetitive and a bit mundane. You end up doing the things you know you are suppose to do, yet you want something a bit more.
At first when I started watching this movie I was VERY happy, it was funny, I could relate to some of the struggles Claire and Phil had as a married couple. And I was very pleased to see that there relationship was pretty healthy, they just need a bit of a spark to help put life back into their marriage.
Overall this movie made for a wonderful date night movie! In my opinion it was a PERFECT date night movie. I could deal with the slight sexual innuendos, that was fine. I could deal with the guy wearing no shirt, and I could even deal with the “f” bomb being dropped every once in a while.
However I had a HUGE problem with one of the very last scenes that involved some sort of strip club and prostitutes. In Claire and Phil’s endeavor they supposedly “need” to enter into this type of place to save their lives. Immediately when they entered this place my rating of this movie went WAY down. My husband and I still agree that the movie would have been great without this particular scene.
The scene is not too graphic, I have certainly seen worse. However it was a LONG scene, and the events that took place while they were there was borderline for making a PG-13 movie a rated R movie.
I would definitely keep younger kiddos away from this movie. I do not recommend this movie for anyone under the age of 18 years old.
I personally give this movie 2.5 out of 4 stars. Again it was very funny, and I LOVED the ending. The positive ideal of marriage portrayed in this movie was a welcome change to what is typically portrayed in Hollywood!
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