Date Night is the kind of feature-length film creature which seems to be a habit, but not necessarily an unpleasant one. The motion picture owes all to the brilliance of its stars, who are Steve Carell and Tina Fey. They are an old couple which seeks to put imagination in their every day life. A little unspecified and already forgotten once you leave the cinema room, except that the laughs functions generally well.

Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire (Tina Fey) are married, they have children and they are liked rather well in their large house in the New Jersey. Our lovers feel the routine however to settle in their couple. In order to reinvigorate the flame, they decide to go downtown (in New York city, of course!) and to usurp a reservation allowing them to eat in a crested restaurant. Here is the first error of a long infernal night whereas they are taken in by individuals armed to the teeth who do not want to laugh. Well, there is an error on the identity some share, and even the police force will be able to regulate this annoying problem with difficulty.

Shawn Levy is not a large director. In the past, he offered his batch of useless stories, but also the two volumes of Night at the Museum. It is near these entertainments without side effect that it is necessary to position Night Date. The film does not revolutionize absolutely anything in the field of screen play with its banal soundtrack and its met adventures. It is rather about a waited race with obstacles where the action and the laughter are of setting, with a few moments of less animated breaks making it possible to the heroes to philosophize on their union. It is thus the equivalent of fast-food: quickly consumed and quickly (finally, normally) digested.

That does not prevent that it is possible to tap a certain guilty pleasure of it. Steve Carell and Tina Fey are two of the best American humorists of the last years and they use this vehicle which is far from being with their height to put themselves forward. And that functions. The first is able to leave a corrosive counterpart at the flash speed, charming by its autoderision moments. The second astonishes more in her way of using the irony while playing with her irresistible jokes. A perfect duet being supplemented and who knows how to improvise without putting too much. That gives several insane moments, as when the lovers imagine the conversations of their neighbors at table. Their playing field is not only centered on them, which makes it possible to see several known faces returning the ball with delight to them. So, Mark Walhberg (The Lovely Bones, Max Payne), James Franco (Milk, Pineapple Express, the TV series General Hospital), Mark Ruffalo (Shutter Island, Sympathy for Delicious) and Common (Terminator Salvation, Wanted) can be seen in this motion picture.

It will thus be necessary to take Night Date for what it is: an inoffensive comedy but funny enough, finishing too quickly with the traditional bloopers, which makes it possible to appreciate the humor and the chemistry between Steve Carell and Tina Fey. It is perhaps little, but that can brighten in these days of abundant rain in the cinema industry.

As they are estimates, there is what to raise the question. Does Date Night truly occupy the first place of the North American box office? With a variation of less than 200.000 $US of receipts between Date Night and Clash of the Titans, we can be certain of nothing.

It will be necessary to await the recorded numbers for the day of Sunday before being able to be sure that the two films are in the good place. It would seem that a difference of almost 1 million $US can be drawn between the estimates made by the production companies and the receipts really made at the end of the weekend.

For the moment, 20th Century Fox announced that its film Date Night had gained 27,1 $US million whereas Warner Bros. post profits of 26,9 $US million for Clash of the Titans.

The action comedy by Shawn Levy, Night Date, has just made its arrival in the North American rooms. The film in which play Tina Fey and the star of the TV series The Office, Steve Carell, tells the story of a couple in the search of a little prickly in their life. A small lie in a restaurant of New York will lead them to live all kinds of adventures through the city.

Even if the race does not seem not finished between the two chief candidates for this week, with the final classification, Clash of the Titans will finishe behind Date Night according to any logic. Considering the fact that the film by Louis Leterrier starts its second week since its release, it would be logic. This modern story of Greek mythology puts in scene the actor Sam Worthington in the role of Perseus, who will try to save his beloved Andromeda (Alexa Davalos).

Another new release this week is the family drama Letters to God. She’s Out of My League and Shutter Island as for them left top 10.