When I saw that Tina Fey and Steve Carell were going to be in a movie together, I had high hopes that hilarity would ensue with these two on screen together.

Which is why when I went into seeing Date Night with these two, I expected to laugh my ass off and laugh until I cried. This movie didn’t disappoint on both counts.

Carell and Fey play Phil and Clair Foster, a married couple from New Jersey with two kids that realize that their marriage has come into a rut following the separation of two family friends (Mark Ruffalo and Kristen Wiig).

To make their usual date night more special, Phil decides to take Claire to Manhattan and to a very popular new restaurant. Unable to get a table, they take the reservations of a no-show couple and that’s where their night goes terribly wrong and the comedy begins.

Mistaken for a couple (James Franco and Mila Kunis) that is blackmailing a prominent person (I don’t want to spoil anything for people that haven’t seen this movie) with information on a flash drive by a couple of corrupt cops (Common and Jimmi Simpson) they are chased on foot and by car and shoot at throughout the night in Manhattan.

Claire turns to a former real estate client, Holbrooke Grant (Mark Wahlberg who is perputally shirtless), for help.

Fey and Carell have great comedic chemistry together and the script written by Josh Klausner is peppered with great one-liners but made funnier with the line delivery of Fey and Carrell.

A lot of the situations that the Fosters go through are ridiculous but are hilarious because of Fey and Carell. These two are comic geniuses. I could go on and on about all the funny things in this movie but I don’t want to spoil all the jokes.

I can’t say enough of these two. They really were great on screen together that it makes you wish for an Office and 30 Rock cross-over so you could have Michael Scott and Liz Lemon go out with each other.

Make sure you stay for the end credits. There are some very funny bloopers that can’t be missed.

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