Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire (Tina Fey) Foster are ‘happily’ married.  They’ve reached the stage of their lives where they have stuck each other into a routine that they won’t admit that they’re tired of.  Once a week they get the babysitter to watch their children and they go out to dinner and a movie and every week it’s the same.  This week however, after finding out their friends are getting a divorce, they decide to change up the routine and drive into the city and go to some fancy new restaurant.  Unfortunately they reach the restaurant way too late to get a table.  Phil, hell bent on making this night special for his wife, decides to steal the Triplehorns’ reservation.  This is where the night goes all wrong because when two goons pick them up believing they are the Triplehorns they begin a night of running for their life and solving the mystery of who the Triplehorns are and what they’ve got that these guys with guns want.

I’m actually very happy that the above synopsis took so long because that’s 200 words down and it makes my writing about how boring this movie was so much easier now.  *AHEM* This movie was bad.  I was kind of looking forward to this one because I find Steve Carell funny from time to time and I am a big fan of Tina Fey from 30 Rock.  However, this idea of making them the married couple that hates each others’ faults so much but at the same time love each other so much just feels so cliché at this point I just wanted to fall asleep while I was watching this one.  I would eventually just take out my cell phone and start to read through old text messages and just listen to the movie and I’d be able to guess when the next gag was going to come perfectly.

If the movie wasn’t bad enough we had to include the horrible acting talents of Ray Liotta as the New York mob guy who owns a club.  Ray Liotta is actually my most hated actor in all of Hollywood.  It’s mainly because he’s so recognizable and since he got such a good chance when he hit gold with Goodfellas and then decided to rehash that character in every role he does in every film he does.  At this point he knows he’s a joke and plays that character with a smile on his face, but I’m not smiling and I just continue to stare at disbelief that people out there are still letting him do it.  I would actually find it funnier if the studios would hire a young comedian to do a Ray Liotta impression in that role.

Throw in a few small roles from people like Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, James Franco, J. B. Smoove and William Fichtner and you’ve got enough moments to fill out the one hour and forty minute runtime that you’ll be wasting on this movie.  There’re maybe a couple of moments where I found myself giggling at the unintentionally funny moments this movie gave me – which I can say definitely were not from Fey or Carrell – but besides that the movie was really just a time suck that I wish I didn’t begin.

IMDB says 6.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 68%

I say 2.0/10