Clark Kent says: Two of my favorite funny people have teamed up for ‘Date Night’. While personally I didn’t have a date to accompany me for this flick — the more important question is — was it funny? Let’s discuss after the jump.

GOOD: The King and Queen of Sitcom TV are undisputed champions — Steve Carell and Tina Fey. Their work on ‘The Office’ and ’30 Rock’ have garnered them a ton of awards and in ‘Date Night’ their pairing is a Hollywood wet dream come true. The duo take their comedic traits and apply them to screenwriter Josh Klausner’s script and pepper the storyline with quips and antics that get laughs almost on cue. Fey and Carell can effortlessly convey the ups and downs of their marriage as Phil and Claire Foster. Director Shawn Levy (‘Night at the Museum‘) heaps on the action sequences and let’s oddball-ness run amuck as an always-shirtless Mark Wahlberg plays a security expert and James Franco and Mila Kunis (my crush) play a skeevy criminal couple. J.B. Smoove helps to add onto the hysterics as a cabbie in one scene that definitely needed his touch.

BAD: Unfortunately ‘Date Night’ comes off as unpretentious and unambitious as Shawn Levy never really asks Steve and Tina to venture outside of their comfort zones. Specifically there’s a pole-dancing scene that the duo appears in and on-screen the Fosters appear to be the same uptight nerds that they started out as in the beginning of the flick. These two sharp talents should have inspired the screenwriters to do more than car chases and a generic mobster plot-line. Levy leads the movie into a dead halt whenever the attention moves from the Steve Carell and Tina Fey to the film’s more distracting scenes.

UGLY: ‘Date Night’ is ultimately a testament to under-utilizing talent. The cast is undoubtedly a strong one with the run-time pretty feasible. While Mark Wahlberg can do no wrong, Steve Carell and Tina Fey aren’t really allowed to break out in their roles. ‘Date Night’ clicks whenever they are allowed to fully engage one another. It’s probably no surprise that both are able to relate to each other so well. Carell has been married in real life since 1995 to actor Nancy Walls Carell and Fey has been a loving wife to composer/producer Jeff Richmond since 2001. They bring to life in the film those experiences that infuses the easy camaraderie that flows effortlessly on-screen. Shawn Levy’s track record is known in Hollywood as one who tarnishes the reputations of America’s comedy elite (see: ‘The Pink Panther‘ and ‘Night at the Museum’) — but he cannot stop the funniness of Carell and Fey.

Clark Kent says: In short… See It! If only to take a loved one out to get a good laugh. Tina Fey and Steve Carell should make another movie together and hopefully Hollywood will let them take it to the next level. Got any thoughts? Share ‘em below. Until then… check out the trailer!

Mila Kunis, last seen in ‘Book Of Eli‘ and ‘Date Night,’ has signed to star in relationship comedy Friends With Benefits.

Clark Kent says: Mila is definitely one of my crushes. If she is reading this right now — I want to ask her a question. Check it out after the jump.

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Will Gluck is directing the film, which is just one of several projects floating around Hollywood (Ivan Reitman is making one of the others) with the title, which will find a female head-hunter (Kunis) sick of commitment-phobic blokes and a male mag editor (Justin Timberlake) tired of women who try to get him into a relationship having what they think is a casual fling.

But then they fall in love. And the trouble really starts. Keith Merryman and David Newman wrote the script, and the movie should start filming in July. Whether it keeps the title might depend on when it arrives in cinemas: we’re guessing the first to the post with the name will claim the right to use it. And make the others wash its car for a month. Metaphor: stretched to breaking point.

Clark Kent says: Fall in love? Psshhh… I have to ask Mila this question: Will you go out to see your movie with me? Reply in the comments section.

With Warner Bros. Pictures moving Clash of the Titans back a week to April 2nd so that the film can be released in 3D, the studio has now decided to move Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers away from its previous April 9th date as well. The film will now be released on June 4th.

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The move is interesting for several reasons. It now leaves Fox’s comedy Date Night as the only wide release on April 9. Also, moving The Losers to June 4th puts the movie in theaters just one week before Fox’s The A-Team, the movie to which The Losers has been compared to the most.

The other wide releases scheduled for June 4 right now are Get Him to the Greek, Killers and Marmaduke.

Right now in the world of TV comedy, Tina Fey and Steve Carell are the ‘Prom Queen and King’, and with all that popularity comes the price of raised expectations. The couples comedy Date Night, starring Fey and Carell as a married couple looking to spice up their romance, was bound to be scrutinized.

Clark Kent says: Would you take a date to see this movie? Check out the trailer after the jump!

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So now that the first trailer has arrived (via Apple), reactions have been mixed. But there’s hope for this film, if for no other reason than the fact that Fey and Carell are some of the most talented comedians working right now (although I’m still holding out for Fey to start writing some more movies of her own).

Date Night was directed by Shawn Levy (of Night at The Museum fame) and written by Josh Klausner, who only has a couple of credits as a writer (mainly for Shrek films). But Klausner has also worked with the Farrelly brothers, so he must know his way around a joke, right? There’s a strong supporting cast of funny folks like James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jason Segel, and Kristen Wiig.

Clark Kent says: Neither Carrell or Fey have lost their comedy magic, but while this film stands unrated, it could end up being a 40-Year-Old Virgin sleeper hit, right? You be the judge. Peep the trailer below!