Date Night – Gangster für eine Nacht (2010)

Date Night – Gangster für eine Nacht: Directed by Shawn Levy. With Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson. In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple’s attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.

“As it turns out, the makers of the legendary u0026quot;Flesh Gordonu0026quot; were also the makers of the first-ever theatrical hardcore feature. Whatu0026#39;s fascinating is that the genre has really not fundamentally progressed one inch past what they do here. Oh, some of the details may have changed, but we still get about fifteen seconds of plot every ten minutes, interspersed with the predictable carnal content. Which isnu0026#39;t bad, actually, and the plot stuff is better: charmingly forthright and silly. Admittedly the dominant image Iu0026#39;m carrying around afterward is of the unremitting full-screen vaginal closeups – probably because I saw it in a theatre; web porn has nothing on this scale of spectacle, not to mention the social component of watching it with a roomful of skeptical youngish middle-class types. (And letu0026#39;s not forget the peppy harmonica that accompanies these images on the soundtrack!) Itu0026#39;s not particularly cool that the brief incest scene is played for titillation before it rotates into light irony. But for the most part this story of people of various ages and genders seeking out their various sexual relations strikes me as a positive statement, in its severely limited way. It looks like theyu0026#39;re having a lot of fun!”