Date Night, Iron Man 2 and The Last Song

At last, a comedy thriller for adults. Date Night is fairly flimsy and lightweight, but enjoyable nonetheless. Steve Carell and Tina Fey work well together as the married couple on a night out. The writing is OK and the action just zips along. And with a nice cameo from Mark Wahlberg. Slightly reminiscent of Scorsese's After Hours with a comedy twist.


If only they had gone easy on the formulaic CGI action, Iron Man 2 could have been so much better. Robert Downey Junior reprises his starring role from the first movie, and is by far the best thing about this sequel. He can make an ordinary screenplay seem something brilliant. Gwyneth Paltrow tries hard, but Mickey Rooney is the same old caricature we have seen before. I never used to think that Scarlett Johansson was that attractive, but this movie changed my mind.

The best thing that I can say about The Last Song is that it looked good on the screen. The shots of the Georgian coast were beautiful. So why did I go to see it? Well it did have mixed reviews, but it did have a kind of story to a family drama, so that seemed more attractive than a lot of other films out at the moment. Unfortunately, the love story between Miley Cyrus and Bobby Coleman was pretty dire, as was their acting. Greg Kinnear is always worth watching, but even he stumbles around in the mess. Even the "cool" soundtrack was not up to much. Pretty poor stuff.