Blind date with a chancer/We had oysters and dry lancers/And the cheque when it arrived we went Dutch, Dutch, Dutch (Date Night, pre-review)

I'm less enthusiastic than I should be about a movie about a date between Michael Scott and Liz Lemon.

First of all, if you're going to produce what is pretty transparently a 90 minute The Office/30 Rock crossover episode, Michael and Liz are not the characters who should be going out on a date. Why not Kelly Kapoor and Alec Baldwin? So many polka dots! So much slicked back hair! Why not a buddy movie, starring Ryan the Temp version 3.1 and Jack's sycophantic executive assistant? Better still, bring back Jan's old assistant Hunter, team him up with Jack's assistant, and let them fight crime together. Seriously, hasn't anyone been reading my fan fic?

When it comes down to brass tacks, I'm just afraid the movie is going to be more schticky than witty, trapped in that super-awkward interregnum between slapstick and romantic comedy in which nothing, and I mean nothing, ever seems to thrive.

It goes without saying that I love both Carell and Fey individually. Collectively? In the words of Dwight Schrute, "I think they could both do better."