Reviews of Take Me Home Tonight 2011
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I've said it before, I'm a sucker for 80's music and 90's theme films. I loved this movie, i know that a lot of peeople will say it's bad but i have to disagree. The soundtrack is awesome, it's funny and the acting is pretty good. If you are a child of the 80's like myself then check this out.
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This is a vastly underrated comedy. Topher Grace should be in more movies. He is a very good young actor. There are plenty of genuinely funny parts to be had in this film. Where Take Me Home Tonight fails to deliver is in it's overall plot. Taking place in one twenty four hour span, we don't know the characters enough to even care what happens to them.
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TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT sat on the shelf for a few years before finally getting released. This, despite starring Topher Grace and Anna Farris and coming from the creative team behind That 70’s Show.
I understand why after seeing it. It’s not particularly bad; it’s just not special in any kind of way. It’s a perfectly serviceable direct-to-dvd 80’s tribute. But instead it was held off and quietly thrown into theaters where it just died.
I’m not crying over its…
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This movie is just an awful mess. It’s a comedy with no laughs, Topher Grace is annoying, Anna Faris is given nothing to do, and Dan Fogler makes Jonah Hill look like he deserves that oscar nomination (yeah, that’s bad). There’s also an incredibly shallow plot and you can tell this movie just wants to be American Graffiti so BAD… but it’s not, by any means. Avoid this at all costs.
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Watched because this came from the director of Goon, It's All Gone Pete Tong, and the Fubar films. I can only guess this was a 'director for hire' gig, because this just plain stinks.
All the details are right, this thing is swimming in 80s nostalgia for no justifiable reason, and half of the movie is more or less an 80s dance party. Outside of that is an all-too-familiar "What am I going to do with my life" story with…
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I hate the 80s AND Topher Grace, and yet this movie is a pretty sweet rom-com that I enjoyed a bunch. Whodathunkit.
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This movie has some issues in that it is incredibly predictable, but that does not tarnish this surprisingly heartwarming tale of a post High School / M.I.T. loser who gets a one night chance to win his High School crush. Topher Grace is actually very likable in this film. I must say that my love for Anna Faris pulled me to see this, but sadly her character is very supporting. This flick is packed with 80s music which really gives…
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Whilst Take Me Home Tonight gets the ‘80s period details right it seems so interested in making sure the costumes, music and other cultural references are spot on that it forgets the important element: the story. It’s not offensively bad by any means but it leaves no lasting impression; the film is populated by stock characters (annoying best friend, girl out of his league etc.) and the same old situations that fill these types of movies. It makes a change…
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Good job re-creating the 80s. Liked the soundtrack. Teresa Palmer is gorgeous. Ultimately, the movie is a little too long and little too serious for what it was trying to do - replicate a teen movie from the 80s.
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Like last year's Easy A, Take Me Home Tonight feels like a bit of a throwback to the films of John Hughes. A bit raunchier, Take Me Home Tonight probably lives somewhere between John Hughes and Superbad.
Topher Grace is an actor who deserves more credit. Once again here he proves his talent with his great comedic timing and deadpan delivery. Grace also came up with the story, which explains the odd obsession with Suncoast (he once worked there in…
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How do you name a movie after a classic 80's Eddie Money track, that's one of my favorite 80's guilty pleasures and you don't even play it ONCE the entire frickin' movie?!
Also, great cast of characters, so its a shame the two male leads are Topher Grace and Dan Fogler, two of the most annoying, try-so-hard to be funny actors on Earth.