Take Me Home Tonight (2011)

All Critics (113) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (80) | DVD (9)

It's an amiable but slow slice of nostalgia: think 'Hot Tub Time Machine' meets 'Superbad' - without the big laughs.

May 10, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Anna Smith

Time Out

Top Critic

This low-powered, amiable, stunningly unimportant movie is essentially one long, noisy party (set in two houses).

March 14, 2011 Full Review

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

"Take Me Home Tonight" is not a bad movie. In fact, it's pretty good. It's just unnecessary.

March 9, 2011 Full Review

Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

Top Critic

It's formulaic at best - and even that formula isn't always thought through.

March 4, 2011 Full Review

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

Drinking jokes. Sex jokes. Wild antics. Sincere looks. Nothing goes on here that hasn't gone on -- and gone on better -- in other movies.

March 4, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

A dirge of a comedy...

March 4, 2011 Full Review

Lou Lumenick

New York Post

Top Critic

Ten years too late -- for the movie, the actors playing the roles in the movie. It's "Hot Tub Time Machine" without the time machine or the hot tub. Or the fun.

January 17, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Take Me Home Tonight is a much deeper, dramatic movie than most give it credit for. And it's also a hoot, too - largely thanks to Dan Fogler and the amusing cameo appearances.

January 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

Pap in service of wistfulness about a time period now thoroughly mocked to death.

September 12, 2011 Full Review

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

This 80s-nostalgic comedy relies too much on its big hair and bright clothes and not enough on getting inside the head of its characters.

September 9, 2011 Full Review

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

As enjoyable as the soundtrack and general nostalgia of this film is, it just doesn't rise above wannabe status.

August 23, 2011 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

Unfortunately, the cast can't fight the film's lack of focus and display of sloppy editing. Tonight should be a well-balanced look at a group finally confronted with real life, yet only small fragments of alarm remain.

July 26, 2011 Full Review

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

...a better-than-expected bit of '80s nostalgia...

July 26, 2011 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

A tonally uneasy mish-mash of stale slapstick and naïve representations of drug use.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Ben Rawson-Jones

Digital Spy

Eddie Money deserves better than this.

June 3, 2011 Full Review

Grae Drake

Movies.com

[Director] Dowse's film is so formula that it is aimlessly predictable...

June 2, 2011 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Grace is particularly wet, lacking the charisma or the charm to pull off the shy nerd-at-heart routine needed to convince you he could actually win the girl of his dreams.

May 16, 2011 Full Review

Alistair Harkness

Scotsman

Not a journey to the end of the night that I'd recommend.

May 15, 2011 Full Review

Philip French

Guardian [UK]

This 1980s-set comedy was shot in 2007 and has been sitting on the shelf ever since. The damn thing's so old it's almost retro twice over.

May 14, 2011 Full Review

Robbie Collin

News of the World

So bad, it's almost good... if certainly not great.

May 13, 2011 Full Review

Graham Young

Birmingham Mail

• 1. Bill Franklin: Matt, take a shot at something. Don't think about it too much. Just take the shot.
  2. Matt Franklin: I don't even know where to aim.
  3. Bill Franklin: Anywhere! Everywhere! Just take wild shots! Hell, at something just to hear the gun go off.
  – Submitted by Eushilia C (12 months ago)
• 1. Ashley: Your dance was cool. It was like anti-dancing.
  – Submitted by Eushilia C (12 months ago)
• 1. Matt Franklin: That looks suicidal. [after looking at the ball]
  – Submitted by Daniel R (17 months ago)
• 1. Party Guy: Nice shades, asshole!
  – Submitted by Desmond E (23 months ago)
• 1. Matt Franklin: I guess my plan is to keep working at Sun Coast Video, until I figure out what I want to do with my life.
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)
• 1. Barry Nathan: It could be worse.
  2. Matt Franklin: It couldn't be any worse.
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

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