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This low-powered, amiable, stunningly unimportant movie is essentially one long, noisy party (set in two houses).
"Take Me Home Tonight" is not a bad movie. In fact, it's pretty good. It's just unnecessary.
It's formulaic at best - and even that formula isn't always thought through.
Drinking jokes. Sex jokes. Wild antics. Sincere looks. Nothing goes on here that hasn't gone on -- and gone on better -- in other movies.
After the gimmick begins to fade, what remains is less than likable characters inhabiting an all-too-familiar plot.
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.
Pap in service of wistfulness about a time period now thoroughly mocked to death.
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.
As enjoyable as the soundtrack and general nostalgia of this film is, it just doesn't rise above wannabe status.
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.
...a better-than-expected bit of '80s nostalgia...
A tonally uneasy mish-mash of stale slapstick and naïve representations of drug use.
Eddie Money deserves better than this.
[Director] Dowse's film is so formula that it is aimlessly predictable...
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.
Not a journey to the end of the night that I'd recommend.
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.
So bad, it's almost good... if certainly not great.
80s nostalgia as a thing is so ten years ago... just about the time that the 33-year-old Topher Grace would have been the right age to play [this] just-out-of-college, I-dunno-what-to-do-with-myself whiner...
It's a dispiriting mess throughout.
Refreshingly, for a comedy of any decade, the characters are all likable, particularly Grace who gives his best performance since 2004's overlooked rom-com In Good Company.
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