Take Me Home Tonight (2011)
Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, walks in and invites him to an end-of-summer party. With the help of his twin sister and his best friend, Matt hatches a plan to change the course of his life.
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hyped garbage
A Masterpiece!
The acting in this movie is really good.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
'If you want to see n 80's movie through the eyes of a 2000 something this movie is for you! For the rest of us that lived through the 80's you should watch something with a mullet, dogtags, and playing vball while looking for treasures with an asian friend looking for treasure. Way more heart in that storyline than this big pile of a movie.
The main plot line of "Take Me Home Tonight" is one that should be compelling: college-grad loser decides to finally come out of his shell and enter the "real world". However, there are so many poor elements embedded in this movie that it completely overshadows what could have been a decent story.For a basic plot summary, this film sees Matt Franklin (Topher Grace), a mathematical genius, wasting away his post-college life working at an outlet video rental store and never venturing much further out than that. When his old high school crush Tori Frederking (Teresa Palmer) shows up, however, Matt decides to throw caution to the wind for one night to impress her.There are two main problems with this movie: First, it is billed as a nostalgic comedy, but lives up to neither term. It was beaten to the "80s memories" punch by "Hot Tub Time Machine", and is utterly lacking in humor (I laughed twice the entire showing). So, the entire premise for the film fails miserably.Can the acting save the day? Nope. Grace & Palmer are serviceable as the leads, but their characters are so ridiculous that it doesn't give them much room to act. Then, Anna Ferris is given the most shallow role of the whole film. It was almost as if the writers were shocked to have her name in the film, but then didn't know what to do with her. Whenever (at the brief moments) that this film actually makes you care, Ferris' plot line drags it right back down again.Thus, I cannot recommend "Take Me Home Tonight" to any audiences. If you want some good 80s-nostalgia belly laughs, turn to "Hot Tub Time Machine" instead. This one will only let you down.
Very enjoyable movie full of great 80's concepts and growing up in the 80's.The soundtrack is top notch and excellent and so is the casting.Matt is a grad of MIT, but is lost in his career and work's in a Suncost video store...which was a staple of 80's malls.He is lost but one night, his high school crush returns home after college and he goes for it.Can Matt win Tori Federkin...and do women go for smart guys who work at Suncost? This movie is a very nice well written, fun, and inspiring and a great take on the 80's.The music is outstanding as is the acting.10 out of 10.....those of 80's and early 90's boomers will enjoy the ride.
Take me Home Tonight - TRASH IT (D) No story, no screen play and no comedy, Take me Home tonight is indeed one of the worst Coming of Age movie ever. Topher Grace is one of the annoying actors we've who plays the same idiotic geeky guy, who ends up with the most beautiful girl whether it's his "That 70's Show" or any movie he previously appeared in. Anna Farris was completely wasted in unfunny role. Chris Pratt impressed me, he was the only good thing & Teresa Palmer was the only beautiful thing in the movie. Teresa Palmer was amazing in Aussie thriller "Restraint" it's sad that she never got a good role so far in Hollywood. Dan Fogler was annoying as he was supposed to be a fat annoying wannabe prick. On the whole, it's tedious and tried very hard to make it funny, which didn't work at least for me.