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A
script written by
Topher Grace turns
into a movie
starring Topher
Grace.
Take
Me Home Tonight
is a typical
post-adolescence ‘I
DON’T KNOW WHAT TO
DO WITH MY LIFE!’
story. It’s an 80’s
movie made in 2011.
The best thing you
can say about
Take
Me Home Tonight
is that it’s pretty
average… basically
it’s pretty similar
to the Eddie Money
song that it gets
its title from.
In
Take
Me Home Tonight
Matt Franklin
(played by Topher)
is an MIT grad who
works at a video
store. He’s hesitant
to start his life
and get a real job
or try and start a
relationship.
Basically he’s in
his mid-20s and he’s
not ready to start
his life. When his
high school crush
Tori Frederking(played
by Teresa Palmer)
comes into the video
store, a wild night
that changes his
life. He goes to a
party with his
fraternal twin
sister Wendy (played
by Anna Faris) and
his best friend
Barry (played by Dan
Fogler.) All kinds
of craziness comes
about from the party
after the friends
steal a car, find
some drugs, and Matt
lies to Tori about
working at
Goldman-Sachs.
Take
Me Home Tonight
does feel like an
80’s movie.
Completely. It was
shot that way, the
set and costume
design is perfect to
go along with it.
Even the hair and
makeup were done
perfectly. It looks
like an 80’s movie
and Michael Dowse
directed it to
reflect that
perfectly. It was
also well acted,
Topher Grace is one
of the most likable
actors going and
it’s great to see
him getting some
work with a movie he
wrote no less.
Teresa Palmer is
great in everything
she does even though
she’s done a lot of
mediocre movies over
the past two years
and Dan Fogler is
underrated as a
goofy sidekick to
Topher in this
movie. Anna Farris
is just okay here as
Wendy, but she does
have a couple of
great moments.
Take
Me Home Tonight
is just a normal
movie for how it was
written. It feels
like an 80’s movie
because all of these
items have been
recycled. A young
guy doesn’t know
what he’s going to
do with his life
until he has a
magical night that
changes everything.
Cocaine was a crazy
drug in the 80’s.
Guy gets the
unobtainable girl of
his dreams; you can
just go down the
list of things that
have been done
before that were
done in
Take
Me Home Tonight.
The only cliché that
they didn’t do was
the best friend
that’s a girl hooks
up with the star in
the end- they went a
different route
there thankfully.
Extras on this Blu-ray
are actually decent
save for the cast
discussion that runs
for twenty minutes
and is awful.
There’s an Atomic
Tom music video
starring the actors
from the film and a
jukebox that plays
songs from the
soundtrack including
the Atomic Tom song
(that was actually
SUPPOSED to be a
Neon Trees track.
Take
Me Home Tonight
is decent, if you
went to high school
in the 80’s or if
you like Topher
Grace then you’ll
like this movie, but
you won’t be crazy
about it because of
the writing
problems. Maybe if
you make an 80’s
movie you should
name it after a U2
song and not an
Eddie Money song.
Naming something
after an Eddie Money
song is just a
recipe for disaster.
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