Take Me Home Tonight [MA]

College grad, Matt works in a video store and still lives with his parents. For Matt, the future is way too scary to even try to navigate, but that all changes when he learns that his high school crush is back in town. While his twin sister and best mate struggle with their own burgeoning adult lives, Matt has the time of his life as he attends a Labour Day party, gets an audience with the girl of his dreams, monumentally screws everything up, and then boldly puts everything to rights … all in one night. 

This movie wasn’t bad. It wasn’t the most amazingly defiant and romantic comedy to ever grace our screens, but it wasn’t bad. 

College grad, Matt works in a video store and still lives with his parents. For Matt, the future is way too scary to even try to navigate, but all that changes when he learns that his high school crush, Tori, is back in town. Whilst his twin sister and his best mate struggle with their own burgeoning adult lives, Matt has the time of his life, as it should have been in high school, as he attends a Labour Day party, gets a date with the girl of his dreams, monumentally screws everything up, and boldly and stupidly put it all to rights… all in the space of one night. 

Maybe I was too tired and grumpy from work, maybe I wasn’t really in any particular mood for a new film. For whatever reason, I wasn’t all that jazzed about this movie. 

For a start, I could not figure out when this movie was set. I think it may have been the 80s, at least that’s what the “teen” side of the movie leant towards and the fact that the hero works in a video as in “video” store, but then the more “adult” side of the film smacked of something a little more modern. So the basic setting of the movie was a haze right from the start. 

I rather like the idea of all these life-changing things and self-discoveries happening in the course of one night. I think that’s a clever plot device. Having said that though, I think the writers could have pushed the basic story a little more towards its potential. The story had legs, but it didn’t walk as far as it could have, I felt. 

Starring Topher Grace, Anna Faris, Teresa Palmer, Chris Pratt, and Dan Fogler, Take Me Home Tonight was really an alright film filled with drugs, sex, 80s fashions and music, self-discovery, and romance. It wasn’t bad but, to be honest, if you go your entire life without seeing it, you’ll still be complete.