Take Me Home Tonight: Critic Reviews

It does possess a certain backward-glancing innocent appeal.

A reasonably watchable immersion in nostalgia.

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

[A] moderate comedy set in the 1980s.

As a raunchy romantic comedy or an homage to the 1980s, Take Me Home Tonight is hardly worth a one-night stand.

After the gimmick begins to fade, what remains is less than likable characters inhabiting an all-too-familiar plot.

Completely unoriginal, sure, but watchable and even likable.

Where Adventureland announced an allegiance to freak-scene '80s culture and made a vital detail of one character's fluffing the title of a Lou Reed song, there's nothing so specific in Take Me Home Tonight.

It tries hard, but it always falls short.

very last joke in the movie -- verbal gags, visual gags, musical cues, camera moves -- is crushingly literal.

Give the genially bawdy '80s nostalgia trip Take Me Home Tonight credit where it's due: It's got the music part down pat

...the comic tone is both strained and straining...

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

They speak entirely in plot points and punchlines and seem to be motivated only by lust, greed and ego. Well, we all are, but few bring to this motivation so little intelligence and wit.

The mystery of Topher Grace's film career, and why it isn't better, continues with "Take Me Home Tonight."

[The] trite boy-meets-girl arc (he lies about his job) is occasionally offset by some potent comic misadventures.

The art direction and costumes are clearly a conscious choice, but if you're going to look back with affection (and/or irony), it helps to have something to say.

Like a zippy lost treasure from the days of VHS and Duran Duran.

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

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

Take Me Home Tonight is a pleasant-enough all-in-one-night comedy, featuring a protagonist facing the classic Graduate-like existential dilemma of post-college paralysis.

A dirge of a comedy...

It's "Hot Tub Time Machine" without the time machine or the hot tub. Or the fun that entailed.

Topher Grace and Dan Fogler star in Michael Dowse's aggressively unfunny film which seeks the lowest common denominator in nearly every scene.

It, like, totally pains me to say this, but Take Me Home Tonight is a bummer.