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Set in the year 80s and starring a bunch of somebodies acting like they should be nobodies,
Take Me Home Tonight takes on the "Me Decade" by focusing on the You. The
P.U., that is. Sorry this movie's just so focused on slogans - perhaps an apt angle for a smarter 80s movie to take- that it's hard not to resort to reciprocal glibness in response. A character actually says, "You'll whip it real good," at one point! And I don't know who it would take to deliver that line with anything but a giant
GONG! sound following it but Dan Fogler is not that person.
Watch the music video and save yourselves eighty-six minutes of your life.
As an aside, there are a lot of terrific people milling about here (Anna Faris! Dimitri Martin! Michelle Tratchenberg! Chris Pratt!) but it was the unknown quantity that myself and my viewing partners all came out of the movie thinking the same thing about - "Wow that sucked, but gosh that
Teresa Palmer is charming!" I went and looked her up to see what she's been in, if I'd seen her before, and the poor girl's not had a good run. Her past couple of years are littered with duds -
I Am Number Four and
The Sorcerer's Apprentice and this movie and
Bedtime Stories - it reads like what the available movies to watch on the flight to Hell would be. Teresa Palmer deserves better! Somebody find her something. But here's a nifty factoid - her first role is one of the "Pool Party People" in
Wolf Creek! I knew there was a reason I liked her. The residual glow of that flick's still on her.
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Set in the year 80s and starring a bunch of somebodies acting like they should be nobodies, Take Me Home Tonight takes on the "Me Decade" by focusing on the You. The P.U., that is. Sorry this movie's just so focused on slogans - perhaps an apt angle for a smarter 80s movie to take- that it's hard not to resort to reciprocal glibness in response. A character actually says, "You'll whip it real good," at one point! And I don't know who it would take to deliver that line with anything but a giant GONG! sound following it but Dan Fogler is not that person. Watch the music video and save yourselves eighty-six minutes of your life.
As an aside, there are a lot of terrific people milling about here (Anna Faris! Dimitri Martin! Michelle Tratchenberg! Chris Pratt!) but it was the unknown quantity that myself and my viewing partners all came out of the movie thinking the same thing about - "Wow that sucked, but gosh that Teresa Palmer is charming!" I went and looked her up to see what she's been in, if I'd seen her before, and the poor girl's not had a good run. Her past couple of years are littered with duds - I Am Number Four and The Sorcerer's Apprentice and this movie and Bedtime Stories - it reads like what the available movies to watch on the flight to Hell would be. Teresa Palmer deserves better! Somebody find her something. But here's a nifty factoid - her first role is one of the "Pool Party People" in Wolf Creek! I knew there was a reason I liked her. The residual glow of that flick's still on her.
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