Take Me Home Tonight
Relativity Media | Release Date: March 4, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
15
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMar 2, 2011
It does possess a certain backward-glancing innocent appeal. Read full review
70
The New YorkerDavid DenbyMar 12, 2011
The movie is amiable enough: the young Australian actress Teresa Palmer is lovely and crisp, and the Canadian writer-director Michael Dowse manages the party traffic well. [14 March 2011, p.79]
70
TimeMary PolsMar 3, 2011
Hardly unforgettable, but it is an amiable diversion, kept afloat by some comic moments of the raunchy, silly variety, and by something that does feel rather retro: a kindness to its youthful characters. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMar 4, 2011
Hits most of the markers of a flashback film but not enough of the beats. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 3, 2011
Completely unoriginal, sure, but watchable and even likable. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 2, 2011
It's funny enough, and Grace is an engaging actor, always making a good impression but never quite getting over the hump to become the star it seems like he ought to be. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowryMar 2, 2011
A pleasant-enough all-in-one-night comedy, featuring a protagonist facing the classic "Graduate"-like existential dilemma of post-college paralysis. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid FearMar 2, 2011
The movie misses the Hughes sensitive-raunch sweet spot, though a game supporting cast hits bull's-eyes on lesser targets. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMar 4, 2011
What keeps the movie, directed by Michael Dowse, on a more or less even keel is its steady pacing and emotional kinship to John Hughes comedies like "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club." Read full review
50
SalonMary Elizabeth WilliamsMar 4, 2011
I don't begrudge Take Me Home Tonight or the whole "I Love the Eighties" juggernaut its fight for its right to party, but there is something touchingly off-base about it. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMar 4, 2011
Ultimately, the characters are props in a movie about popped collars and Ray-Bans, rather than the other way around. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigMar 3, 2011
As a raunchy romantic comedy or an homage to the 1980s, Take Me Home Tonight is hardly worth a one-night stand. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliMar 3, 2011
Every last joke in the movie - verbal gags, visual gags, musical cues, camera moves - is crushingly literal. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 3, 2011
One raucous night, one raunchy party, "American Graffiti filtered through "Dazed and Confused" and the Shermer High films of John Hughes. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinMar 3, 2011
Grace and his collaborators set out to make a typical '80s sex comedy and succeeded all too well; most of the movies they're paying homage to weren't very good, either. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyMar 3, 2011
Overall Take Me Home Tonight represents a lateral move at best for its 24-hour party people, a step back at worst, and not worth your time either way. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerMar 3, 2011
It's only sporadically amusing and it's certainly not original. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesMar 3, 2011
As on their TV collaboration, "That '70s Show," the time period never extends much farther than hairdos, costume design, and soundtrack hits. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttMar 2, 2011
Michael Dowse's aggressively unfunny film which seeks the lowest common denominator in nearly every scene. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick PinkertonMar 1, 2011
It's not a total wash. Faris's ample talents are squandered with a should-I-stay-or-should-I-go romantic dilemma, but there's just enough of Demetri Martin doing a prick act, and Fogler excels as a Rabelaisian dynamo. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMar 4, 2011
Take Me Home Tonight must have been made with people who had a great deal of nostalgia for the 1980s, a relatively unsung decade. More power to them. The movie unfortunately gives them no dialogue expanding them into recognizable human beings. Read full review
38
Washington PostStephanie MerryMar 3, 2011
If director Michael Dowse took Matt and Tori out of the equation - which is to say, if he took out the main storyline - the whole event could have been a lot more fun. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMar 3, 2011
Nostalgia for the '80s - big hair, Madonna, cocaine, big hair, Duran Duran, more cocaine - is all well and good. Unless it's practiced with the charmless ineptitude of Take Me Home Tonight. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 3, 2011
Take Me Home Tonight, believe me, you've already seen. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreMar 2, 2011
A ten-years-too-late comedy. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 10, 2011
The kindest thing that might be said of this Eighties nostalgia trip is that its formulaic plot and overall mirthlessness are meant as mimetic tributes to that blasted decade. Read full review
25
New York PostLou LumenickMar 4, 2011
A tediously unfunny comedy. Read full review
15
MovielineStephanie ZacharekMar 3, 2011
Take Me Home Tonight isn't nearly as much fun as the '80s actually were. Even worse, it's less fun than most '80s comedies were - and that's bad. Read full review
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