1. One imagines that only a snort-along screening could possibly lend to the film the energy that it so desperately needs. (With that said, no, we do not endorse the use of cocaine.)
2. A romantic comedy set in California in 1988 that loses its focus.
3. It seems content to poke fun at the clothes and to package some of the more listenable (if inconsequential) music of the era around a joke-challenged romantic story.
4. The screenplay hangs a lampshade on the trope of people who are stuck in time.
5. After the gimmick begins to fade, what remains is less than likable characters inhabiting an all-too-familiar plot.
6. A dirge of a comedy...
7. 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.
8. It tries hard, but it always falls short.
9. Its abuse of nostalgia is more frustrating than entertaining and the same can be said for Dan Fogler.
10. It pretends to be hungry like the wolf, yet it ends up doing the safety dance.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
It has a charming sweetness about it, but Take Me Home Tonight is neither funny nor original enough to live up to the comedies it evokes.