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Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) has a tough time finding his niche in life during “Take Me Home Tonight.” |
What a waste.
“Take Me Home Tonight” could have be a crass comedy that still gave strength and reassurance to anxious college graduates spit out into a world where immaturity, fear of the future and incapacitating self-doubts are shown to be temporary, solvable problems.
Instead, “Take Me Home Tonight” uses these graduates as plot fodder in a shameless, frat-boy gross-out comedy that suggests success isn’t confronting fear of failure, but fear of rolling down a hill inside a giant metal ball as if the characters are trapped in the latest “Jackass” reality movie.
Topher Grace stars as Matt Franklin, a newly minted MIT graduate with a fuzzy future.
In 1988, he can’t find work with the kind of Fortune 500 companies his parents had hoped for. So, he spends his time shuffling VHS video cassettes at the local Suncoast Video store.
He and his twin sister Wendy (Anna Faris) join his best buddy Barry (Dan Fogler) for a zany night out, a night that will take the trio through tests and trials and turn them into wiser, better people.
But they don’t become all that much wiser or better, just stupider, and corrupt.
Matt is staging a protest against maturity (a symptom of immaturity?). (Read more…)