Ah those forgettable American 'stoner' comedies.
At least many multiplexes caught on to the idea that Take Me Home Tonight was a turkey of significant enough proportions to ditch it at the last minute.
Thus, Cineworld in Nottingham has been showing the trailer for weeks, has a poster in its corridors but has not included it on schedules.
While, having now seen the film I can understand the logic of dropping it, it was a little bit annoying that I had to go elsewhere to tick it off after they had advertised it so much.
Mind you, Cineworld does have form for this. There was still an Adele Blanc-Sec poster in one of the corridors last week - it was never shown in Nottingham.
So, as I was over in the Black Country to see friends, I mad my first visit to Wolverhampton's Cineworld.
In years gone by, the concept of me watching a naff comedy at the same time as the FA Cup Final would have been inconceivable.
So what's the premise of Take Me Home Tonight?
It's based in mid-1980's where Topher Grace is a super-bright graduate who can't decide what to do with his life so works at a video store.
He had a massive schoolboy crush on pretty blonde Teresa Palmer, done up in obligatory 80s big hair and spangly dress.
He agrees to make one last attempt to hook up with her by going to a school reunion party.
Also there are his twin sister (Anna Faris) and his wacky best friend (Dan Fogler).
And, oh what fun they had, with stolen cars, drugs and a bit of how's yer father.
I've never seen Grace do comedy before - I associate him much more with the likes of Predators and Spiderman 3.
He should stick with the action men. Here he was horribly wooden. Ok he is meant to be a clumsy geek but he is presumably meant to be endearing and funny. He achieves neither.
Faris is plain odd. I guess making her brainy and dowdy is an attempt to drag her away from her traditional House Bunny image. It just doesn't work. All she does is spend the movie with her strangely-shaped mouth gaped open at the 'antics' of her co-stars.
To say Fogler is the best thing about this movie is another Vince Vaughn in The Dilemma moment.
Fogler does the wide-eyed off-his-head routine in virtually every movie he's in. So it comes as no surprise here but at least it did prompt three giggles on the laughometer.
So where will Take Me Home Tonight get its marks?
Easy, with the fantastic 1980s soundtrack. If I had closed me eyes, blocked out the dialogue and just sat back, listening to the music I would have been happy.
As soon as I heard Kim Carnes sing Bette Davis Eyes I was in heaven. For it to be followed by the likes of Dexy's Midnight Runners and The Who was bliss.
In fact, the movie did score by evoking great memories.
There was the big hair, headbands and serious disco dancing. And there was Grace wearing a jacket with the sleeves rolled up.
At least his sleeves stayed rolled up, I never seem to manage keeping them there past 20 minutes.
So, the 1980s stuff saved it from an appearance in my bottom ten and nudged it to 4.5/10.
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