Back in 2006, Topher Grace wrapped production on That ’70s Show and transitioned seamlessly into the ’80s. That is, the Connecticut-raised actor starred in (and executive produced) an ’80s romantic comedy opposite Teresa Palmer , Anna Faris and Dan Fogler called Take Me Home Tonight . And this weekend, after a few years and a few distribution switch-ups, the film is finally being released .
It’s bad enough that Michael Dowse’s retro-comedy 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. Topher Grace plays Matt, a recent MIT grad circa 1988, whose life is stuck on “pause”: He’s working a dead-end job at Suncoast Video, and he still has the hots for Tori (Teresa Palmer), the golden goddess who wouldn’t look twice at him in high school and who barely looks once now. She comes into the store one day; he not-so-subtly puts the moves on her, telling her he works for Goldman Sachs (in the old days, this was supposed to drive girls wild). They agree to meet later at a huge Labor Day bash, where Matt will be able to perpetuate his silly lie and, with luck, win the girl.
If you ever fantasized about stealing a car without consequences, having a threesome with a supermodel, or competing in a coked-up dance-off in an 80s movie , talk to Dan Fogler. The Brooklyn-born Tony winner gets to do all of those things and land the best lines in next week’s 80’s movie extravaganza Take Me Home Tonight starring Topher Grace and Anna Faris.
Posted onNovember 24, 2010by|Comments Off on Mars Needs Moms Trailer: An Argument Against Motion-Capture Animation
The trailer for the latest (and possibly final ) Robert Zemeckis-produced motion-capture opus Mars Needs Moms has arrived and, to it’s credit, the CGI humans here do not look quite as much like horrifying corpses as they did in The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol . The premise is cute, as far as this sort of thing goes, and some of the space landscapes are rendered beautifully…and yet, more than any other trailer recently, Mars Needs Moms makes me yearn for old-school animation.
