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Topher Grace on Take Me Home Tonight and Almost Dying Inside of a Gigantic Metal Ball

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 .

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Topher Grace on Take Me Home Tonight and Almost Dying Inside of a Gigantic Metal Ball

The New Kung Fu Panda 2 Trailer: Not Enough Jean-Claude Van Damme

It’s a good week to be an animation fan, what with Rango garnering rave reviews and a new trailer for the Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots hitting the web. (Unless, like me, you caught the Puss in Boots teaser in theaters at midnight in front of the aptly-named Beastly . Not a smart life choice, in retrospect.) But what mystical, family-friendly, Eastern-influenced laughs await us in the new trailer for Kung Fu Panda 2 ?

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The New Kung Fu Panda 2 Trailer: Not Enough Jean-Claude Van Damme

Quick, Let’s Name 50 Songs Glee Should Never Cover and Save Their Souls

Let me be clear: Though I’m a Glee hater, I enjoy and endorse some of the show’s interesting song choices. During the Madonna episode, I liked the pep assembly version of “4 Minutes” and the all-male rendition of “What It Feels Like for a Girl” because they were unexpected tunes with unexpected singers. But most of the time Glee resorts to overly familiar hits, cheapens them, and shoehorns them into maddening storylines. That can be a tolerable practice, but let’s set aside 50 examples of untouchable pop majesty for Glee immunity. Add your own, please .

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Quick, Let’s Name 50 Songs Glee Should Never Cover and Save Their Souls

Super Trailer: Instant Classic Gets Wrenching Preview

Ha! [Cue honking gag horn] It’ll all make sense after a look at the trailer for Super , James Gunn’s outrageous (and outrageously violent) comedy featuring Rainn Wilson as a schmo-turned-crime-fighter working to reclaim his estranged wife (Liv Tyler) from an evil drug lord (Kevin Bacon). Along the way he enlists a young sidekick (Ellen Page) whose expertise in comics (and enthusiasm for head-busting) comes in handy on his quest.

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Super Trailer: Instant Classic Gets Wrenching Preview

‘The Tsunami Keeps Cresting’: Charlie Sheen Heads to Haiti, Natch

And that’s when Charlie Sheen officially morphed into a sweaty and twitchy edition of The Onion . Speaking with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, the future radio station said that he plans on heading to Haiti (!) with Sean Penn (!!) to do humanitarian work. “I’m excited as hell because, you know, if I can bring the attention of the world down there, then clearly this tsunami keeps cresting,” said Sheen in the most flagrant example yet of his addiction to mixed metaphors. What else is happening in Sheenworld?

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‘The Tsunami Keeps Cresting’: Charlie Sheen Heads to Haiti, Natch

DVD: Five Non-John Hughes ’80s Teen Comedies That Are Still a Bajillion Times Better Than Take Me Home Tonight

So not only does Take Me Home Tonight get the small details wrong — someone makes a Rain Man reference even though TMHT is set during Labor Day Weekend 1988 and Rain Man wouldn’t be seen for a few more months — it also fails to capture the charm and the laughs that we think of when we recall the great teen flicks of the 1980s. And even taking the great John Hughes out of the equation (and seriously, TMHT , how very DARE you have sent your characters to “Shermer High”? Blasphemy!), there are plenty of actual ’80s movies that will bring you far more joy this weekend on DVD than this crappy new comedy. Ahead, five better options.

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DVD: Five Non-John Hughes ’80s Teen Comedies That Are Still a Bajillion Times Better Than Take Me Home Tonight