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Nostalgia-inducing, party-heavy coming-of-agers (see Easy A, Adventureland, Superbad and a slew of others) provide an easy vehicle for filmmakers in their prime to recall — or perhaps reinvent — their youth. In Take Me Home Tonight, the writers of That ’70s Show take their turn, borrowing equally from Dazed and Confused and Say Anything to tell the story of aimless post-college smartypants Matt Franklin (Topher Grace), who’s too chicken to ask out his high school crush. But why the ’80s backdrop? Perhaps it was the only way to maintain meta-cheesiness while remaining somewhat self-aware. Still, for as dumb as this movie is, it demonstrated wonderfully the comedic range of Dan Fogler (Balls of Fury), who hovers kinetically between John Belushi and Jack Black. In his take on the fat, goofy best friend, Fogler’s funny enough to distract from an otherwise mediocre coming-of-age catharsis story.

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Official Site: www.iamrogue.com/takemehometonight

Rating:	R
Director:	Michael Dowse
Cast:	Topher Grace, Anna Faris, Dan Fogler, Teresa Palmer, Chris Pratt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Lucy Punch, Michael Ian Black, Demetri Martin
Release Date:	March 4, 2011 (Nationwide)
Running Time:	114
Distributor:	Relativity Media
Producer:	Ryan Kavanaugh, Jim Whitaker, Sarah Bowen
Genre:	Comedy, Drama
Advisory:	for language, sexual content and drug use