I can understand why John Cusack might want to go back to the 1980s, I really can. Say Anything. One Crazy Summer. Stand By Me (who even remembered him in that part but, still, iconic film). But is this Back to the Future-esque flick the answer?
(The folks over at Television Without Pity say no; they’ve got a sometimes funny, sometimes sad breakdown of why 1980s Cusack was the man.)
Oh, where have you gone, Lloyd Dobler.
[...] And by “certain demographic,” clearly they mean me. So, they’ve revisited the most awesome television show about neurotic mini-skirt-wearing blondes. And the movie with stellar use of catchphrases and coloured tights. I have every confidence I soon will be reading an essay on the delightful verbal tics of John Cusack. [...]
[...] I do agree with their assessment that the Hill Valley Telegraph had an unfortunate habit of writing banner headlines, a font size that should be reserved for war or at least major national events, for such dubious “news” as a local man’s lucky streak at the race track (a tendency of which my local paper is frequently guilty). But my concurrence is tempered by my puzzlement at why, why? someone would go through the trouble of taking numerous newspaper-headline screen shots from B-grade ’80s movies. [...]