About Last Night

About Last Night

Rating 5 out of 10

This February seems to be the month of remaking classic movies of the 80s.  First was RoboCop and now About Last Night along with Endless Love which I will probably skip.  I am a big fan of the 1986 version of About Last Night with Rob Lowe and Demi Moore.  It is one of my favorite films of that era.  It was a sweet and comical movie that had nice back up's with Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins. It was a movie about relationships.   If you haven't seen this version I highly recommend it.  You can borrow my dvd if you promise to bring it back.

This new version is clearly very different.  Kevin Hart is hot right now and seems to be in every movie released.  He is very funny and when he finally gets that one great movie like Eddie Murphy did in 48 Hrs and Beverly Hills Cop he will zoom to that next level.  I don't believe this is the movie to do that.

Bernie (Hart) is a one night stand playboy in Los Angeles that is proud of his status.  He cruises the bars looking for his next sexual conquest.  His best friend and work partner is Danny (Michael Ealy) is the nice guy who is still nursing a broken heart from a breakup a year earlier.   Bernies latest conquest is Joan (Regina Hall) a foul mouthed wild child that matches Bernie for raunch.  With Bernie and Joan dating they set up Danny with Joan's roommate and best friend Debbie (the lovely Joy Bryant) and they really hit it off.  They become the loving couple moving in together while Bernie and Joy are on again/off again.

When the first version was sweet and comical with this version they went with raunch, foul language and near port standard sex.  Hint:  Don't go see this movie with your teenage child.  After 15 minutes my wife couldn't handle being in the theater with my teenage son and left.  This movie could go for soft porn and they leave little for the imagination .  Both male and females discuss oral sex in very descriptive terms.  Clearly they were going for the younger audience and not the fans of the original.

Some of it works.  When Hart is funny he is very funny.  Hall has her moments too.  For me the movie goes too much to raunch for their comedy instead of good writing.  A little raunch can be funny and good.  But when you base your whole movie on it you lose the edge and it just becomes irritating.

I would wait to rent this one.