Ah, nothing creates a romantic Valentine’s Day movie like remaking films from the 1980s.

“About Last Night…” is seen as a love it or hate it classic romance movie starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. So why did they decide to remake it? YOLO, that is why.

The remake of “About Last Night” (Trailer) is quite different from the original with one big, huge, glaring difference. Yep, they got rid of the ellipse in the title.

The story is about four people who go about love in different ways.

First, Bernie (Kevin Hart) and Joan (Regina Hall) meet at a club and have drunken, incredibly weird sex. But they love it, and they want to meet up some more, so they both bring their friends to meet each other, too. Joan brings Debbie (Joy Bryant), her “boring” roommate, and Bernie brings Danny (Michael Ealy), his work friend.

Somehow Danny and Debbie hit it off, thanks to their mutual disgust they both show from the excessive display between Bernie and Joan.

Aw, everyone is dating now. But Bernie and Joan hit troubles and really quickly start to loathe each other’s existence. However, things for Danny and Debbie are progressing quickly. They turn their adulterous relationship into love, and even move in with each other. Aww. But in the end, both couples seem to be making poor decision after poor decision. 

Maybe none of the four actually have all of the right answers?

Also, Christopher McDonald is in this movie, and he does not play a villain. That was maybe the most surprising element. 

It has been a long time since I saw the original movie, so I do not actually remember how much the new version differs. The expected plot lines and times throughout the year when they occur are the same, but everything else from what I can tell is different.

And it is hilarious. Technically, the main plot line is serious, dramatic, sad and romantic. But the side plot line with Hart and Hall killed it. It absolutely had me in stitches. Their charisma and banter was amazing. I am willing to say that the humor presented by these two is worth the price of admission.

I am not saying the dramatic elements from our main two characters are bad; they were good, too. But they were not super entertaining. It was just okay acting, and the characters made strange decisions that I never really understood. But I got over it.

The enjoyment I felt overall from laughing every time Hall and Hart were on the screen overpowered the lesser aspects that presented themselves in the story. Is it the best movie ever? Not at all, but “About Last Night” makes me feel a bit giddy, and that is why I ended up liking it.

4/5