1. Good Date Movie. Whether you're taking your girlfriend or drugs, the films psychedelic boy meets girl story should entertain both you (hopefully inebriated) and/or your lady friend.
2. Music. Even if you're not a fan of The Beatles, you'll probably jam to many of the covers. However, a disclaimer is necessary: If most of your CD collection consists of club rap, skip this movie, it isn't for you. If your taste of music extends beyond what is force fed by today's mainstream, you'll dig the tunes. Tubular.
3. Boobies. A decent amount for a PG-13 movie, although I think the total count is an odd number.
   
4. Hypocritical hippies blowing themselves up with bombs.
5. Avoid lengthy stories from those who actually lived through the 60's. There is an advantage to watching this film. Next time your parents or some other generally aged person drone on about the magic of Free Love in the 60's, you can swiftly interrupt them by claiming you already know everything there is to know due to Across the Universe. The duration of the blank/dormant anger on their face should give you enough time to slip out the door.
   

I can deal with the occasional Trojan ad on CH, but maybe the screen filled with Doritos is overdoing it.

One token of advice: if you’re going to such a restaurant, tip the waiter decent or better. Two rules of life: Don't let K-Fed raise children and don't piss off your waiter. Both the children and the waiter are likely to hold grudges.

Talking to the waiter is fun because he resembles a DUI fool trying to talk his way out of handcuffs. At the police station. In a cell. It’s too late buster, no matter how many times you sputter “sorry” or “thank you” after the slightest interaction with me, it won’t make up for the hot coffee dripping down the side of my mug. Or, reverting back to the DUI analogy, it won't make up for the neighbor's dead Chihuahua lodged under your BMW. I don’t like Chihuahuas and I don’t like BMW’s and that that’s the only situation the two conjures up happy thoughts for me.