Despite it's bizarre and and slightly off-putting title, Hot Tub time Machine is freakin halarious. I was lucky enough to catch a screener of the film in Aventura last Monday. Lots of people are comparing it to The Hangover - even calling it this year's Hangover. However, I found even more hilarious and outrageous than The Hangover. With it's nostalgia aspect alone, it's definitely worth checking out if your looking for a good comedy.
Hot Tub Time Machine Movie Blurb by Shale April 6, 2010 Today at work I was assigned to accompany a couple of our residents who wanted to go on a movie date and this was their pick. This movie has been out since March 26th, (Spring Break) and seems to be targeting the adolescent male demographic. I hadn't planned to see it. Not that I don't see and enjoy other adolescent flicks like Sex Drive or The Girl Next Door, but just didn't think this one would be that appealing. For one thing, it was about the lives of three middle aged men who transport back a quarter century into their youth - with the only real 20-something being Jacob (Clark Duke) a nephew who went back with them by being in some kind of hot tub time machine. The movie starts by showing the losers in the present. Adam (John Cusack) whose girlfriend just left him and took his flat screen with her, Nick (Craig Robinson) a guy obsessed with staying in his lousy marriage and Lou (Rob Corddry) an alcoholic who drunkenly parks in his closed garage with the engine running. Suspecting Lou may have tried committing suicide his two used-to-be best friends decide to take him to a ski resort they enjoyed in their youth. Jacob, Adam's nerdy, video game addicted nephew tags along. The ski town is mostly shuttered, the ski lodge is a dump and the hot tub is a crypt for a dead raccoon. But the hot tub magically becomes active and warm and the guys all strip and get into it to male-bond. 4 Naked Guys in the Hot Tub They drink a bit (much) and after a while the machine shorts out and they are hurled (literally) thru time to 1986. Now, to us and to each other they look like their middle-aged selves, but to everyone else they are the slim, stylish 20-somethings they were in the '80s. The Guys Lookin' in the Mirror They have to relive all the trauma of that night, for as Jacob explains "the butterfly effect," any changes to the past will affect the future. In fact, Jacob has the habit of fading in and out whenever something appears to be changing his future from the past in which he didn't exist. Oh yeah, gotta keep the temporal paradox in mind. The rest of the movie is the guys reliving this past and not trying to mess it up and trying to get back to their own time, with the occasional visit of the Hot Tub Repairman (Chevy Chase). There was one running gag with the present day one-armed bell hop (Crispin Glover) who has both arms in the past. There are several potential ways of him losing his arm as the guys watch in anticipation. This is a teen T & A flick, (which surprisingly showed big hairy male asses as often as female). Some critics mentioned homophobic humor, but I saw it as the usual het male aversion to doing certain intimacies with other males and actually thought Rob Corddry's character was on the verge of coming out several times. I can see some ppl enjoying this flick more than I did, but it wasn't all that great for me. Luckily, I was being paid to watch it. BTW, I have some experience with hot tubs and here is one that goes back in time. 18 Naked Ppl in a Hot Tub 1987
Which parts were funny? I mean it was an ok movie, a few laughs here and there, but it was hardly hilarious
Just showed this movie to a whole group of friends and they absolutely loved it... Haven't heard anyone with negative feedback or 'ok' feedback until you... thought it was even funnier than the Hangover.
maybe you are getting feedback from a bunch of people with no sense of humor? =-P takes all kinds, i guess.
