My first guilty pleasure of the year, I thoroughly enjoyed Hot Tub Time Machine, a title that truly describes this movie. It’s like ‘Old School’ meets ‘The Hangover.’
I really like that this movie plot is so stupid that they don’t even try to hide that fact. All the characters easily accept that a hot tub can take them back to 1986. The movie dedicates less than two minutes to an explanation of time travel with the only credentials being that it is from a guy from writes ‘Star Gate’ fan fiction.
The movie plays on popular 80’s movies such as ‘Back to the Future’, ‘Red Dawn’, and any stupid movie that takes place in a ski resort.
The movie starts with three friends who are down on their luck. One tries to kill himself with a mix of whiskey, auto fumes, and a Motley Crue power ballad.
The three plus one ( the nephew of the John Cusack character) take a trip to a ski resort that they used to go to in their prime only to discover it is now a first class dump. Somehow, it really doesn’t matter, they have a working hot tub. They party. They get stupid. They end up in 1986. Don’t ask.
Now they in 1986 as they the ages there were at in 1986. The audience sees them in there 40’s but everyone sees them as teenagers. Only through mirror do we see them in there youth.
As in any time travel movie they can’t do anything that didn’t in the past lest irrevocably change the future. Chaos theory, what not!
I know what you’re thinking. Didn’t we see this plot in an episode of ‘Family Guy?’ Of course, we did. It worked there and it works here.
There are minor roles for Crispin Glover, George McFly in ‘Back to the future,’ and Chevy Chase. In true 80’s teen spirit there are copious amounts of drugs and brief nudity. They do a good job of picking music you may not have heard since 1986, such INXS’s ‘What you need’ and Poison; anything from them.
It is more than fair to stay that Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson carry the film.
I enjoyed this movie from beginning to end.
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