Robinson gets some great scenes as well while Cusack holds things down as the reliable straight man. Lou has to clash with some ski patrol buddies and Nick has to sing at a bar, but the guys soon wonder how bad would it be if they changed the past some to potentially make their future a little brighter?Ĭorddry has always been good for a few laughs in supporting roles in films like What Happens in Vegas, but in Hot Tub he gets the opportunity to be relied on as a major contributor for the big laughs. For Adam, that means breaking up with his sexy girlfriend (Lyndsy Fonseca). To get back to 2010, they figure they have to do everything they did that same weekend. And worse, they’re exactly how they looked back in 1986. They decide to take Adam’s nephew, Jacob (Clark Duke), along for the fun to show him how wild their life used to be, but instead of the hedonistic palace they remember, the lodge is a run-down shambles.īut somehow the hot tub becomes operational and with little else to do, they hop in and find themselves transported to an era of brick-size cell phones, an MTV that just played music videos and neon colors are all the rage. It never has anything fundamentally to do with either their character or life choices.As far as time portals go, a hot tub is probably as believable as a car so if you can just go with the fact that a hot tub can take four guys to 1986, you’ll probably really enjoy Hot Tub Time Machine, a brainless, but very funny comedy.Īfter their friend Lou (Rob Corddry, Warm Bodies) is hospitalized after an alleged suicide attempt, his childhood friends Adam (John Cusack) and henpecked Nick (Craig Robinson, This is the End) decide to take him back to the ski lodge where they had so many memorable moments as teenagers. Each life trajectory apparently got changed by a tiny miscalculation or case of bad timing. Unlike “Grosse Point Blank,” which also allows its hero to confront his past, such a thing never really happens here. There even is one strange misfired bit about an NFL playoff game on TV where Lou remembers the outcome and so bets heavily. Whatever comic possibilities this situation held, however, get buried in an avalanche of sorry potty-humor gags and a frantic, let’s-try-anything-for-a-laugh jokes. The question confronting the three men experiencing deja vu is, do they change the future or not? The fourth one, who discovers his sexually adventurous mom (Collette Wolfe) among the Winterfest 1986 partygoers, definitely wants the men to follow the script so that he will be born. Oh yes, the fourth is Clark Duke’s Jacob, Adam’s video game-obsessed nephew who wasn’t even born in 1986. Rob Corddry’s Lou is a suicidal alcoholic. Craig Robinson’s hen-pecked and cuckolded Nick never followed his dream of a music career. Cusack’s Adam never has accomplished anything, and his girlfriend just dumped him. Lord knows these guys are losers with bleak futures. And, of course, the ramifications of going back in time so you can maybe change your life and career trajectory. Cue jokes about the awful clothes and hairdos of that era along with a soundtrack of golden oldies. '65' Star Adam Driver Talks His Sci-Fi Dinosaur Thriller and the Eerie 'White Noise' Parallels in OhioĪs the title indicates, four males pile into a ski resort hot tub for a night of heavy partying, then wake up in the year 1986.
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