Hot Tub Time Machine Delivers On the Absurdity and Laughs
There are a few, but not many reviews that have panned Hot Tub Time Machine. Unless you are really dense, you should be pretty much expecting a screwball comedy here. If the title alone doesn’t give it away…well you might need to learn words better.
You should be expecting a few guys to find out that they found a hot tub that can take them back in time. Absurdly obvious from the title. With hot tubs, and guys you know they will be looking to get drunk, hook up with women, and do insane activities. It’s jsut how things are. They aren’t going back in time to find a Mesothelioma treatment that’s for sure. They are going back to 1986 to party their asses off.
Here are just a few snippets from the critics:
“Hot Tub Time Machine,” which wants nothing more than to be a screwball farce, succeeds beyond any expectations suggested by the title and extends John Cusack’s remarkable run: Since 1983, in 55 films, he’s hardly ever made a bad one. Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times
Lifting the time-travel logic from Back to the Future, the seminal decade-busting film, the guys decide they must re-enact everything exactly as it was 24 years earlier %u2014 or risk altering the future in damaging ways. With Glover on hand and Chevy Chase as a time-portal repairman in a modified Christopher Lloyd role, all that’s missing is the DeLorean.Claudia Puig of USA TODAY
With sharp riffs on the intersection of ’80s pop culture (ALF, Kid ‘N Play, Ronald Reagan!) and 21st-century culture (Twitter, Viagra, Second Life!), this Time Machine is a fun dip into a pool of memories that are best forgotten again once the booze wears off. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly
“Hot Tub Time Machine” – a silly title for a movie that often lives up to it – is a blowzy, rowdy sci-fi sex comedy about three discontented buddies, sick of their current lives, who try to relive their 1980s youth on a ski lodge vacation. Michael Wilmington of the Daily Herald
