Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
By: Steve Pink (director), Josh Heald, Sean Anders, John Morris (screenplay), Josh Heald (story)
Starring: John Cusack, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover, Chevy Chase
Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.
There isn’t a whole lot to say about Hot Tub Time Machine. It is exactly what you’d expect from the poster and synopsis: A mostly-vapid gross out comedy with a lot of slapstick humor. Whether you consider that humor to actually be funny is going to depend entirely upon whether you enjoy the genre. If you are one of the people who believe The Hangover actually deserved to win a Golden Globe, you will probably love it. Me, I found it vastly mediocre and far too trite to make up for the misogyny that runs rampant in these sort of comedies. I honestly expected more from Steve Pink and John Cusack, and would point all of you to Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity as evidence that their partnership can actually produce excellent, clever films.
