Hot Tub Time Machine

3/26/20101h 41m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Forget the present. Change the future. Kick some past. ~

Overview:

Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.

Director:

Steve Pink

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$36,000,000.00

Revenue:

$64,780,213.00

Key words:

poison
time travel
one-night stand
singer
forty something
snow skiing
ski resort
1980s
butterfly effect
80s throwback
change the past

Cast

John Cusack

~ as ~

Adam

Craig Robinson

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Nick

Rob Corddry

~ as ~

Lou

Clark Duke

~ as ~

Jacob

Sebastian Stan

~ as ~

Blaine

Chevy Chase

~ as ~

Repairman

Crispin Glover

~ as ~

Phil

Lyndsy Fonseca

~ as ~

Jennie

Lizzy Caplan

~ as ~

April

Collette Wolfe

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Kelly

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Reviews (1)

John Chard
Written 11 year(s) ago
6
The Bubble Bath Boys.

I guess when push comes to shove, it is what it is and achieves its aims by pleasing the intended target audience.

Plot finds 40-something pals John Cusack, Craig Robinson and Rob Corddry stuck in ruts and magically transported back to 1986 courtesy of a hot tub. So basically the guys, still in their 40 something bodies get to relive 86 knowing what they know already, if you get my meaning?

What follows is a load of raucous behaviour, man child histrionics and crudeness as the mid-life crisis’ come thundering out in a wave of bad hair, iconic 80s dudes and teen angst. The laughs are plenty, if a touch juvenile, and there is at least an air of regressive reflection trying to make its point amongst the testosterone.

It does a job, just. 6/10