Plot: Four guys get in a hot tub and travel back to 1986. Back in 1986 they relive their past and then return to the present. You knew that before your read this -- didn't you?
Review: Hot Tub Time Machine starts out slowly with a lot of gross-out images. After they get to 1986, the movie starts working, and it is pretty funny by the end. The humor is guy-oriented. There are a number of cover-your-eyes gross-out scenes. The characters are interesting and fairly well developed, but not very likeable.
My wife did not enjoy Hot Tub Time Machine because the sex scenes were not girl-friendly - probably misogynistic.
The movie knows that it is campy, but it plays the whole thing as a joke, and that is OK with me. You know that a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine was going to be campy.
Rob Corddry, who plays the "asshole" friend, gives a great performance and carries the film with his larger than life, fun-loving character. It would not have been enjoyable without him.
By the end of the movie, I liked it. The writer put in some interesting, introspective scenes at the end, and everyone likes a happy ending.
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry
Directed by: Steve Pink
Rating: 2.5 flasks; too funny to be a 2.0; started too slowly to be a 3.0
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