Hey everybody. As Mike said before, sorry we haven’t been posting up any reviews lately. We’re quite busy with other things (like watching movies, getting laid and paid and feeding kids). Okay, maybe not all of those things, but we have been quite busy. However, all of the important times we have in our personal lives won’t keep us from posting our reviews and keeping you guys entertained by reading our awesome reviews. So without further ado, PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN OUTTA YOUR ASS!!!!!! (Just kidding).
What better way to start this review off at a random time, then to review a movie with a very random idea. That movie of course being “Hot Tub Time Machine”. Now when I first saw the trailer to this movie, I thought to myself “How the hell can a movie involving a hot tub and a time machine work?” This idea for the movie seemed very, very spontaneous, but sometimes good things can happen when crazy unexpected shit is put together.
In this film we’re brought to the attention of three friends. Adam (John Cusack), Lou (Rob Corddy) and Nick (Craig Robinson). As we watch the lives of these three characters, we see that their lives are quite miserable and sad. Adam’s girlfriend walks out on him to leave him with nothing, Nick is working at a luxurious pet shop giving colon cleansing to dogs while suspecting his wife of cheating on him with another man, and Lou is so depressed with his life that he attempts to commit suicide. With this action, they all decide that they need to take a break from their long and dreading life by visiting their old hangout place at a ski resort. Tagging along with them is Adam’s technology-obsessed nephew, Jacob (Clark Duke) who dislikes Lou for his asshole remarks and foul-mouth attitude towards him.
When they arrive at their destination, they notice that the resort is nothing like it used be when they were younger. The only cool thing that stands out among the resort is the hot tub outside of their room. The hot tub looks so awesome to them that they all decide to skinny dip in the hot tub while getting shitfaced to alcohol and other illegal drugs they brought along with them. After a crazy night of insanity within the hot tub, they notice that their surroundings are quite different. So different, that they start to see people at the ski resort dressed in throwback 80’s clothes. For a moment they assume that it’s an 80’s theme weekend at the resort, but slowly they find out that there in the actual year of 1986. Freaking out and not having a clue of what to do, they run into an unexpected maintenance man (Chevy Chase) who tells them that their hot tub is broken and at the same time hinting that he could take them back to their present time. However, he warns the four not to change anything in 1986. In other words, he tells them that everything that happened before in the past, must happen again (due to the whole space-time continuum theory). But knowing the four and what incidents that happened in their past before, we can assume that they take matters into their own hands.
This movie was surprisingly good. There’s a good amount of sex jokes and poop humor, but the script makes the comedy so clever that it works. I would describe the comedy of this film as “Fun Humor”. To me, there would be times where the joke would be funny and times where it wouldn’t. But for the jokes that wouldn’t be funny, seemed to have everyone else laughing their asses off. What really drew my attention towards the story was the chemistry that the four actors had towards each other. The communication amongst them reminded me of the four protagonists in “The Hangover”. Every actor seemed to fit their role and element perfectly and each of them made us care about them all the way through the film, even when one of them did inappropriate crap towards each other and/or anyone else. But with the good comes the bad, and the bad being just a couple of things I didn’t like. (1) Whenever a random comedic scene happened in the film, I felt that some scenes were too random and not very explainable. I know that the scene is supposed to reflect the title of the film but it still should’ve had more effort for explanation. (2) A similar situation happened around the end of the film. When it comes to a movie involving time travel, I would expect it to do clever scenes that benefit the character(s), due to a certain change that occurred in the past. I won’t say whether it does or doesn’t in this film, I’ll just say that the climax of the film went just a little too fast and it could've been better. That kinda sucks, because I didn’t feel that “Back to the Future” reminiscing whenever I watch a movie or television show that involves time travel.
But despite all of my negative opinions, this is a really fun comedy. If you enjoy “The Hangover”, “Back to the Future” and every other film that involves the 80’s, you oughta check this film out. Hell if you grew up in the 80’s and still love it (even though the culture is 3 decades old) I highly recommend you to check out this movie.
My Rating: SEE IT!!!!
Next Review: Clash of the Titans? Kick-Ass, maybe? See ya soon!!!!
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