4/30/2023 0 Comments Hot tub time machine bellhop![]() Hot, slutty mom = time travel awkwardness. He fears this even more when he runs into his own mother (Collette Wolfe) and finds her to be a hard partying cokehead with an eye to polish any man’s ski pole that walks by. They start to stress out about the space-time continuum and running into their past selves which would make the universe explode, but when they look in the mirror, they realize that they ARE themselves 20 years ago, and no such paradoxes exist.īeing the good nerd he is, Jacob starts warning them all about the consequences of time travel, and how if they change anything, Hitler could become president of even worse, Jacob himself could never be born, as this was about the very time he was conceived. ![]() When they arrive, they quickly discover where they are when they see a sea of neon color on the ski slopes and the locals still believe Michael Jackson to be black. With nothing much to do, they decide to take a dip in the room’s hot tub, and then, for reasons that can (and should) not be explained, a spilled energy drink on the tub’s circuitry sends them into a spinning vortex back to 1986. Unfortunately, when they get there, they find the place is a shell of what it once was, falling apart at the seams and populated only by a surly one-armed bellhop (Crispin Glover). With everyone’s lives more or less in the shitter, the group decides to go on a weekend getaway to their old stomping grounds at a ski lodge up north. Adam (John Cusack) has been recently left by his girlfriend and his nephew Jacob (Clark Duke) won’t stop playing video games in the basement. Lou (Rob Corddry) is an alcoholic who is on the brink of self-inflicted death. Nick (Craig Robinson) is a dog groomer who has left his musical dreams behind. Fortunately for the film, it just so happens to be a cocktail for success, and Hot Tub Time Machine is a welcome flashback to the raunch of the 80s and an era when time travel movies actually used to be fun, before all the killer robots started showing up. A pretty random cast, a preposterous concept and a million different 80s references could really be a recipe for anything, both good and bad. This man-child adventure springboards off a suicide attempt by one of the gang (Rob Corddry) and it's some testament to director Steve Pink that he maintains interest in this character arc amid all the guffaws, nudity and liberal dropping of f-bombs.You walk into a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine with managed expectations. As usual, the point of the journey is to confront and correct the mistakes of the past, including bad break-ups and sex with the wrong person. John Cusack, who also served as producer, leads a doofus quartet of beer buddies on a crude lark wherein they travel back in time 25 years to a key night in their lives via the titular device. Either that, or this passably funny piece of toss-away adult-comedy nonsense is Hollywood's way of pushing the overused time travel device to comic extremes, just to see what it could get away with.Īnd, to its credit, the film does get away with it, if only in a boozy, ham-fisted, anything-for-a-cheap-laugh kind of way. ![]() IT'S just a theory, but an educated guess would be that some Hollywood wiseacre came up with the title Hot Tub Time Machine as a half-drunk joke at a party, scored a huge laugh, then thought, ''Hmm, I think I've got a killer pitch''. ![]()
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