Hot Tub Time Machine

Hot Tub Time Machine

If three guys approached you and asked you to go up into the mountains for the weekend, would flashbacks of banjo music send you screaming out of the room?  Clark Duke (Sex Drive) lives with his uncle, John Cusak, who plans a weekend getaway with friends, Rod Corddry (The Daily Show) and Craig Robinson (The Office, Pineapple Express) with promises of promiscuity, Jaeger bombs and passed-out drunkenness. All ambitions go out the window when they arrive at Kodiac Valley and are the only guests for the weekend.  It’s definitely not the place the guys remember from their last visit 20 years ago.

After failed attempts of finding female companionship, they realize there’s a hot tub off the back porch.  They party through the night, falling asleep in the hot tub, and wake up trying to remember the events from their Red Bull and vodka soaked evening.  Lou (Rod Corddry) glances in the mirror and sees a younger version of himself.  Making sure he’s not crazy, he invites the other guys in to take a look.  Magically, they’re all a younger form of themselves, except for Clark Duke.  They have been transported back to 1986 and Kodiac Valley is packed with neon clad mountain goers.  Suspecting that the hot tub is some sort of time machine, they call a hot tub repair guy (Chevy Chase) to help them peice together what has just happened.

Adam (John Cusak) who originally planned the trip to forget a recent breakup ironically, runs in to his ex on the mountain and starts thinking about a second chance with her.  Meanwhile Jacob (Clark Duke), a basement dwelling video gamer, finds out his mother was a bit sexually forward back in the day.  Lou, the party guy who can never find a party, hooks up with Jacob’s mom and essentially becomes Jacob’s father.  That’s how time travel works. Nick (Craig Robinson) is married to an controlling women and also lets loose to have a little fun with the ladies.  Besides the new and rekindled relationships, Lou comes up with ideas for bettering his lifestyle by finding money-making opportunities; ideas like Lougle.com and trying to invent the iPod.

Hot Tub… is directed by Steve Pink who also directed Accepted.  It has an awesome 80’s soundtrack and even a cameo by Crispin Glover (Back to the Future) as the bellhop.  It’s rumored he even uses the “Get your damn hands off her!” line.  And because this movie is Rated R, they can say the F word as many times as they want.  R-Rated comedies are so much better than PG-13 ones anyways.

Forget the present, change the future and kick some past with Hot Tub Time Machine.  It’s like The Hangover meets Back to the Future.

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