Unexpectedly starring John Cusack along with Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, and Rob Corddry, it also features Chevy Chase, Crispin Glover, and The Middle's Charlie McDermott.
Lou (Corddry) has a sucky life and tries (for what is apparently not the first time) to commit suicide. In a bid to cheer him up, his old friends Adam (Cusack) and Nick (Webber), along with Adam's nephew Jacob (Duke), (all of whose lives suck also) show up to take him on a road trip to Kodiak Valley Ski Resort where they had some of their best times as kids. Thing is, Kodiak Valley isn't the hopping place it used to be. It's ok though because after a night of drunken partying in a mysterious hot tub, mixed in with a strange and illegal energy drink, the group finds them whisked back to the 80's, at the height of Kodiak Valley's party days, and - as far as anyone else can tell - in their younger bodies. A squirrel is somehow involved.
Events play out more or less predictably as the butterfly effect is discussed and the four friends try to decide between making sure they don't destroy history and changing their futures for the better. Jacob is especially concerned about these things, seeing as he isn't even born yet at this point in history.
There are some genuinely funny moments, not the least of which being any scene involving Phil the bellhop (Glover). Admittedly, pretty much any movie involving time travel already has my interest, but Hot Tub Time Machine is actually pretty decent. There is actually a plot and there even seems to have been some thought put into it. It's rather clever (in a somewhat juvenile fashion) at times, and is not quite as raunchy as the title might suggest - though still certainly deserving of it's R rating.
If you like time travel and don't mind some dirty humour, Hot Tub Time Machine is worth a few hearty chuckles.
*** (3/5 stars)
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