Synopsis
Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Craig is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.
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Cast
- John CusackAdam
- Craig RobinsonNick
- Rob CorddryLou
- Clark DukeJacob
- Sebastian StanBlaine
- Crispin GloverPhil
- Lyndsy FonsecaJennie
- Lizzy CaplanApril
- Collette WolfeKelly
- William ZabkaRick
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
With sharp riffs on the intersection of '80s pop culture (ALF, Kid 'N Play, Ronald Reagan!) and 21st-century culture (Twitter, Viagra, Second Life!), this Time Machine is a fun dip into a pool of memories that are best forgotten again once the booze wears off. - 70
Village Voice
A fundamentally lazy comedy that will probably make you laugh like an idiot. - 70
Arizona Republic
It is a question that has vexed lovers of fine cinema for years: What if you made a teen sex comedy with grown-ups? And now, thanks to Hot Tub Time Machine, we have our answer: It would be pretty cool. - 63
Orlando Sentinel
A sloppy, raucous, time travel farce in the grown-men-gone-wild "Hangover" style, it’s a surprisingly satisfying, if not exactly LMAO, riot. - 60
Time Out
Like the "Scream" series, Hot Tub Time Machine is a cake-and-eat-it-too experience; you get both a vintage Brat Pack comedy, albeit one regrettably drenched in post-Hangover raunch, and an ongoing metacommentary at the same time. - 50
Variety
Even by recent standards for mainstream comedy packaging, "Tub" looks dull and ugly. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
A loud, disjointed and not terribly funny comedy, which probably is what one expects with a title like that. The unfortunate thing is, it didn't need to be. - 50
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Hot Tub Time Machine isn't a good movie, but like a bubbling bath it keeps pounding at us until our resistance wears down.
