Hot Tub Time Machine
It was actually pretty funny. Not as funny as The Hangover - and the plot was definitely disjointed and didn't make much sense... but what are you expecting from a film whose plot centers around a hot tub that travels through time into the 80s?
Hot Tub carries on in the same humor vein that The 40 Year Old Virgin and The Hangover did - fairly crude but not so disgusting that you can't watch the film. If you enjoyed those two films you'll enjoy this one, only slightly less.
The one thing that really bugs me about this film is that Cusack, one of the premier icons of the 80's, does nothing to play this up as they meander about a 1980s ski lodge. I think it would have been so easy to offer a cameo to Curtis "Do you realize what the street value of this mountain is?" Armstrong or Demian "I want my TWO DOLLARS!" Slade from Better Off Dead, a film that features Cusack skiing throughout the film. It seems as though someone really missed the boat on that facet - or maybe it was something that the legal dept killed.
**Note** - An astute reader (I have one or two!) pointed out two items in the film that I didn't notice; in one case I must have been grabbing a beer, and the other went straight over my head. The "Two Dollars" joke was dropped pretty early on in the film (this is the one I must have missed because of beer) so I'll have to retract my complaint. The other tidbit was a cameo I completely missed - William Zabka showed up as the gambler in the sports bar that Rob Corddry's character watches football in. Zabka is better known to the world as Johnny, the bully in The Karate Kid. Kudos to Brandon for the catch!
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