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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

 ABOUT THE MOVIE

Genre: Comedy
Starring: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Lizzy Caplan, Chevy Chase, Craig Robinson, Sebastian Stan, Crispin Glover, Clark Duke, Lyndsy Fonseca
Director: Steve Pink
Rating: M18 (Coarse Language & Sexual Scenes)
Year Made: 2009

 

 


 SPECIAL FEATURES

- NIL


 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Languages: English
Subtitles: English/Chinese
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 Widescreen
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Running Time: 1 hr 39 mins
Region Code: 3
Distributor: Origin Entertainment

 

 

SYNOPSIS:

"Hot Tub Time Machine" follows a group of best friends who've become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can't find the party; Nick's (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) won't leave his basement. After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the men wake up, heads pounding, in the year 1986. This is their chance to kick some past and change their futures - one will find a new love life, one will learn to stand up for himself with the ladies, one will find his mojo, and one will make sure he still exists!

MOVIE REVIEW:

"Hot Tub Time Machine" for a start might strike a chord in the hearts of many men. When you reached the age of 40 & beyond and you begin to wonder what aspect of your life would you changed if you can turn back time? This perhaps is the best lesson you can learnt from this absurd comedy amidst all the swearing, boozing and crazy sex.

Three men-child, Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), Lou (Rob Corddry) and Adam’s nephew, Jacob (Clark Duke) embarked on a trip to a ski-resort which they once got together and have a blast of a time back in 1986, supposedly to reclaim some of the lost mojo and more importantly to cheer up Lou who earlier had encountered an freak accident in his own garage. Despite the place being so shabby 24 years later, the foursome managed to enjoy a night of boozing and hot-tubbing and magically being transported back in time and into their younger selves the day after.

What follows is a series of gross-out routines as the foursome or threesome as technically Jacob wasn’t born yet tries to find a way to get back to the present without triggering the so-called 'butterfly effect'. In this aspect, they must trace back and promised to follow the routines they did in 1986. Adam must break-off with his girlfriend, Nick having sex with a girl while Lou gets punched by an overzealous resort guard. By now I’m sure you know things aren’t going the way they had planned.

Like all raunchy comedies, "Hot Tub Time Machine" offers plenty of unnecessary nudity, gross humour and genuine guffaws offered by Craig Robinson’s Nick. One of his best lines includes a reference to the late Michael Jackson and a laugh-out loud phone call to his then nine year old wife for cheating on him. Probably the break-out performance comes from Rob Corddry. Lou is a pathetic character; he is sleazy, crude, alcoholic and a loser in all aspects. Surprisingly, Corddry manages to turn him into a likeable misfit that you can’t help but root for him in the end.

The always classy offbeat John Cusack however has a hard time keeping up with his two other onscreen pals being in this low-brow comedy. His longtime pal, director Steve Pink succeeds in keeping up the slapstick factor though at times the narrative and structure comes across as haphazardly assembled as compare to a Judd Apatow or Todd Philips’ production.

In one of the running gags in the movie, Crispin Glover (McFly’s dad in Back to the Future) turns up as a one-armed bellboy that truly cranks out the laughs and shivers whenever he appears. Probably as a tribute to his popularity in the '80s, comedian Chevy Chase makes a rare screen appearance as the mysterious hot tub repairman.

The financially bankrupt MGM might not be able to afford the DeLorean for a time machine. Hey at least the hot tub bubbles, shimmers and glows. If you are a fan of vulgar comedy and not really picky about time travel logics, "Hot Tub Time Machine" could be just your best bet this weekend.

SPECIAL FEATURES :

Nil

AUDIO/VISUAL:

This DVD only comes with a Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack though it is good enough to listen with much clarity the ridiculous amount of F words that is peppered in every sentence and the 80’s infused soundtrack. There are no visible artifacts to smear your viewing pleasure especially ahem…the naked human anatomy.

MOVIE RATING:



DVD RATING :

Review by Linus Tee

Posted on 26 August 2010

 
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