zkonedog Considering the state of Hollywood comedies in this day and age, saying that any comedic effort is "decent" is a pretty, well, decent achievement. While no instant classic, "Hot Tube Time Machine" is most definitely watchable if you are in the mood for something a little different.For a basic plot summary, this movie sees four pals (John Cusack, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry) transported to the 1980s (via a hot tub). While in that decade as their younger selves, the four compadres must both figure out a way back home and navigate the long-ago culture & atmosphere.The most important part of this review is to say that "Hot Tub" does indeed have a tangible plot...separating it from most current comedies. It isn't just random stoner scenes or all-out raunch. It is sexually-charged and chock full of profanity, but those elements don't completely obscure a coherent structure and even a few dramatic moments.Besides the period gags, which are usually hilarious, what really makes this movie funny is the acting of those four leading men. Craig Robinson (Daryl of "The Office" fame) nearly steals the show, while Duke & Robinson also shine in their respective roles. Cusack, playing the "straight man", is just okay. Overall, though, the acting is a cut above most idiot comedies.Overall, "Hot Tub Time Machine" is indeed a watchable comedy adventure that will make you chuckle at both the circumstances and the characters. How many other comedies can you say that about?

Jorge Flores (Mr. Green) This movie is an amazing discovery. All the clichés, the old same jokes, and the recyclable characters in every comedy movie are here; a stupid story about three middle age best friends that travel to the past with one millennial antisocial nerd.Maybe describing this movie with all these elements might make it sound like a predictable and horrible comedy crap. But Hot Tub Time Machine has perfect timing jokes, the accurate pop culture reference and fabulous personalities in each character, that put together result in two hours of classic 00's comedy. Guaranteed. John Cusack is Adam, a frustrated and egocentric, mildly economically successful guy, that lives with his nephew Jacob (Clark Duke), a nerd that interacts with other people only in Second Life, in which he is also a loser. Then, one of his old friends, Lou (Rob Corddry), tries to commit suicide. So, Adam, Jacob, and Nick (Craig Robins) – other friend from high school, and the black guy every comedy needs- decide to take their suicidal and failed friend to Kodiak Valley, the pinnacle of youngster parties in the 80's, nowadays transformed into a decadent ghost town. Here is where this four underdogs find a hot tub that transports them to 1986, at the same Kodiak Valley camp. The three friends –Adam, Jacob and Lou- have to do exactly the same things they originally did in order to maintain the present undamaged. The other guy, Jacob, wasn't even born yet, so he just wants to go back to the present.Well, in their effort to keep the past unchanged, these three losers realize that they have the opportunity to transform their dreadful future with all the information they have. And that's exactly what they do, taking this movie to a happy, ridiculously and incredibly stupid ending; with a new master web searcher named Louggle included. You may think this is just bullshit, and that I can be easily amazed. But give it a try, believe me, Hot Tub Time Machine is the movie you're looking for when you don't have much to do.

kosmasp Not an instant classic, but a lot of fun to watch. I think you can summarize it like that. The main actors are doing a great job selling the very silly idea of time traveling with or rather inside a hot tub! If you get sucked into that, everything else will work too. But if you don't like that general idea ... Maybe you shouldn't watch the movie after all and save yourself the time (and grief).It's hilarious and it has heart, even when it's gross at times. Which it can be, but it's easy to tolerate and forgive it for those little moments, because it actually is funny. Trying to figure out how it actually works (the physics of the time travel) would probably lead into a territory the movie would not want you to go ... and why would you want to ruin your own enjoyment ... if you're having fun watching - stick with it

Ole Sandbaek Joergensen I grow up in the 80's, born in 1980, so I remember some of those 10 years very well, this movie is very much from that time, it is almost like looking at old pictures from vacations and stuff, where the heck did they get all that clothes :DThe clothes and being taken back are part of the more funny moments of this film, it has a kind of cult film thing about it, but in many cases it gets a bit too much, a bit too silly and a bit too presumptuous.Cusack has some special roles in some great and some not so great films at the moment, I am not convinced this is Cusacks standard sadly, but he does make a good appeal.