Hot Tub Time Machine (Unrated) [Blu-ray]
by Steve Pink
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Actor: Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, John Cusack, Lizzy Caplan, Rob CorddryDirector: Steve Pink
Brand: MGM
Producer: John Cusack
Producer: Grace Loh
Producer: Matt Moore
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2010-06-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: Blu-ray
- AC-3; Color; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen
Blu-ray Reviews of Hot Tub Time Machine (Unrated) [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Spoiler-free review: Good clean fun! (well.. not so clean)
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm not normally a fan of raunchy, over-the-top, "boobies and beer" comedies. I didn't see why The Hangover was so great, but I had a great time watching Hot Tub Time Machine. Yes, the premise of going back in time via a hot tub is utterly ridiculous and you could see the film's ending coming from miles away, but it got a few good laughs out of even a cynic like me. Hot Tub has just the right chemistry to make it work. Maybe it's because of the excellent casting choice. In the hands of another set of actors and comedians, this movie could've really stunk.
If you're a fan of Craig Robinson's style of humor or Rob Corddry's (from The Jon Stewart Show), you'll like Hot Tub. It follows a time-tested formula, used by Beerfest, the Harold and Kumar films, and many others: beer, girls, comic mishaps. Not coincidentally, it reminded me of classic 80's mischief like Revenge of the Nerds, Back to the Future, and Weird Science for its campy humor.
HTTB is at its core a buddy movie. Three dysfunctional middle-aged losers, each with their own problems and failures in life, decide to rekindle their friendship when one of them, Lou, a depressed alcoholic, tries to kill himself through carbon monoxide poisoning. They've drifted apart over the years and head off to Kodiak Valley ski resort to relive old times. They take Adam's (John Cusack) nerdy, shut-in, Second Life-addicted nephew with them. He brings along an "illegal" Russian energy drink on the trip. When they arrive, they find the town run-down and dilapidated. Determined to have a good time, nonetheless, they get into the hot tub and booze up. They wake up to find themselves hungover and in 1986, reliving their past and trying to avoid "the butterfly effect" of altering the future by changing events of the past. From there, they get into a series of R-rated adventures with the requisite nudity and drunken sophomoric shenanigans. Everything wraps up neatly at the end with all strings tied and everyone happy.
As usual, slapping "UNRATED" on the box in slanted red capital letters is just a marketing ploy. It's really just two short scenes involving a topless woman and quite mundane. We also see several instances of Corddry's bare butt. I do not know how different the language is from the rated version, but Robinson and Corddry are as terrifically foul-mouthed as ever. They're paired for much of the later half of the movie, and together get into some very raunchy adventures, producing some of the funniest moments in the film and some memorable lines from Robinson (mostly due to his comical expletives and shouting). He does a lot of cursing, like his potty-mouthed barista character in Zack and Miri Make a Porno. The counter-point is John Cusack, who turns in a solid performance as the more level-headed member of the bunch. There's a running gag with the porter (Crispin Glover) losing his arm and Chevy Chase makes a cameo as an annoyingly dour and cryptic hot tub repairman.
As for complaints, the movie could've used more 80's-ness. Aside from a few sight gags all shown within 5 minutes of them arriving back in time (brick-sized cell phone, Ronald Reagan on TV, Miami Vice t-shirt, the famous Duran Duran poster by Patrick Nagel, leg-warmers) and references to 80's hair metal, the movie seems to drop this fiction pretty quickly in its art direction and dialog. I never felt a sense of nostalgia and most of the film still felt like it was happening in 2010. 80's songs play a prominent part in this film, but a lot of the musical selection I didn't recognize (or just didn't hear because it was in the background). Being a child of the 80's, most of the songs that I think of as quintessentially 80's were not here, like Boy George, Phil Collins, Madonna, Journey, etc, possibly due to licensing costs.
All in all, still a lot of fun if you're in the mood for a silly, and very raunchy good time. Leave your maturity at the door, but that goes without saying.
Description of Hot Tub Time Machine (Unrated) [Blu-ray]
Get ready to kick some serious past with the wildly inappropriate UNRATED version of Hot Tub Time Machine. The outrageous laughs bubble up when four friends share a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, only to wake up with serious hangovers in 1986 ? back when girls wore leg warmers, guys watched ?Red Dawn? and Michael Jackson was black! Now, nice-guy Adam (John Cusack), party animal Lou (Rob Corddry), married man Nick (Craig Robinson) and mega-nerd Jacob (Clark Duke) must relive a wild night of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll and try to change their future ? forever!Hot Tub Time Machine hits the bull's-eye: it's a rude, crude comedy with enough smarts and emotional sweetness to make it completely entertaining. Seeking to bring some youthful optimism back to their failed, miserable lives, three middle-aged guys--Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Lou (Rob Corddry)--go to a mountain resort where they spent some of their wildest days (reluctantly dragging along Adam's nephew, Jacob, played by newcomer Clark Duke). A drunken accident in the titular hot tub sends them swirling back to 1986, where each of them decides to risk changing the future (and possibly erasing Jacob from existence) by doing things just a little differently. A plot summary doesn't capture the movie's rambunctious, daffy spirit as much as? well, the ridiculous title: this is a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine! Any expectation you may have will be met and surpassed. John Cusack delivers another underplayed yet marvelously funny performance, his best since High Fidelity; Clark Duke, from the TV show Greek, proves a promising young comic talent. But the movie really belongs to Robinson and Corddry, who've been floating around the edges of tons of comedies--some have been good, some have been bad, but they've both been consistently funny even in crappy movies. Hot Tub Time Machine gives them center stage and lets them reveal the comic chaos they can deliver. It helps, but is not necessary, to have lived through the '80s to find Hot Tub Time Machine exquisitely silly. --Bret Fetzer
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