(From left) Scott, Corddry, Robinson, Duke take a dip in timeĬan you recall a time when your best friend stayed over way longer than you anticipated? Inside-jokes started to become tiresome, small nuances in their actions bugged you and you eventually found yourself looking forward to them leaving. “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” is a lot like that friend. Taking place five years after the first film, the story begins with Lou (Rob Corddry) being murdered at a party at his mansion. In an attempt to save his life, Jacob (Clark Duke) and Nick (Craig Robinson) try to use the titular machine to go back and save his life, but find themselves ten years into the future, with Lou still alive, and, after a series of conclusions that still make no sense to me, the gang begins to search for Lou’s would-be-murderer. It is required to have seen the first movie to understand the plot of this movie. (2010) Sci-fi comedy starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke. There are no nostalgia rushes or historic commentaries like the first movie. Four discontented men find a portal through time back to the 1980s. Adam and his three loser friends awaken after a night of drinking and hot-tubbing to find. “HTTM2” substitutes this with a massive amount of current cultural references and even more self-poking humor. Parents need to know that Hot Tub Time Machine is like a college party weekend, filled to the rim with profanity, sex and sex talk, as well as drugs, alcohol, and a little fighting. This will likely make the movie not age nearly as well as its predecessor. Several sex scenes, which include topless women and some bare male bottoms, as well as near constant profanity (from 'f-k' to 'p-y'), make this a decidedly. A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not. Jokes are delivered like a modern sitcom without the laugh track or a modern “Saturday Night Live” episode. There are genuine laughs to be found, but there are scenes that are just plain unfunny and take up too much time. Towards the end, the movie just feels out of breath. The overall design of “HTTM2” is disjointed and lazy. The transitions between jokes and serious scenes are unnatural and random and the plot holes, which are never clearly identified as intentional or not, do not help either. Also, the performances, including new addition to the cast Adam Scott as the son of John Cusack’s character in the first movie, are nothing special and the cinematography is overall boring. “HTTM2” has many issues in what it delivers, but if you consider yourself a die-hard fan of the original, the sequel might bring some mild amusement.
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