
Three friends on losing streaks: Adam, whose girlfriend dumped him, Nick, with a dead-end job and a cheating wife, and Lou, a suicidal alcoholic. To help Lou recover from car-exhaust poisoning, Adam and Nick, with Adam's nephew Jacob, go to a winter resort that was their old party place. It's now a dump, but the lads rally for a night of drinking in the hot tub. Somehow, the hot tub takes them back to 1986, on a fateful night for each of them. Maybe if they do everything the ... (Full plot summary below)
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Three friends on losing streaks: Adam, whose girlfriend dumped him, Nick, with a dead-end job and a cheating wife, and Lou, a suicidal alcoholic. To help Lou recover from car-exhaust poisoning, Adam and Nick, with Adam's nephew Jacob, go to a winter resort that was their old party place. It's now a dump, but the lads rally for a night of drinking in the hot tub. Somehow, the hot tub takes them back to 1986, on a fateful night for each of them. Maybe if they do everything the same way they did that night, they'll get back to the future so Jacob can be born. There are serious temptations to do things differently. Will they make it back to their sorry lives? And what about Jacob?
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| Birmingham PostGraham YoungAfter he was forced to labour through the special effects in 2012, it's good to see John Cusack returning to form amid the constant silliness. |
| Seanax.comSean Axmaker... swaps out clever plotting and smartly-tuned dialogue for horndog humor, excrement gags, drunken shenanigans and, of course, wanton sex... |
| TIME MagazineMary F. PolsIt's a reminder of how good it is to be able to laugh at the passage of time, because otherwise, you're crying. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe movie itself is a nonstop barrage -- somewhere between a riot and an orgy -- of crude, obnoxious gags and riffs. If you are a connoisseur of sexual, scatological or just plain stupid humor, you will find your appetite satisfied, even glutted. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasThe '80s references, the profanity, the time-travel gags, the gross-out humor - it all comes sloshing together like one of those frat-party cocktails where they dump in everything they can find from the bar. And yet it tastes really, really good. |
| OK! MagazinePhil VillarrealThe nonsensical-as-Sarah Palin-quotes comedy zaps you straight to the mid-1980s, when cinematic orgies of pure hyperactive insanity such as Weird Science were not only possible but commonplace. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinMindlessness done pretty well. Three middle-aged friends and a Gen Next tag along whose lives haven't turned out as they'd hoped travel back to 1986 via the titular device. Stupid fun ensues, some of it involving Crispin Glover. |
| CNNRadioPaul ChambersComedy is hard, real hard. Making stupid funny is even harder. Not nearly as good as "The Hangover," but I really laughed a lot. Nicely done and really gross. Paul Chambers, CNN. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarDon't try to teach me about life in a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine. Stick to the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. It's your destiny. |
| Richard Roeper.comRichard RoeperBest title since "Snakes on a Plane" and consistent laughs throughout. |