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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The first must-see film of the year.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

There have been many movies, like Back to the Future or Peggy Sue Got Married, that let the protagonists travel back in time and played with the concept of how their actions could reshape the future. None of them care less about any of that than Hot Tub Time Machine, which really just wants to be a 1980s John Cusack comedy and pretty much manages it.After somehow traveling back in time through hot tubbing, three old friends and one kid born in the '80s confuse people by talking about stuff like email. A cryptic hot tub repairman mutters something that suggests they must relive the day exactly as they did before, but things, unsurprisingly, don't go as planned.All of this is just an excuse for silly gags. The youngster meets his party-girl mom. A character who in the future has one arm goes through a series of misadventures that *almost* result in its loss.Sure, there's some talk about life decisions and some touches on the concept of fate, but that's just because that's what you'd expect of a movie like this. It's all about the gags, and with a first rate cast, those gags are often very funny.If you're looking for a movie that makes sense, or has a point, or cares about the space-time continuum, this is not your movie. If you want sex jokes and 80s styles, check it out.

So, apparently in Mother Russia they lace their energy drinks with nuclear waste. Which in turn, when mixed with a hot tub, allows you to travel back in time. Sounds plausible to me!Yeah, this movie is more bothered with keeping it cool than keeping it in any way realistic. And, for the most part, that over the top goofiness really works in the film's favour. The situation itself is easily the best part of the whole film. Three hapless middle-age dudes – plus a tag-along – get transported into their glory days, but quickly find that the past, when viewed though the eyes of an adult, is not quite as glorious as they remember. Kind of like Groundhog Day, but as a teenage stoner comedy.What really keeps this movie from being more enjoyable to me are unfortunately the characters. The actors are fine, but the characters they portray are too straight in their clichnédness. There's the poor husband, the wimpy husband, the never-grow-up, the nerd, all of them more stereotypical than the other. And while the movie gets a lot of mileage out of them, and the ending is especially fulfilling because of it, the fact remains that they're not all that interesting and all the jokes at their expense are rather predictable.Still, it's a fun movie. Definitely worth checking out if you're looking for a comedy with an imaginative setting.

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

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.