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Well played, Hot Tub Time Machine, well played. You defied expectations, in a good way, and managed to evolve from "potentially silly concept" to "fairly funny film."
Admirably turns a potentially one-note joke into a consistently funny package.
Hugely raunchy and undeniably funny, with Cusack adding just a hint of sweetness.
Director Steve Pink offsets the satire with moments of genuine warmth.
Hot Tub Time Machine is funnier than any movie called Hot Tub Time Machine has a right to be. And how funny is that? Not very, but a little.
Yes, it's funny. Often really funny.
Through its slack editing and direction, Hot Tub Time Machine gives the impression of a halfhearted effort, as if the film's name and story were wacky enough that any old gag would do.
it has the timing and insight of a Borscht Belt comic from the 1930s.
The Hangover meets Back to the Future in this hilarious and unapologetically adult buddy chuckler.
Hot Tub Time Machine is rough around the edges ... [but] it offers us closure on a decade of great comedy -- from the very silly Anchorman to the deathly serious Funny People -- in which childish men are forced to grow the hell up.
Hollywood nam ovim filmom pokazuje da, s vremena na vrijeme, zna stare ideje iskoristiti na svje i zabavan način
It doesn't care to explain how a jacuzzi becomes a de facto DeLorean ... nor does it get too bogged down in its butterfly effect meddlings -- it just wants to be a piece of good-times stupidness.
Despite the naff-sounding name which could easily have been a throwaway offering, it's actually one of the more fun comedies which sees grown men reduced to acting like teenagers.
Despite being more muddled than a frat house 'cocktail', still manages to maintain a level of charm.
full review at Movies for the Masses
Greed is still good for these children of the 80s in the high concept mess Hot Tub Time Machine.
Mindlessness 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.
... swaps out clever plotting and smartly-tuned dialogue for horndog humor, excrement gags, drunken shenanigans and, of course, wanton sex...
A kinky cross of Caligula and Back to the Future!
What transpires during the course of 100 beautifully deranged minutes is lewd, crude and delightfully funny. Trying to make sense of it would be missing the point.
Think of it as the bastard punk offspring of Back to the Future and Groundhog Day.
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