Released on DVD on June 27
Time travel, that fantastic concept of moving between years instantaneously. Back or forward. To party like it’s 1999, in 1999. To finally witness the Dallas Mavericks win a championship. In 2099?
It’s fiction. Time travel, I mean (the notion of the Mavs getting their first-ever ring is a bit more plausible). But that doesn’t stop us from imagining the possibilities should such a thing as a “time machine” existed.
Yup, I just watched “Hot Tub Time Machine.”
The movie, starring John Cusack and Craig Robinson, is obviously not the first one dealing with the topic. Timeless classics like “Back to the Future” and “Terminator” have already made our brains scramble with all kinds of ideas about changing the past, or preventing the future.
I’ll try not to spoil the movie, which was quite funny in my opinion, even though it probably won’t belong in that “timeless classics” section at the library. This is a film that deals with three friends who all have some sort of beef in their lives: a wife’s walk-out, a cheating girlfriend, an all-around mess of a life, etc. They go to a ski resort for a weekend of fun, but end up in “Winterfest ‘86” thanks to their hot tub. Along in their trip is a 20-something-year-old who gets to see what life was like a year before he was born.
They all freak out, as most of us would if we woke up one day and found out the internet hadn't been invented yet and couldn't check our Facebooks, but remain calm enough to try to look for a way to get back to their time. Unlike in every other time travel movie, however, the characters of this one actually get to be their 1986 selves (no risk of "running into themselves"), and they are given a chance to do things differently for one weekend, and possibly change their entire lives.
Twenty-something-year-old dude isn’t too thrilled, though. His attractive mother is at the festival, and he doesn’t want anyone changing anything that could endanger his own existence.
The script is silly, but it’s done on purpose. The film pokes fun at itself and other time travel movies by deliberately “borrowing” bits and quotes from these. Also, the cast is extremely likable, needed for a picture with its dose of crude humor.
And it’s not all raunchy jokes anyways. There’s also romance. One of the characters meets a girl whom he has to leave behind (obviously) because he needs to get back to the present. Best line of the movie: when they “hug goodbye,” she tells him, “Maybe the universe will bring us together again.”
One weekend that could change everything in your life. What weekend would that be? And do you really do things differently? They say everything happens for a reason. But don’t let “Hot Tub” be the reason to do all this thinking. This movie is just 100 minutes of enjoyable comedy.
That being said, I’m never falling asleep in a hot tub with my three distressed friends. Just in case.
It’s fiction. Time travel, I mean (the notion of the Mavs getting their first-ever ring is a bit more plausible). But that doesn’t stop us from imagining the possibilities should such a thing as a “time machine” existed.
Yup, I just watched “Hot Tub Time Machine.”
The movie, starring John Cusack and Craig Robinson, is obviously not the first one dealing with the topic. Timeless classics like “Back to the Future” and “Terminator” have already made our brains scramble with all kinds of ideas about changing the past, or preventing the future.
I’ll try not to spoil the movie, which was quite funny in my opinion, even though it probably won’t belong in that “timeless classics” section at the library. This is a film that deals with three friends who all have some sort of beef in their lives: a wife’s walk-out, a cheating girlfriend, an all-around mess of a life, etc. They go to a ski resort for a weekend of fun, but end up in “Winterfest ‘86” thanks to their hot tub. Along in their trip is a 20-something-year-old who gets to see what life was like a year before he was born.
They all freak out, as most of us would if we woke up one day and found out the internet hadn't been invented yet and couldn't check our Facebooks, but remain calm enough to try to look for a way to get back to their time. Unlike in every other time travel movie, however, the characters of this one actually get to be their 1986 selves (no risk of "running into themselves"), and they are given a chance to do things differently for one weekend, and possibly change their entire lives.
Twenty-something-year-old dude isn’t too thrilled, though. His attractive mother is at the festival, and he doesn’t want anyone changing anything that could endanger his own existence.
The script is silly, but it’s done on purpose. The film pokes fun at itself and other time travel movies by deliberately “borrowing” bits and quotes from these. Also, the cast is extremely likable, needed for a picture with its dose of crude humor.
And it’s not all raunchy jokes anyways. There’s also romance. One of the characters meets a girl whom he has to leave behind (obviously) because he needs to get back to the present. Best line of the movie: when they “hug goodbye,” she tells him, “Maybe the universe will bring us together again.”
One weekend that could change everything in your life. What weekend would that be? And do you really do things differently? They say everything happens for a reason. But don’t let “Hot Tub” be the reason to do all this thinking. This movie is just 100 minutes of enjoyable comedy.
That being said, I’m never falling asleep in a hot tub with my three distressed friends. Just in case.