Hot Tub Time Machine
by Steve Pink
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Actor: Chevy Chase, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, John Cusack, Rob CorddryDirector: Steve Pink
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-06-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Color; Dolby; Closed-captioned; DVD; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Hot Tub Time Machine
Movie Review: "Hot Tub Time Machine" is great!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Hot Tub Time Machine" is great! This is how the story goes: A group of best friends have become bored with their adult lives: Adam has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou is a party guy who can't find the party; Nick's wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob won't leave his basement. After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the men wake up, heads pounding, in the year 1986. This is their chance to kick some past and change their futures - one will find a new love life, one will learn to stand up for himself with the ladies, one will find his mojo, and one will make sure he still exists!
The cast led by John Cusack (who also produced) (as Adam) is great! The directing by Steve Pink (who also did the screenplays to "High Fidelity" (2000, also co-produced and was the music supervisor along with Cusack) & "Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997, also co-produced), both, ironically, co-written by Cusack, he is also producing the upcoming "Knight & Day" (2010) is great! The story by Josh Heald & the screenplay by Heald, Sean Anders & John Morris (both of them did the screenplay to "She's Out Of My League" (2010) is great!
The music by Christophe Beck (who also did the music to "The Hangover" (2009), "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" (2010) & the upcoming "Date Night" (2010) is great! The cinematography by Jack N. Green (who also did the cinematography to "Diary Of A Wimpy Kid" (2010), he also did the cinematography to Clint Eastwood's movies from "Heartbreak Ridge" (1986) to "Space Cowboys" (2000) is great! The film editing by George Folsey Jr. (who also did the film editing to "Animal House" (1978), "The Blues Brothers" (1980), "Coming To America" (1988), "Basic" (2003), "Cheaper By The Dozen" (2003), "Hostel" (2006) & "Hostel Part II" (2007) & James Thomas (who also did the film editing to "Bruno" (2009) & "Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan" (2006) is great! The casting by Lynne Carrow & Susie Farris (who also did the casting to "Elf" (2003) & "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003) is great! The production design by Bob Ziembicki (who also did the production design to "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" (1993) & "Scream 2" (1997) is great! The art direction by Kelvin Humenny (who also did the art direction to "Elf" & "Wind Chill" (2007) & Jeremy Stanbridge (who also did the art direction to "The Butterfly Effect" (2004), "Eight Below" (2006), "Shooter" (2007) & the upcoming "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (2010) is great! The set decoration by Jill Sprayregen Henkel & Johanne Hubert (who also did the set decoration to "Elf" & "Shooter") is great! The costume design by Dayna Pink (who also did the costume design to "Fame" (2009) & "Crank: High Voltage" (2009) is great!
This is a great, funny comedy that keeps you laughing and on the edge of your seat. This is different than most comedies out there right now. John Cusack, again, has another great movie under his belt.
Summary of Hot Tub Time Machine
Get ready to kick some serious past with the wildly inappropriate unrated version of Hot Tub Time Machine. The outrageous laughs bubble up when four friends share a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, only to wake up with serious hangovers in 1986 ? back when girls wore leg warmers, guys watched Red Dawn and Michael Jackson was black! Now, nice-guy Adam (John Cusack), party animal Lou (Rob Corddry), married man Nick (Craig Robinson) and mega-nerd Jacob (Clark Duke) must relive a wild night of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll and try to change their future ? forever!Hot Tub Time Machine hits the bull's-eye: it's a rude, crude comedy with enough smarts and emotional sweetness to make it completely entertaining. Seeking to bring some youthful optimism back to their failed, miserable lives, three middle-aged guys--Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Lou (Rob Corddry)--go to a mountain resort where they spent some of their wildest days (reluctantly dragging along Adam's nephew, Jacob, played by newcomer Clark Duke). A drunken accident in the titular hot tub sends them swirling back to 1986, where each of them decides to risk changing the future (and possibly erasing Jacob from existence) by doing things just a little differently. A plot summary doesn't capture the movie's rambunctious, daffy spirit as much as? well, the ridiculous title: this is a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine! Any expectation you may have will be met and surpassed. John Cusack delivers another underplayed yet marvelously funny performance, his best since High Fidelity; Clark Duke, from the TV show Greek, proves a promising young comic talent. But the movie really belongs to Robinson and Corddry, who've been floating around the edges of tons of comedies--some have been good, some have been bad, but they've both been consistently funny even in crappy movies. Hot Tub Time Machine gives them center stage and lets them reveal the comic chaos they can deliver. It helps, but is not necessary, to have lived through the '80s to find Hot Tub Time Machine exquisitely silly. --Bret Fetzer
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