Hot Tub Time Machine
Hot Tub Time Machine has three buddies whose best days are way behind them. They decide to revisit their halcyon days by going on a ski trip to one of their old haunts after a wakeup call prompted by the attempted suicide of one of the trio. That would be Lou (total standout Rob Corddry) an alcoholic divorcee with a vile personality. The road trip seems like the perfect tonic for all three to Nick (Craig Robinson) a bored pet therapist with a cheating wife and Adam (John Cusack) a jaded insurance salesman freshly dumped by his girlfriend. Along with Adam‘s geeky nephew Jacob (world's coolest nerd Clark Duke) they head off to discover that their old haunt looking a little haunted. However it does come complete with a hilarious running gag via the one armed bellhop Phil (Crispin Glover) and a hot tub. When the boys fire up this spa it’s transformed into a time machine due to an electrical mishap caused by the illegal ingredients of the Russian equivalent to Red Bull called Chernoblee. All four wake up in 1986 and quickly realize they must do everything the same as they did on that night 25 years prior to get back to the future (hey, that might have been a good title!) or the butterfly effect could ruin the world. For some that means reliving terrible physical pain for others it means sex with a beautiful woman yet surprisingly neither seems preferable. Hot Tub Time Machine by way of the title leaves little to the imagination whereas the potty mouth, body-function-centric scenario definitely shows some imagination and is a great movie for fans of films like last years sleeper The Hangover. Even though filmed locally it has clearly dodged the Vancouver curse.