![]() But hey, at least the cars are sentient and drive themselves (as long as you don’t hurt their feelings). And where we’re going … we still need roads. Instead of the past, however, the tub picks a new destination for the guys. Things seem pretty terrific in their time-manipulated lives, but when Lou takes a shotgun blast to the … little Lous, the trio heads back to the tub to stop his unknown assailant. And young Jacob (Clark Duke) is still aimless, living with pops Lou and reluctantly serving as his butler. Nick (Craig Robinson) is a pop superstar, cranking out monster hit songsbefore the actual artists can dream them up, accurate lyrics, be damned (poor Lisa Loeb, doomed to a life of cat wrangling). Crazed Lou (Rob Corddry) is one of the most powerful men in the world – both as the inventor of the Internet giant Lougle and as an ’80s hair metal icon – with the dysfunctional egomania to match. The Hot Tub Expositional TV News Opening Montage Machine lays out what’s happened since the last soak. Bags don’t come much more mixed than this. "Hot Tube Time Machine 2" proposes … what if it didn’t? What if, instead, time travel wound up in the depraved, often drug-addled hands of a bunch of unrestrained man-child ids, who then proceeded to violate space, time and everyone and everything they ran into along the way? The answer? Some laughs, I guess. In movies, time travel typically ends up in the hands of the decent or deserving. He’s replaced by "Parks and Recreation" regular Adam Scott – and a surprisingly vulgar mean streak. The big change: Cusack’s no longer with the series, seen only in old press still form. It’s still technically sloppy and frantic. Basically, for better or worse, it was a movie called "Hot Tub Time Machine."Īrriving five years later, "Hot Tub Time Machine 2" provides a pretty similar experience: messy time travel shenanigans pitching hit-or-miss riffs and jokes that top out at a serviceable batting average. That’s when the world was graced with the first "Hot Tub Time Machine." The ’80s nostalgia trip – complete with horrible outfits, era-appropriate tunes and John Cusack in the lead – was lewd, dumb, juvenile, technically sloppy, frantically told … and occasionally pretty funny too. ![]() Jump into your time machine – hot tub or otherwise – and hop back to March 2010.
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