...hot tub time machine

As as guy who grew up in the '80's and approaches his 40th birthday I can relate to all the characters in this crude, vulgar and terribly funny movie except maybe the fat black guy. Hot Tub Time Machine is much funnier than The Hangover which inexplicably made nearly twenty seven times more money at the box office. Even I missed Hot Tub Time Machine in the theaters but paid $10 for the Hangover not including $6 for stale popcorn and $4 for a diet coke with enough ice to pack a crate of fish. Each of the characters in this great movie are having their own kind of midlife crisis and it takes a suicide attempt by the hilarious Rob Cordry to bring them together for the first time in years. To help their troubled friend '80's star John Cusack and fat black guy Craig Robinson agree to take a trip to the ski lodge which was once the site of their former teenage glory. After a drunken mishap with a Russian energy drink and an old hot tub the old geezers wind up back in the '80s with all the mullets, high fades, and hormones they had as teenagers. Thanks to a cameo by '80's legend Chevy Chase they realize that the consequences of their actions could have repurcussions on the future but they also recognize that their adult lives haven't worked out quite as they had hoped. In the meantime as long as they're stuck in the '80's they may as well participate in all night drinking binges, consume enormous amounts of drugs and try to nail as many chicks as they did in 1986. I predict Hot Tub Time Machine will find a bigger audience through DVD sales and a long run on cable. The Hangover was a blockbuster and will have an inevitable and most likely several forgettable sequels but the great comedy Hot Tub Time Machine, just like the great decade it celebrates, will be considered a timeless classic for years to come.