Getting Down and Dirty in the Hot Tub Time Machine

If you’ve ever missed the 1980s so much that you’ve wanted to go back to it, now’s your chance. Hot Tub Time Machine is a movie that combines the best of 80s movies with the Hangover and creates something that is entirely unique. If you’ve ever woken up the next day from a hangover and not known where you are, there is nothing compared to waking up the next day in a different time period and not knowing when you are.

The main characters John Cusack, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, and Rob Corddry are comic legends that all come together in this movie to play Adam, Jacob, Nick Webber, and Lou, the four characters that get stuck in a hot tub time machine and go back to the 1980s.

These four lifelong friends are sad about their lives, and they visit a ski resort to get away from it all. When they’re there, they find a hot tub time machine that transports them to another time period, 1986. They’re all living out their younger versions. This movie is an homage to the 1980s. This movie is about male bonding and the 1980s. This movie has elements of comedy, sci fi, and bromance. Bromance is an emerging genre where people come together and bond through male friendship as opposed to a male female relationship which is the traditional romantic comedy. Hot Tub Time Machine movie is about male friendship.

It’s not a sophisticated movie, but that is ok because it makes the humor funnier. There are tons of references to the 1980s, and this movie allows us to live out our love of the 1980s one more time. They have a great soundtrack that is composed of 1980s songs too.

This buddy comedy is one you shouldn’t miss because it is really an escapist movie that allows you to escape into fantasy for awhile and laugh while you’re doing it. Not all movies allow you the true pleasure of escapism, vicariously, and this movie is about escapism into a time that was funnier, funner, and more innocent – the 1980s. The four characters do a good job of not taking themselves too seriously. Chevy Chase is even in the man, and he is a real mentor to these four comic geniuses. He makes us feel like we’re in the 1980s because he was a real comic kingpin of the 1980s.