(4out of 5 stars)

What a phenomenal movie.  Seriously.  Anyone who gives the standard “Too Many F-Bombs” (which is true), or “The Time Travel Scene didn’t make sense” needs to just stop, and evaluate why they go to the movies.

This was the most fun I’ve had at a movie since The Hangover.  The premise: a group of 40 somethings, and one of their nephews accidentally travels back to the 80s after a Hot Tub Time Machine malfunctions.  They get the chance to relive the day all over again but can’t do anything to screw up the space time continuum.

Basically Hot Tubs are the new DeLoreans.

John Cusack was hilarious, and especially effective during his shroom scene.  Rob Corddry STEALS the movie as the catalyst of the movie who brings the whole movie about by accidentally attempting suicide.  And Crispin Glover has yet another time travel movie turn, this time as a one armed bell boy.  We are constantly teased by scenes showing how he (maybe) loses his arm.

The star of the movie; the phenomenal 80s soundtrack.  Poison, Motley Crue, and all sorts of other craziness.  I was 9 when the 80s ended, and man I wish I was about 4 years older so I could have enjoyed that decade.  What supremely awesome and yet at the same time awful music.

This movie is exactly what it set out to be.  Funny, stupid, and completely enjoyable with fantastic rewatch value.  In fact, I saw it twice in one week already.  And by the time I finished watching it with my aunt who remembers the 80s, she was already talking about having a Hot Tub Time Machine of her own installed.