Hot Tub Time Machine is an 80's movie in more ways than their destination for their time travel, and there's is quite a lot good to be said about the 80's movies. I remember being introduced to the young John Cusack in Say Anything..., and wouldn't be without that experience. There's also a lot of John Hughes movies to smile at, and so on and so forth. Hot Tub Time Machine is never close to be lifted to such a level.
I like the movie in parts, like the divided assets after the split up, some of the 80's pop cultural references used throughout and such, but overall the movie never manage to stay on track enough to tell its story or stay off track enough to be considered a wild look at the 80's and nothing more. The plot, if you could call anything like this the plot, is awful and easily spotted miles away.
The abuse of those parts with potential and the overuse of all other parts, made this movie a tiresome experience for me. Come on Cusack. You can do a lot better than this. And I truly hope Clark Duke isn't going to be around doing so lousy acting and/or parts for the better parts of this decade. That would be unbearable.
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