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...time travelers of the film are four pathetic individuals, discontent with their boring and mediocre lives. There’s Adam (John Cusack), a sadsack insurance salesman who has just been left by his girlfriend; Jacob (Clark Duke), Adam’s nephew and asocial, geeky “Stargate” fanfiction author; Nick (Craig Robinson), a former musician who now dissects dog poop for a living; and Lou (Rob Corrdry), an alcoholic who Adam describes as “an asshole, but he’s our asshole...
...Cusack and Duke’s characters, however, are less compelling. Adam gets bogged down in an uninspiring relationship with a music journalist (Lizzy Caplan), musing on predestination at odd, seemingly random points in the story. It’s as if Pink tried to dispense with the heavy, emotional baggage of the film as quickly as possible, which eventually bogs down the film’s pacing. Jacob, having not been alive in 1986, spends the majority of the film running around frantically, trying to figure out how to get back to the present...
...night soft-core woo-pitching will be disappointed to learn that the four people in the hot tub at the beginning of the film are all guys, three of them middle-aged. The movie has plenty of gross-out gags, mandatory for an R-rated comedy, but with John Cusack as its star, it may have skewed too old (late-30s, early-40s) to drag the young into its make-fun-of-the-'80s time frame. The picture pulled in a modest $13.5 million...
...stars John Cusack, who, despite a natural tendency toward the dour, was one of the most delightful things to come out of the '80s. With the exception of 2000's High Fidelity, Cusack spent the aughts in a serious rut (Serendipity, Martian Child), so it's good to see him come back, even in something this ludicrous. He plays Adam, the semistraight man of the enterprise: reasonably successful in business but disastrous in love (his girlfriend just moved out) and in friendship, having long ago ceased calling his old pals Nick (The Office's very funny Craig Robinson...
...audiences a unique comedy experience. As the movie’s title implies, the plot concerns a hot tub which possesses the unique ability to transport its users through time and space. The movie begins when four friends—three middle aged men, Adam, Lou, and Nick, (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, and Robinson respectively) and their younger, introverted, and videogame addicted friend, Jacob, (Clark Duke)travel to the ski lodge of their childhoods in order to escape from the grind of their adult lives. The trip is initially a disappointment; however, after a night of heavy drinking...