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...you’re doing a show and I’m not laughing, what’s your back up? How do you make me laugh...
...actor who undoubtedly steals the show is Corrdry, who, unashamedly and sometimes with glee, is not afraid to go for the easy laugh. This is evident in a scene in which he pulls out his own catheter, or his numerous instances of projectile vomiting, getting beat up, and rear nudity. It is mostly immature, but Corrdry pulls it off with a lot of energy and enthusiasm...
...That would be the dignified approach, but it would not represent the full truth of my Hot Tub Time Machine experience. Vomit, poop, etc. aside, the movie made me laugh as much as anything since The Hangover or the love scenes in Avatar. (Further disclosure: The two women seated to my left hardly laughed at all, and as the lights were coming up, one said to the other, loudly and pointedly, "I think it's more of a guy's movie." I tugged on my skirt hem and tried not to feel judged.) (See the 100 best movies...
...Some gags do fall flat. Chevy Chase is wasted as what Jacob dubs the "mystical time-traveling guy" who arrives to fix the hot tub; everything he says is mumbled nonsense and the only laugh lies in him being '80s icon Chevy Chase. But a gory running joke involving another prominent face from that decade - Back to the Future's Crispin Glover, playing a one-armed bellhop in the present and an intact but accident-prone bellhop in the past - might be the single funniest thing in the movie...
...shrieking to the safety of their room. It's funny, but in the present, Jackson isn't of ambiguous color, he's actually gone - and so the joke hangs in the air for an uncertain second. It's a reminder of how good it is to be able to laugh at the passage of time, because otherwise, you're crying...