I got to see a screening of Hot Tub Time Machine the other night. It was pretty neat since I'd never been to a movie screening before and also because it was a movie I wanted to see based on its previews.
Overall it was pretty much what I expected. Just some good old fun, sometimes raunchy, humor. Everything was just so ridiculous and random and randomly ridiculous that you couldn't help but to laugh.
The basic premise is that four guys go to a resort up in the mountains and get taken back in time by a mystical hot tub. They find themselves back in their past and have a chance to live their lives a different way.
Far be it from me to criticize the plot and logic of a movie like this. I know that it's just an out there comedy and that no one would really go see it for a dynamic, engaging storyline.
Still, that was actually my biggest problem with this movie. Most of the humor came from the fact that it was simply a set of funny, ridiculous situations and scenarios, and don't get me wrong, they were hilarious and had everyone cracking up. But at the same time there just didn't seem a reason or a method to the madness. So many times something funny would happen and I would just be like, "...why?"
What minor semblance of a storyline didn't really hold up throughout the movie. As with any movie dealing with time travel, there were some rules of going back to the past. Honestly, it doesn't matter to me what the rules are or if they make sense. The one thing that gets me though is that you gotta stick to what you establish. HTTM never really decided if it was going to go by the butterfly effect, in which any tiny deviance is catastrophic, or a more Lost-like "whatever happened happened" where the universe course corrects for any changes you make, or the idea that you can change anything and everything. In a silly comedy like this one it's really not a big deal except for the fact that these rules and laws had an effect on the story and the motivations of the characters.
In addition to that, there just weren't any real goals for any of the characters. They kind of make a mention of them, but then get so far off track that you don't even know why they're there to begin with. There just didn't seem to be an endgame of any sort. I don't care what the genre is, it's hard to be very into any kind of medium when you're not invested and/or don't even care what's happening.
Overall, HTTM was a fun movie full of great moments and hilarious lines that you'll remember and laugh about for days. Aside from that there's not a whole lot to offer, but it's still a good option for some cheap laughs.
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