The Story: When
Lou Dorchen gets shot in the dick at a party, 3 out of the 4 men from Hot Tub
Time Machine travel through time to find his murderer.
The Facts: This
sequel to 2010’s Hot Tub Time Machine stars Clark Duke as Jacob Dorchen, Rob Corddry as Lou Dorchen, Craig Robinson as Nick Webber and Adam Scott as Adam
Yates Jr. The film sees the return of both writer Josh Heald and director Steve Pink.
My Overall Take on
the Movie: In my opinion Hot Tub Time Machine 2 was a cash grab movie for
the sole purpose of banking on a semi successful and semi original first film.
This movie was definitely not necessary to continue the story of the first film
and was a blatant “rip-off” of Back to the Future Part II. I put rip-off in quotes
because the plot isn’t the same but they clearly took the idea of going to the
future in the second movie from BTTF2 (The even reference Back to the Future in the movie), and executed much less eloquently. While
it wasn’t the worst movie I’ve seen and I don’t regret watching it, it did not
live up to the first film and it honestly wasn’t even that funny so it failed
at it main purpose, making people laugh.
Things I liked: I
didn’t really like much in this movie to be honest. I enjoyed seeing the
characters again and I enjoyed the 3 main actors performances because I love
the actors but I didn’t laugh much. I remember 3 distinct times I laughed and
they were all call backs to the first movie.
Things I Didn’t Like:
The story felt very forced and as I said before I think this movie was just
a cash grab to bank on the success of the first but by the looks of it I don’t
think it will be that popular. I saw this movie in a theater on a Friday night
and there were only 4 other people besides myself watching the movie. The plot
wasn’t very good and the jokes didn’t land, almost at all.
Rating: 3 out of 10
Final Verdict: Save for Netflix if
you’re bored one night!!!
My Favorite Scene:
“So that must mean you came in a Hot Tub Time Machine, Too!”
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