Hot Tub Time Machine: The Past Is Funny

Like most of you out there who can remember the mid 80's, John Cusack was a probably a big part of your theatergoing experiences. Movies like The Sure Thing, Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer and Say Anything were all box office gold and catapulted him into super stardom. So putting him in a movie that returns to 1986 is not too far off the mark.
Hot Tub Time Machine is a great title. Unfortunately like the equally descriptive name Sankes On A Plane, no one really seemed interested. Its too bad too because this is one of the funniest movies I've seen in a while.
John Cusack plays Adam, an insurnce salesman going through a bitter divorce. His nephew Jacob, well played as a neo-Greek Chorus by Clark Duke, is staying with him to avoid his Mom's new boyfriend. He recives a call that his friend Lou (Rob Corddy) has tried to kill himself. So to cheer him up they head to the ski lodge they frequented in their youth along with Craig Robinson's henpecked Nick. The place has fallen into disrepair over the years and the one armed bellboy (the hilarious Crispin Glover) seems truly bitter over his situation.
After a night of drunken debauchery, they find themselves back in 1986, in the bodies of themsleves as they were back then. We the audience see them as they are now but mirrors show us them in their youth. Clark Duke, as he wasn't even born yet, has a tendency to flicker out of existence.
What follows is the four atempt to get back to their own time helped occasionally by a ditzy repairman (Chevy Chase) and Clark Duke who would like to get back before he fades from existence. Time travel rules are explained and broken on a whim which makes the whole movie's paradox's rip roaring funny. Glover's bellman in the past still has both his arms and is constantly about to lose it, much to Lou's delight and disppointment when in never seems to occur.
Much like Bill and Ted this is a stupid but very funny movie. Go see it while its still in theaters

3 and half stars out of 5