Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Learning About The Film Hot Tub Time Machine

By Rose Good

Major releases just are not quite bringing the funny as often as they used to be able to. While there has been a sort of comedy drought to speak of, that does not mean that some gems have been able to break through to the front lines. While it might not have done superbly in the theaters, you should certainly check out "Hot Tub Time Machine" if you like to laugh.

By reading through this particular article, you are committing to learn a little more about this film through a few different methods. More than anything though, you are going to get a breakdown of the plot and learn a little more about the sequence of events that made this film so epic in its own right. You will also get a brief introduction to some of the top names in this film and who they play.

This film opens up on what life is like right now for a group of middle aged men. Life has passed them by for the most part, and what is left of it does not seem to be shaping up that well for them. It chronicles the failing relationships of three of what are the main characters of the film: Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Lou (Rob Corddry).

Lou has too much to drink one night and decides that there really is nothing else that will make life worthwhile. He attempts to kill himself through carbon monoxide inhalation while parked in his garage. Nick and Adam visit him in the hospital and decide that their friendship has gone by the wayside for too long. They all commit then and there to take another trip to Kodiak Valley Ski Resort, which lives in infamy in their minds from a former trip there in 1986.

However, time has not been kind to the resort, and it is all but a dump right now. Without many options, they decide to all get into the hot tub out back and through a strange sequence of events manage to turn that same hot tub into a time machine. Next thing they know, they are living in the eighties once again. They even look as they did, when they experienced this same Winterfest '86 decades before.

Committed to not messing up the future by altering anything about the past, they determine that they have to make all of the same decisions that they made back then all over again. Adam is going to have to break up with the girl that he always considered to be the one, Nick is going to have to play a show and have sex with a groupie (much to his own dismay now being happily married), and Lou is going to have to find himself on the wrong end of a beat down.

Winterfest '86 takes its toll on the characters, though, and they decide that maybe they can change things this time around. Through a little bit of dumb luck and chance, the group finds out a lot more about their lives, what could have been, and what they didn't even realize.

Hot Tub Time Machine is a movie that is ideal for anyone that can handle crude humor and a truckload of eighties references. Everything about the eighties all rolled up into one hilarious film.

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