This is the same old story. You know the one. You watch a movie trailer...for a comedy, let's say. You watch it and the film looks crap. It's a silly concept and has Chevy Chase in it...it's bound to be funny. But the trailer never makes you laugh...and it's supposed to contain the best bits of the movie, to convince you to go to the cinema to see it. No ta. No tonight thanks.
Then you watch the film and it's great.
And that, in a nutshell, is Hot Tub Time Machine. John Cusack, his nephew, and his two mates go to their old mountain resort where they used to hang out as teens. They get in their hotel room's Hot Tub...and end up in 1986. Then add the Back To The Future plot. Sit back and enjoy.
What's unexpected here is how tight the script is, how well cast the actors are, how sharp the gags are (it's great to have a comedy with profanity and jokes for adults...that's the crude ones, to be clear). Finally, Steve Pink the director knows how to direct comedy with the whole enterprise having a John Landis vibe about it (spit takes, surreal moments and deadpan gazes directly to camera).
It's not big and it's not clever. And Chevy Chase isn't funny. He never has been. But it's rare to find a comedy that works, these days. And any movie where you're hotly anticipating Crispen Glover violently lose his arm in a violent accident has to be at least checked out.
1 comment:
This was most amusing. It's basically an adult gross out comedy version of Back to the Future with many of the same story points and ideas...only played out with dick and fart gags and plenty of bare boobies.
I like it.
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