If you liked the Hangover last summer then you will probably like the Hot Tub Time Machine. As you can guess from the title this movie involves four friends who are on vacation and find themselves in a time machine that transports them back to time to the eighties. The eighties is when they were in high school at Winterfest at this resort where they had the best times of their lives watching Poison and skiing. The three adult friends are also traveling with one of their nephews who is twenty years old. In the past he meets his mother who is partying at Winterfest drinking, doing various drugs, and having random sex with many guys at the resort. This is definitely one of those dumb guy movies like the Hangover, but it is still funny. There are a few gross scenes that made me cringe because they are just gross bathroom humor. There are only so many fart-like jokes that I can sit through and watch. I did laugh though mostly because of the way the characters handled the past.
Most movies when characters time travel they try to stay out of sight and relive the same actions so as not to change the future. These characters started out the same way, but soon realized that their futures suck. Because they hate their future lives they might as well do whatever they want and see how the future changes. As a result the past finds their iphones, energy drinks, and one of the characters sings a black eyed peas song for an entire audience. The scene where he starts singing it is definitely one of the best in the movie as the eighties audience hears the strange new music. Because I am not a huge fan of these kind of movies I would probably rent it, but if you like them it would be worth paying to see in theaters. The movie also has Darryl from the Office and he is pretty funny.
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