In the cinema: Hot Tub Time Machine

I gotta say, I really wasn't enthusiastic to see HOT TUB TIME MACHINE. The title alone sounded ridiculous. Then the concept, a bunch of mid-life losers try to reclaim the glory of their youths and end up going back to the 80s in a hot tub that's also a time machine. Add Chevy Chase to the cast and it pretty much spells out EPIC FAIL in my book. How can it NOT suck?

Easy. Load it down with TONS of raunchy guy-humor. That's it. It's 99 minutes of boys behaving badly, and it's GREAT! I guess since I walked in with ZERO expectations anything better than pure crap would've been fine, but this really was brilliantly clever, even the parts with Chevy Chase!

By now it's long gone from the theaters; I think I caught it just before it was swept out of the last few in NYC, but I see Amazon already has listed pre-orders for the DVD and Blu-Ray. I would hope there would also be an extended cut with even more raunch in it. For a good time, check out Hot Tub Time Machine!