Hot Tub Time Machine 2 * (2015, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Adam Scott, Chevy Chase, Christian Slater) – Movie Review

A Hot Tub Time Machine sequel? Really? Nick and Jacob (Craig Robinson, Clark Duke) fire up the hot tub time machine to get back to the past when Lou (Rob Corddry) is in trouble but they inadvertently land in the future with Adam Junior (Adam Scott).

Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke and Adam Scott perhaps aren’t the funniest men on Earth but they are hard workers and do their best to amuse, no doubt improvising some of their lines. But some movies, most actually, just shouldn’t have sequels, and Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) really is one.

The would-be gross-out comedy movie is rude and raucous, and energetic enough. Original writer Josh Heald‘s script trades on being deliberately tasteless, but it mostly falls flat, though there are some funny lines and funny moments. You brace yourself to be offended, but it is too lame to take much offence.

It’s sad to see Chevy Chase (back as the hot tub repairman) and Christian Slater (uncredited as the game show host) stranded in this, but John Cusack wisely checks out this time. It is credited as Un film de Steve Pink, director of Accepted (2006) and Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), and writer of the scripts for Cusack’s clever and amusing Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity.

It is rated 15 or R for crude sexual content and language throughout, graphic nudity, drug use and some violence.

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