Product Details

• Actors: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Chevy Chase
• Directors: Steve Pink
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: MGM
• DVD Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (156 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002ZG97XI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,459 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Hot Tub Time Machine" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Hot Tub Time Machine hits the bull's-eye: it's a rude, crude comedy with enough smarts and emotional sweetness to make it completely entertaining. Seeking to bring some youthful optimism back to their failed, miserable lives, three middle-aged guys--Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Lou (Rob Corddry)--go to a mountain resort where they spent some of their wildest days (reluctantly dragging along Adam's nephew, Jacob, played by newcomer Clark Duke). A drunken accident in the titular hot tub sends them swirling back to 1986, where each of them decides to risk changing the future (and possibly erasing Jacob from existence) by doing things just a little differently. A plot summary doesn't capture the movie's rambunctious, daffy spirit as much as… well, the ridiculous title: this is a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine! Any expectation you may have will be met and surpassed. John Cusack delivers another underplayed yet marvelously funny performance, his best since High Fidelity; Clark Duke, from the TV show Greek, proves a promising young comic talent. But the movie really belongs to Robinson and Corddry, who've been floating around the edges of tons of comedies--some have been good, some have been bad, but they've both been consistently funny even in crappy movies. Hot Tub Time Machine gives them center stage and lets them reveal the comic chaos they can deliver. It helps, but is not necessary, to have lived through the '80s to find Hot Tub Time Machine exquisitely silly. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

Get ready to kick some serious past with the wildly inappropriate unrated version of Hot Tub Time Machine. The outrageous laughs bubble up when four friends share a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, only to wake up with serious hangovers in 1986 – back when girls wore leg warmers, guys watched Red Dawn and Michael Jackson was black! Now, nice-guy Adam (John Cusack), party animal Lou (Rob Corddry), married man Nick (Craig Robinson) and mega-nerd Jacob (Clark Duke) must relive a wild night of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll and try to change their future – forever!

Customer Reviews

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60 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You know what?, April 2, 2010

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Tejana (New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Tub Time Machine (DVD)

I really wanted to hate this movie. When my friend opted for this on "husband-has-the-kids-tonight" night, I mostly agreed just to use up a free ticket. Yes, it is crude, and it is lewd and it's totally socially unacceptable. Having said that, I laughed 'til my sides hurt. I've not laughed this hard since Blazing Saddles. It is that good. Don't take the kids, don't take the parents, don't take bosses or members of clergy - just go, laugh and feel free to revel in the silliness. A bit of warning - when they say 'Rated R' they're serious...strong language and sex.

42 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll want to travel back in time to see it again! ***EARLY PRE-RELEASE SCREENING REVIEW***, March 11, 2010

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Renfield "Up the Irons" (Edmonton, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Tub Time Machine (Unrated) [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I first heard of this movie back in January of this year. I thought it sounded funny, but one I wouldn't pay to see in the theater. Then I saw the trailer, I thought it looked funny, and I decided "Eh, why not go see it? Should be good". Then my friend got an advance showing ticket and he invited me. I thought, "hey it's a free advance showing, go for it!" So I did. So anyways, that was a week ago today.

Tonight was the screening of the movie. And boy, did I love it or what! This is definitely a movie I would pay to go see again in the theater. From its stellar cast to its substantial amount of crude and gross humor, this is a film that is rude, crude, and unabashedly vulgar- and proud of it. And it's another roller-coaster comedy- the moment you think it'll get boring, it throws even bigger laughs your way. So in that sense, I can definitely say that I am glad I went. It was one hell of a hilarious comedy that kept me laughing.

After a stint that almost gets a person killed, his friends who are also unfortunately living rock bottom lives invite him to go on a road trip up to a snowy alpine town named Kodiak Valley, taking one's nephew. The town is practically desolate, and the hotel room is crappy. However, they find out their suite has a hot tub, and they get pretty trashed. Unknowingly, they knock over an energy drink and spill it on the panel.

The next morning, they wake up, but things aren't what they seem. For one, everyone's wearing fashion that was made big in the eighties. there's only one logical explanation: The hot tub was a time machine that transported them back to 1986!!!! However, since 3 of them are adults, they also discover they traveled to the day they went there for the Winterfest music festival with Poison headlining. So they decide to re-live the night they'll forever remember, while simultaneously trying to get back to 2010, ending up in several sticky situations along the way!

This was a fun movie for sure. It was totally odd yet hilarious. Tons of belly laughs, lots of WTF moments. Cusack sure didn't ruin his career with this one- he is very funny and he proved he can take on a rude and crude comedy very well. Crispin Glover has a small role here, and he really did the deed here too. But, the real star of the show here is someone I usually dislike- Rob Cordry. He stole the show greatly here. He was the real highlight here. He was consistently funny through and had me laughing so hard to the point I couldn't breathe.

However, I recommend that you do NOT let kids see this movie. The jokes, as I mentioned are rude and crude and extremely vulgar which almost push an NC-17 rating here. There's tons of sex jokes as well and couple ugly sex scenes that do nothing but add hilarity to the movie. The ending also takes a direction that most comedies nowadays don't. You expect the cliché comedy ending but you get something here that you are NOT expecting at all, so it gob-smacks you. I wasn't expecting it, and it made the experience even funnier for me.

In short, this was an amazing experience that is not for the squeamish and definitely not for the prudish. And I for sure will see it again when it gets released I will see it again for sure.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Is this Citizen Kane? No. It is a lot of fun? Yes., July 6, 2010

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Erik Bateson (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Tub Time Machine (DVD)

Hot Tub Time Machine delivers on every level it aspires to. In a year with such alleged comedies as "The Bounty Hunter" and "When in Rome," this is a refreshingly funny film.

The plot is minimal. Three high school buddies (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, and Craig Robinson from "The Office") and John Cusack's nephew Jacob (Clark Duke) revisit the Kodiak Valley Ski Resort where they went in their high school days. After a wild night of drinking in a hot tub (involving the spillage of a can of an illegal Russian energy drink called "Chernobly," the guys wake up in 1986. Besides the predictable jokes about '80s fashion and cassette tapes, there are some nice touches, such as the bell boy of the hotel (in both present and '80s days) being played by Crispin Glover, George MyFly from Back to the Future, an '80s film and a film about time travel, as well. A running gag involving the possibility of him losing his arm is some of the funnier stuff I have seen in some time.

Is the film perfect? No. Chevy Chase is wasted in a brief cameo, and without sounding like too much of a prude, the humor is a little crude for my tastes. Still, in terms of recent comedies, viewers could do a lot worse.

Recommended.