Review: 'Hot Tub Time Machine 2' Doesn’t Come Close To The Original
James Canellos ‘17 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer
After Lou (Rob Corddry) used his knowledge of the future to create some of histories most profitable creations and his own iteration of the band Mötley Crüe (or Mötley Loü) the gang is living it up pretty well five years after their first hot tub ride. Nick (Craig Robinson) has been ripping off the most popular songs written in modern time. Lou’s son Jacob (Clark Duke) is being pushed to the side of his father’s success and feels like he’s being undermined as Lou’s butler.
While the guilt of their unearned success is on Nick’s conscious, Lou has gotten drunk with power both literally and metaphorically. Lou’s heinous behavior leads someone to shot him in the groin at a party forcing the gang to try to find his assassin with the help of their hot tub time machine. However, they end up in the year 2025 and have to try to find the mysterious killer before he travels back in time.
I don’t need to see into the future to know that every review for this film is going to have a line somewhere about going back in time to avoid this film from being made. With the snow coming down day after day, a hot tub seems like a great treat. That is, as long as it’s one at a perfect temperature and you don’t want to get out of. If Hot Tub Time Machine 2 was an actual hot tub, it would be the one that hasn’t been cleaned properly with a lot of bacteria residing inside. The kind of hot tub that you would be better off avoiding.
Overall Grade: D