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Tub Time Machine (2010) – S. Pink
That wasn’t exactly my 1980s (Poison,
Motley Crue) but there is enough cheesy stuff from the decade on display here
(when John Cusack et al. accidentally travel back in time in their hot tub) to
make me wonder how we lived through it.
Naturally, Cusack and his friends aren’t allowed to change anything in
the past to avoid affecting the future but they want to and this is basically
the engine that drives the plot. I think
that would be enough to create a funny movie but, no, the creative powers
behind this one had to layer on the usual unfunny crassness to try to create
laughs where laughs aren’t. Rob Coddry
is particularly grating. (There may also
be an odd conservative political undertone). But some of this still works, even
if there are tiresome bits to sit through.
I’ll admit that I’m rarely on the same wavelength with Hollywood
comedies, but hey there’s Crispin Glover and Chevy Chase and that funny feeling
of weird nostalgia now that we’re old(er).
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