I'm not a big John Cusack fan, but I did like the rest of the cast picked for the film, it was a great mixture with familiar faces. It definitely had its funny moments especially with the bellhop and the arm issue, that was really funny. It was also great having the old 80's vibes back, but I felt the film was lacking in the fun areas. If you end up going back in time, and your life sucks in the current time line, would you not try to change the past? Would that not be the main goal? Instead the majority of the film was about not changing anything and making the same pathetic mistakes over again. Where's the fun in that? Was it to show me where these guys went wrong in life and how much of loosers they were from the start? Boring. With that said it finally did pick up near the end of the film, the characters finally threw the playbook out and went for it, but it took way too long to get there. The other thing that didn't match up was putting John Cusack and Lizzy Caplan together, she out shines him one-hundred to one. He's so dull and reserved with no energy where she's like a a super hot wild child down playing her energy trying not to over shine him. I did like the overall massage of the film about friendship and all, but the comedy in the movie lacked a little.
Review of Hot Tub Time Machine
