#Hot tub movie movie#

The movie doesn’t try to sanitize how unpleasant these guys are. And Lou (Rob Corddry), also known as “Violator,” is doing the worst of all after ending up in the hospital for what he swears wasn’t a suicide attempt. Nick (Craig Robinson) is stuck in a dead-end dog-cleaning job with a wife who cheated on him.

The trio are all living dull and painful lives in the present. Hot Tub Time Machine is the story of three mostly unpleasant middle-aged men and one twentysomething (Clark Duke) who get drunk in a hot tub at a ski lodge and end up in 1986. John Cusak, who first made his name in the decade with hits like Sixteen Candles and Stand By Me, complains in Hot Tub that in the ‘80s, “we had like Reagan and AIDS.” “You want the truth? Well, this is it / I hate the '80s /'Cause the '80s were shit!”Ī similar sentiment runs through Steve Pink’s movie from the same year, Hot Tub Time Machine. “What do you know? You weren't there / It wasn't all / Duran-Duran, Duran-Duran,” The Vaselines tell their presumably younger listeners. In 2010, cult rock group The Vaselines, who released their first album in 1989, finally released a second one which included the song “I Hate The Eighties,” titled after the VH1 series that helped bring the decade back to the popular imagination. The ‘80s have broken the unofficial rule of 20-year nostalgia cycles, with movies like Top Gun: Maverickand shows like Cobra Kaitrading strongly on memories of mullets, Sixteen Candles, and morning in America.īut not everybody has gotten on board. The decade lay dormant for a few years after Nirvana beat all the hair metal guys at their own game, but once it returned, it never went away. Even after the ball dropped on December 31, 1989, the ‘80s never really ended.