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Massawyrm gets hot and wet for the HOT TUB TIME MACHINE!!
Hola all. Massawyrm here.
Here’s a thought that will fester for all of you folks out there slowly aging as you read this: recently a friend noted that if Universal greenlit and released a remake of BACK TO THE FUTURE today and Marty McFly traveled back the same amount of time as in the original, he would land smack dab in the middle of 1980. Let that sink in for a moment. That’s how BACK TO THE FUTURE looked to our parents. Well, instead of 1980, the HOT TUB TIME MACHINE only manages its way back to 1986, but it is close enough. It still will look entirely alien to the younger set, if not still somewhat to those of us who lived through that era.
First things first, HOT TUB TIME MACHINE is fucking fall out of your chair hilarious. It’s a gut-laugh comedy, loaded with a number of uproarious sequences and gags that always hit their mark and never wear out their welcome. But more importantly, while it is dressed up in the trappings of a mainstream come-as-dumb-as-you-are comedy, it is in fact a geek movie. That’s right. A geek movie. Everything you love about time travel movies comes into play here in HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, and none of it is in your face, overly explained bullshit either. Instead the film is smart, sharp and unrepentantly irreverent.
When one of three lifelong friends almost gets himself killed and is mistaken for a suicide attempt, his buddies try to cheer him up with a weekend at the ski resort that was the site of one of the best weekends of their lives. But when they arrive, the resort is a ghost town – boarded up and as shitty as they come. With nothing to do, they chill in their hot tub, getting mindlessly drunk and wake up in 1986, none other than the very same great weekend they were trying to relive. Enter every major time travel plot, loophole and discussion you’ve ever seen, wonderfully woven together with some ridiculously over the top bits that very subtly riff on the time travel classics.
What makes this movie rock so fucking hard is that director Steve Pink has assembled a killer group of brilliant comedians, most of whom are always relegated to supporting player status. Using John Cusack as the lovable anchor, Pink brings the background guys into the foreground and lets them do what they do best. Rob Corddry plays the asshole buddy who never left the 80’s – the guy that grew up dreaming about being AWESOME every day, but never knowing what that meant exactly. For the first time, someone has found a pitch perfect use for Corddry’s comedy, allowing him to be hilariously repulsive while still likable enough to keep rooting for him. Craig Robinson does what he does best, just this time he gets to do it as one of the film’s stars – and he kills doing it, so much so that all is forgiven for that whole MISS MARCH thing last year. Yes, even the ball/straw gag he was involved with. Forgiven.
Rounding out the cast is a guy named Clark Duke, who you might not know yet, but are about to in a BIG way. Up until now he’s been a supporting character on the ABC Family show GREEK and played the geeky love machine in the tragically overlooked teen sex comedy SEX DRIVE. Here he plays Cusack’s young nephew caught up in the whole Time Machine debacle, mysteriously placing him 9 months before his actual birth. Without missing a step, he keeps up with everyone he’s surrounded by, once again getting a lot of big laughs on his own. (You’ll be seeing him again a few short weeks later as the comic relief in a little film named KICK ASS, where he also hits all the right notes.)
Backing them up are small bit parts filled with some pretty funny people. The role of the “magical janitor” is played by Chevy Chase who gives a performance that turns the whole cliche on its ear as he tries desperately to seem all mystical and shit only to be completely unintelligible and baffling. It’s the type of brilliant turn you’d expect out of a pro like Chase. But the guy with the best gag in the whole movie is Crispin Glover, whose running joke is so fucking good I will punch in the face anyone who spoils it for another human being, before I kick them square in the nuts and ask what the fuck is wrong with them. THAT’S how good this gag fucking is. I will beat a person.
The film is an incredibly good time and a powerful second effort by long time screenwriter turned director Steve Pink. After writing such gems as GROSSE POINT BLANK and HIGH FIDELITY, he got his shot at directing a very funny, but sadly (also) overlooked teen comedy by the name of ACCEPTED. This made my Best/Worst of 2006 list in the category of “Favorite movie that won’t appear on anyone else’s top 10 list”. A great “comfort movie”, this brought together a group of relative unknowns like Justin Long (who was still struggling at the time to break away from the whole Mac Kid thing), Jonah Hill and Blake Lively – but also turned loose a rabid Lewis Black to chew up the scenery and rant and rave in all the ways we love watching Lewis Black rant and rave. Pink showed he had an eye for talent and knew how to let comedians BE comedians.
Here he perfects that art and takes this to the next level. While I love ACCEPTED, it is a smaller gem for those that love that particular brand of vodka. HOT TUB TIME MACHINE has all the makings of a comedy classic. Yes the premise is ridiculous; but it *knows* that it is ridiculous. The moment Craig Robinson says “It must be some kind of Hot Tub Time Machine” then looks directly into the camera, breaking the fourth wall, you know *exactly* what is going on. You know it is silly, they know it is silly, and fuck it, let’s go for it, right? Well they go for it, and every moment works.
There is nothing about this film I didn’t like, not one moment where a joke failed or they felt like they were reaching. Everything just worked. This isn’t ACCEPTED or SEX DRIVE funny. This is OLD SCHOOL funny; this is TROPIC THUNDER and THE HANGOVER funny. You knew by looking at this that it could go one way or the other. Guess what? It went the way you were hoping. Run, don’t walk, to the nearest theater showing this when it sees release next month. And take friends. Lots of them.
Until next time friends, smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.
Massawyrm
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Feb 16, 2010 7:23:22 AM CST
So the trailers are not just showing the best parts then?
by judge_dredd
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Feb 16, 2010 7:24:06 AM CST
Shia as Marty, Walken as Doc Brown, Seth Rogan as the Dad, and J
by sequitur
Directed by Adam Shankman....BAM HIT!!! ::cough::
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First off, there wasnt a single laugh to be had in the preview. Literally, I heard not even a single chuckle in the theater. Second, getting a big bunch of dudes to supposedly climb into a hot tub together without a single chick anywhere in sight....let's just say I havent seen that one before. Third, neither Tropic Thunder nor Hangover were particularly hilarious, so holding those up as the comic holy grail merely shows that you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Have a nice day.
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A rare thing just happened. A movie review kind of persuaded me. We're all just floating...
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...damn, I'm glad to hear it. Good news for a change.
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Feb 16, 2010 7:38:15 AM CST
ALL HAIL JESSICA PARE'S TITS!!!HAIL!!!HAIL!!!HAIL!!!
by tehcreepythinman
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Feb 16, 2010 7:41:36 AM CST
I'D LOVE TO GO BACK TO 42ND STREET NEW YORK CIRCA 1980!!!
by tehcreepythinman
"A beautiful vision of Hell" as Josh Alan Friedman put it.
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But Justin Long wasn't doing those Mac commercials when Accepted came out, those came afterwards.
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Funny movie for dumb people. But I definitely laughed when Alan flubbed part of his rooftop toast, that was good.
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Feb 16, 2010 7:51:35 AM CST
Massawyrm, HOW DOES IT COMPARE TO THE PARTY ANIMAL, BACHELOR PAR
by tehcreepythinman
Porky's or Revenge of the Nerds because 80's sex comedies can't be beat!!!FACT!!!
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Feb 16, 2010 7:55:05 AM CST
the new transported man, HANGOVER WASN'T BAD JUST MEH.....
by tehcreepythinman
I seriously don't understand how that made 277 million fucking dollars?!? It's a good sign of how far our society has fallen.
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Tom Jankiewicz wrote the brilliant Grosse Point Blank script. Basically everyone who had something to do with GPB came back to do High Fidelity, except for him. There is a good story behind it. I met Tom, and he told it to me. I don't know that I have license to tell it myself, but if this site is truly one of Hollywood insiders, I'd find out for yourself. But please, don't give someone else for Tom's script.
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It was worth watching, but it certainly wasn't the best comedy of the decade like everyone called it. People said the exact same thing about Superbad, and I can't imagine watching that a second time either. Jonah Hill was really annoying in that film. I liked the portions with McLovin and the cops, but it was really an overrated comedy.
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Seriously, Live Hard Sell Hard, should be a classic up there with Caddyshack. Funny fucking flick!
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I was all set to praise you for the 42nd street circa 1980 comment, but PORKY'S? It's incredibly boring, and there are what? 2 nude scenes?
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I agree that "Hangover" is completely overpraised. It is funny, thought. It taps in to the whole wild night scenario and mixes it up with a comically skewed Memento which is awesome. However, I DO think that Superbad might be the best comedy of the decade. I love Anchorman and I thought that In the Loop was hysterical, but Superbad will be as well-remembered as one of the most awesome comedies and coming-of-age tales of the decade.
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Um...I think YOU need a time machine, my friend. Not only was he doing them at the time, he was doing them enough that it is how I referred to him in my initial ACCEPTED review, written before the film's release.
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I'm in. Even though I didn't really get all the love for the Hangover personally. Didn't really laugh out loud all that much...just entertained.
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but I ain't seeing fall-outter-yer-chair funny in the previews. Still, it has Cusack. I shall dutifully see it.
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Feb 16, 2010 8:13:04 AM CST
hst666, WE'LL JUST HAVE TO AGREE TO DISAGREE OVER PORKY'S.....
by tehcreepythinman
But my time travel dream would be to go back in time to New York to see a 42nd Street grindhouse double bill of Maniac and Zombie before nailing some hot and slutty hooker dressed as a cheerleader. A man can dream can't he?
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You're right, it wasn't bad, I guess what's bad is that everybody thought it was the funniest shit they'd ever seen & it made $277 MM. Plus Bradley Cooper makes me want to turn off my TV.
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That Mac campaign started in 2006, & Accepted came out in 08/06, apparently. I just figured Accepted was made in 2005, pre-Mac campaign. Why do I even care? I don't even own a Mac. *shrug*
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...Apatow's new Nerd Pack in a comedy. I am so sick of those guys... ENOUGH with them, already. Except Paul Rudd. Let's keep him. He's funny AND not a schlub.
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Any relation to ScaryWaitress?
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I too wish to know if you have any relation to ScaryWaitress. Mainly because I want to know if you are willing to put on a pair of granny glasses and comfortable shoes for my entertainment.
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Other then Downey and the Simple Jack part it was a Night at the Museum.
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I hated that over rated piece of garbage, not a single funny moment.
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...this was written by the Grosse Point Blank dude.sold.
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Just my warmer, fuzzier alter-ego... and yes, my penchant for thigh-high Granny boots and fishnets remains...
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I'm not trying to piss you guys off, but what was it about that movie that you didn't find hilarious. Just curious here, because that is next to Pineapple Express as the movie I am most likely to watch with friends and I don't get the criticism.
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TehCreepyThinMan, are you talking about the shitty William Shatner serial killer movie? If so, AWESOME!!!
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Anna Faris or Kristen Bell or some other hottie attached to this at one point?
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Comedy has sucked it hard since- well, a long time. The last movie I actually laughed out loud at was Role Models... before that, no shit, I think Christmas Vacation. (I love me some Chevy.) What happened to the days of smart, actually funny comedy? Animal House? M*A*S*H? (the movie, not the Baby Boomer friendly TV nonsense) Even Beverly Hills Cop? Look, the 80's sexed-up comedies have their place, I guess, but they're pretty devoid of brains. Same with Police Academy. The 80's teen comedies were actually GOOD MOVIES (and, of course, why Cusack has a following of fools like me) but were they laugh-out-loud funny? Eh. Adult comedy, for thinking grown-ups, has been gone for a long time. Here's hoping we get even a glimmer of those forgotten days in Hot Tubs. Amen.
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I love his work in the Office
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...Cruise got the only big laugh out of me.
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Is it as funny as Better Off Dead or One Crazy Summer? I love those savage movies!
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I dreamt I was studying for a huge Physics final (probably because I watched Real Genius last night, one of the greatest movies of all time) and this massive physics textbook was full of photos of Chevy Chase doing physics experiments in wacky scientist costumes and making weird faces.
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are the two most overrated and underwhelming words ever.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
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...is the right word for the job.
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Hot Shots! has a better hit/miss ratio than Hangover, Tropic Thunder, etc. And Hangover ruined Ed Helms for me. His schtick on The Office is tired, it was better when he was repping Cornell & managing his frothing anger.
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1. I have not seen The Hangover yet... but the trailers looked abysmal. 2. I DESPISE Jonah Hill. He's not funny, and he's not pleasant to look at... and NO, he doesn't overcome that by being funny, BECAUSE HE'S NOT FUNNY. 3. McLovin' worked really well... as MCLOVIN'. When you put him in every movie, it wears thin. EXTREMELY thin. OVERCASTING GETS OLD.
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This sounds like another AICN jerk--movie. Something that's extremely mediocre but gets praised like it's the second coming. The trailer has maybe one funny line. I really do hope this is as good as this review makes it out to be, but since he compared it Tropic Thunder, one of the most overrated, disappointing comedies of the decade, I have my doubts. TT could have been GREAT, instead it was so-so.
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Feb 16, 2010 8:55:05 AM CST
lotharius3rd1118, NO WAY!!! THE WILLIAM LUSTIG/JOE SPINELL CLASS
by tehcreepythinman
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...was a reminder of the AICN hype machine.
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I hated the Hangover, and have cringed at every single commercial I've seen for Hot Tub. It's an abjectly stupid premise, and I outgrew referential 80's jokes after the Wedding Singer. Have fun with your dumbed-down drunk jokes America. After Hangover and Zombieland I'm starting to avoid the comedies everyone else likes like the plague.
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Feb 16, 2010 8:57:48 AM CST
CRUISE WAS THE BEST THING ABOUT TROPIC THUNDER!!!FACT!!!
by tehcreepythinman
I want a Mission Impossible movie with that character.
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. . . Kevin Smith being booted from his Southwest Airlines flight for being too damn fat? Try a cattle-car you friggin' freak.
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.. I can only watch once. Basically anything with [IMPROV HERE] in the script. It's not even that I havea problem with improv per se... it's just that not everyone is Robin Williams or Jim Carrey. Most of the people in the Apatow movies think "random and idiotic" equals "funny improvisation".
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If you don't think Hangover/Old School/Tropic Thunder were funny, I feel sorry for you and your need to hate everything in life.
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Exactamundo. Yet another thing that irritated me about Hangover. Ed Helms' improv is not funny. Apatow improv can be funny, but they shoot each scene like 20 times.
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I "finally" saw Zombieland. Really didn't care for it that much. I mean it was okay, but once they did the bit with Bill Murray, and the whole "when people smoke weed they dance around and act shit out and stuff" routine it kinda lost me. By the final scene, with two most inconsistently intelligent/dumb characters in cinema, and the most gratuitous and tedious use of slow motion from the 2000s, I couldn't even focus on the movie.
Just compare it to Shaun of the Dead which still cracks me up after a half-dozen viewings.
I won't go so far as to say cinema is makign some kind of descent. That'd be a solipsistic take on things and a denial of history. I'm just becoming an older, more experienced, and my taste is changing.
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Cruise in Tropic Thunder was a way too built up let down. Matthew McConaughey, on the other hand, was the bomb in that movie. Only one, outside of Downey Jr., who impressed me at all. DAMN that movie was a fantastic idea done wrong.
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From the first time I heard the insane movie title I was curious. The I heard of the cast and I was interested. Then I saw the trailer and I was IN baby! Can NOT wait til March!!
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but glad to see a positive review.
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Jeremy Piven was okay in it. Everyone else was forgettable.
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I agree with Judge Dredd and Waitress, the preview trailer for this movie was extremely weak. Compare it with the trailer for BLACK DYNAMITE that had me chuckling the whole way through and showing all my buddies.
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"One man's meat... is another man's poison" Better clarify - wouldn't want that last comment to be misconstrued!!
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...any other movie in the last ten years. Eternally re-watchable.
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It has long been decreed that all comedy made since 2004 has been shit.
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Again, this was not written by the guy who wrote Grosse Point Blank. Tom Jankiewicz wrote Grosse Point Blank. Massy really needs to fix the article.
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Feb 16, 2010 9:35:55 AM CST
Does this movie have actual nudity, or is it just a big tease?
by royston lodge
I'm still bitter over those two giant cock-teases, Eurotrip and The Girl Next Door. Fucking "unrated" scam artists...
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Balls. I already had the glover gag ruined for me. Actually I think it was on an early review on this here site... Bugger, bugger, bugger.
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was flat flat flat, just didn't find anything to laugh at - and I was absolutely hyped for it, too.
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Even if it's just repeated, blown up large on the big screen, it won't be a disappointment in that regard.
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It.. doesn't look that funny. But you know... Cusack...
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w/ Dee Wallace, C Thomas Howell, Kelly Preston, and Fred Ward. In my opinion one of my all time favorite 80's comedies.
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No one ever knew what the C in C Thomas Howell stood for.
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It's funny you mention Better Off Dead, seeing as John Cusack was in a 1986 ski town in that movie. All they need now is to meet up with Charles LaMarche and his snow-cocaine scheme.
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...of guy on the ground
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I didn't get the impression that they were dancing around and acting shit out because they were high. I mean, it's the end of the world. There's only a handful of actual people left, and one of them is Bill Murray. Not only that, but he's REALLY COOL. He lets you stay in his house and smoke his stuff. I think I'd be dancing and re-enacting Ghostbusters completely sober *LOL*
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Feb 16, 2010 11:14:14 AM CST
There's a ridiculous amount of movies I want to see this year
by soylentmean
and this is one of them. I was on the fence until I saw the red band trailer. And Sex Drive was a fuckin' hilarious movie. I'll have to rent Accepted. Sometimes it's good to laugh.
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Feb 16, 2010 11:16:00 AM CST
"I could be off here, but I think it's in reference to blowing a
by rectalblowout
LOL!
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Good.
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I saw the movie yesterday. Definitely raunchy and gross out humor, in a good way. I don't get the bear though. It seemed to be a marketing gimmick added to the movie as an afterthought.
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The movie is really funny. Hilarious laugh out loud in parts. But this review is way over hyping it. Comparing it to a modern classic comedy such as Old School is a disservice. One thing that cannot be said enough -- Rob Corddry will never be an unknown again. Every second he's onscreen he'll having you crying laughing. I guarantee you that. And Crispin Glover is PERFECT.
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I would like to clarify that although the concept is cool, I thought the Bill Murray scenes from Zombieland were the least funny of the whole movie.
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I think it should become traditional when reviewing comedies to list what other comedies you liked in the past. There are too many "love it or hate it" comedies out there now (I'm looking squarely at you, Apatow) and it would be nice to know which camp the reviewer is coming from. Although I'm a little torn here because I liked Tropic Thunder a little but didn't like the Hangover.
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i've yet to see a comedy that "everyone" said was hilarious actually be more than okay. the way to judge them is yourself, if you think it looks good then go see it but dont see it because everyone else said you should. doing that almost guarantees it wont be that good, unless you're a lemming i guess.
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TehCreepyThinMan: "SO!!!!YOU'RE MARRIED!!!!FACT!!!!!"
Summer: "Yeah. Crazy, huh?"
TehCreepyThinMan: "I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!!!IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!!!!FACT!!!!!"
Summer: "I just woke up one day and I knew ..."
TehCreepyThinMan: "KNEW WHAT?!?!?!"
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Comparing a movie YOU LOVE to The Hangover is a disservice. The Hangover had it's moments but I doubt it'll be regarded as a classic in 20 years (although what the fuck do I know)... I want to see this because Tom Jankiewicz's two John Cusack films ARE classics.
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A great example of how good comedy need not be crude and obnoxious. Judd Apatow and the rest of Hollywood take note.
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Just playing around ...
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...because this site relentlessly overhyped SEX DRIVE. ("A fantastic original comedy!" - Hyperbole Knowles) I think HTTM is going to be hilarious but seriously, "not one moment where a joke failed"? Riiiiight.
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Feb 16, 2010 12:29:23 PM CST
This is from the same guy who thought Capolla's Dracula was a fa
by stalkeye
*PFFT*
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During the "pretend to be tased, EVERYBODY IMPROVISE scene".
The Mike Tyson stuff was all painfully unfunny as well. ANOTHER aspect of modern film comedy that I just don't get.. place something on screen that the audience recognizes. The audience laughs. I just don't fucking get it. -
OMG! This is hilarious...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLAyo1wE4Vo
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Watch "In the Loop"
and get back to me.
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shit, piss, fart and pussy jokes.. yippie.
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Let it begin!
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Massa, Dude, Where's My Car *knew* it was ridiculous and yet it still sucked. There's a million movies that play the tongue in cheek game. Oh, and breaking the fourth wall was old when Bertolt Brecht did it.
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I found the whole idea of a weird looking fat kid being the school stud pretty funny and unique.
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...cynical, insulting and sarcastic in response to a movie review. I remember when people actually read reviews to get an idea what the movie was about and help decide whether or not you wanted to plunk down your hard earned cash to see it. Now it seems like people read them so they can tell the reviewer how wrong they are, even though the person commenting hasn't even seen the movie yet. Genius! Anyway, I decided I was going to see this one after the last trailer. Glad to hear it doesn't disappoint, though.
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I was hooked when I saw the first trailer. So glad that Massy has confirmed what I knew to be true.
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thanks for the Lynch Meets Lucas link. That was awesome!
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...Hangover, not so much...maybe it was due to the commercials showin everything and AICN reviews of course (which is my fault for bein impatient)...but if Hot Tub is good as Sex Drive or Anchorman, GREAT!...FYI, Anchorman was prob the stupidest, greatest comedy in the past decade...only thing better is 40 Year Old Virgin, but that is a whole different type of greatness (its more of a dramedy to me, whereas Anchorman was just utter crazyfuckery)
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You obviously have no sense of humor what so ever....I feel sad for you.
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Just so you know...Hot Tub was in production, if not even further along before The Hangover hit theaters. How can people seem to enjoy movies and comment on them while having absolutely NO CLUE how the process of making movies even works?
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...so Craig can get his own movie...it would technically be a black version of all these Apatow/Rogen comedies but it would be nice to see it in a different world... he could be our new Eddie Murphy! or at least a new Sinbad...
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aaaahaahaahahaahaa!! (in a good way!)
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...Sinbad got a hourlong special on comedy central this sunday...the greatest news ever!
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Maybe my sense of humor just varies (shrugs). Old School? Awesomely funny. Borat? hilarious (the first time, all laughs immediately cease and desist upon a 2nd viewing). Anchorman? Hilarious. 40 Year Old Virgin? Endlessly quotable and has actually come full circle to being underrated. Superbad, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder? All AICN overhype victims with maybe as many laughs combined as any 10 minute section of Airplane (the funniest movie ever made). Hangover? 20 minutes of a solidly funny movie (the 1st 20), right up until the toast on top of the hotel. Everything after that? Terminally unfunny, climaxed by the 10 minute Tyson sequence through the Helms tiger song, the biggest comedy black hole of the past 25 years, from which no laughs can escape. Hmmmm what else.....anything involving Creed on The Office or Jenna on 30 Rock? Comedy gold. Spaced? Gold. Ted Danson on Bored To Death? Solid gold 24 karat plated gold. Hot Tub Time Machine? Hmmm.......not so much. So there ya have it, Goose's sense of humor, let the flaming begin.
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Couldnt agree more, is Tyson being in a movie supposed to be inherently funny, in and of itself? He didnt do or say anything particularly funny. You could hear the crickets chirping in the back of the theater every second he was onscreen, and I live in Baltimore, not exactly the highbrow comedy mecca of the East Coast.
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Hangover just came out his year. Of course I know that this was already in production. Regardless, they're marketing this as the next Hangover. And I think we can both agree that there will be many Hangover clones to come or movies marketed as such.
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The dancing Indian had my theater in stitches. I myself was guffawing well into the previews.
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As long as everyone in the Hot Tub passes out at the same time they will all be transported back to a time in the 80s when they all had the best time of their lives except for the young guy who wasn't born yet. Can anyone say Serious Plot Loophole!
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So...not amusing in the slightest?
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...most Ben Stiller movies Good ideas "...done bad".
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GUNNA GIT IN THA HOT TUH-HUUUUUUUUUB!
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Or just me?
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It's not dropping until March 26th so I'm psyched to be seeing it a full month before it comes out. Also, I had the Crispin Glover bit spoiled for me, but I don't know exactly how that'll work so I'm sure I'll still laugh.
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Feb 16, 2010 4:54:46 PM CST
Apparently, fiester doesn't read any comments but his own...
by the dolphins are in the jacuzzi
Otherwise, he would know that damn near every talkbacker on this site hates that movie; but let me be perhaps the first to say I actually DID like it, along with Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express, every Apatow-related project except Funny People, every Vince Vaughn and/or Will Ferrell movie up to and including Wedding Crashers, and any comedy done by the Coen Brothers. I don't know if that means I have wide-ranging tastes or just low standards, but there you go. Anyway, Wyrm's got me hyped to see this even though the trailer looked like shit.
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Feb 16, 2010 4:56:56 PM CST
Now I want to know what Capone and Quint think
by the dolphins are in the jacuzzi
Don't really care about Harry "Loves It!" Knowles. I think we all know his review will be something to the effect of "Harry bathes in the bubbly goodness of Hot Tub Time Machine!" whether it's any good or not.
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Feb 16, 2010 5:06:17 PM CST
And if Harry actually doesn't like it...
by the dolphins are in the jacuzzi
I'll be even more excited, as anytime he actually has the balls to go out on a limb and say he hates a movie (for anything other than political reasons), he's almost always wrong.
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..“It must be some kind of Hot Tub Time Machine” then looks directly into the camera, breaking the fourth wall, you know *exactly* what is going on» SOLD!
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I found all of the comedies listed by people in this talkback to be funny, but never as "classic" as others do. However, I'm not a comedy movie lover and I never have been. That being said, I laughed more than I usually do at Anchorman, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder and The Hangover. Considering I can sit through an entire comedy where a group of people are cracking up and never laugh once, the fact that all of those movies made me laugh several times (or more) must mean they're some kind of funny.
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Feb 16, 2010 8:05:36 PM CST
I'll watch it if it's on Netflix streaming.
by hercthinksentourageisbetterthanarrestedd
I like the cast, but I'm not too crazy about the "suddenly crude" approach to comedy. I love me some crude comedy. But more often than not, it's a lazy crutch. Swear words don't make something funny. It's how they're used.
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and I'm not really huge on modern comedies, but I dunno, I got a feeling about this one. Hopefully it will be good.
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to be honest. But I do have high hopes for this movie.
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...smells like a rhododendron.
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handed to him by the Massa of da Wyrms. We're all just floating BLOOP! WOP! YEEP! WE'RE ALL JUST FLOATING HOOP! MEEP! BLAAP!
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Wow, dude, don't bother being pretentious for no reason. The MASH movie is great and the TV series is also great for entirely different reasons. There's tons of room for both. Don't wait your breath downing the TV show.... If you haven't looked around lately there's 2 entire generations of kids that have never even heard of either of them.
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Couldn't agree with you more about metropcs. I work for them. God I hate that company but they pay really well. I work in customer service
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Even though i watched it without pay. That's the kind of movie one wants to get his money back even if they watched it for free. And really, John Cusack! How could you?
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That is all.
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LOVE the idea! Gues I'll be getting a seat! Heh, I certainly remember 1986...two years after High School, and in a podunk state college!
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Feb 17, 2010 3:22:39 AM CST
I'm cautious about what Massa calls smart and intelligent
by asimovlives
This is the same guy who complained about NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN not being conventional enough, least we forget.
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The gay monks movie trailer and the brutal murder of a panda.
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In all my time reading reviews here at AICN and the TB's that accompany them, if it's a negative review, I always, without fail, see someone say "Oh what a shame, was looking forward to this, oh well". WTF is that nonsense? I have and always will, read reviews to get a general idea about the film. The opinion of the reviewer doesn't matter much to me. If a movie interests me, I go see it. Period. All the negative reviews in the world don't stop me from seeing something that I look forward too. The people who base their movie attendance on reviews are just dumb ass sheep who cannot think for themselves. Ok, I grant you that sometimes if the overwhelming opinion is that a movie sucks, sometimes that is correct. But not always.Even in this TB, people sitting there and saying they might not see this just because Massa thought Tropic Thunder and The Hangover were great comedies and that HTTM is just as good as those. So fucking what? He liked them, you didn't that means you shouldn't see this movie now? Give me a fucking break. I know someone is going to say "Well if he thought those movies were hilarious and I think they sucked then HTTM must suck too". Right, keep living your life by someone elses opinions. Go see HTTM and if you hate it, THEN you can come back here and say "See I was right it sucked" and your life will be fuller and richer because of that. But basing your life on the opinions of others, is just plain stupid.That being said, I also felt Tropic Thunder was extremely unfunny. RDJ had the best stuff in the movie, and that's it. It totally seperated the action and the comedy and that was one of it's biggest shortcomings. The Hangover? Thought it was quite funny, but not the classic it is being hailed as. But because I didn't love those movies like Massa did does not mean I think HTTM is gonna suck. Are the sheep out there listening to me??? Form your own opinions. Seems like individuality is becoming more and more scarce these days and that's a shame.
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Tropic Thunder was m'enh... watchable, but FAR from the comedic tour-de-force it is made out to be. And The Hangover? Cute - but again, not gut-splittingly hilarious. I can't actually remember a movie making me laugh - really laugh - out loud in a while. Actually (and here comes the backlash) Joe Dirt in 2 scenes had me laughing out loud - buddy turning to ash and the septic tank spewing poo. I miss the Porky's days :-(
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I think it was The Nutty Professor, how sad is that...14 years ago. Other movies have made me laugh since then, but the first time i saw TNP I laughed out loud many many times, whereas most movies since then its been a few belly laughs, but not constant like at times in TNP.
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I think the point is that if we get to know a reviewer well enough, we know what to espect from the movie that's reviewed by him/her/it. Say you disagree with everything that Massa ever said until now. Therefore, if he gives a positive review, your opinion will be "movie must be shit". Or if you happen to agree with everything he says, then you reckon "movie must be good, i'll liek it". The way i see it, reviewers are important in the way that, when we get to know them and if we agree or not with them, we can have an idea what to expect, and thus, save us an unnecessary trip to the cinema to watch a bad movie that will make u8s lament the expenditude of money. And in this days and times of extreme economic crisis, it's important to save us our money on useless things we will lament afterwards.
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I guess i have been a bit more lucky about comedies, which would be ironic if you did knew me better. But the movies that made me laugh the most were THE BIG LEBOWSKI and FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. However i had seen some more recent comedies that really worked for me. They are THE TASTE OF OTHERS (french movie), BURN AFTER READING, AMELIE and THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS. PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER also had great moments of dark humour. I also found STARSHIP TROOPS hillarious, a movie that got even funnier because of how accurate and prescient it was about the Bush Administration and their idiotic warmongering ways, the movie was damn prophetic. Also, the latest PETER PAN movie, i found it very funny, i was constantly laughing at what was happening on screen, because it really was damn funny in presentation. But i have to say, comedy is not really my prefered genre, in that, there's pretty few of them who actually deliver.
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I guess my opinion stems from the fact that I have not found a critic that I can connect with, one that shares my opinions and taste in movies. Not one has even really come close. Cannot really go by me anyways, because I find the majority of mainstream critics to be utterly useless in every way. Guys like Massa, Capone, and guys on other sites I have a bit more respect for them because they seem to really love film more than the mainstream guys, but still have not found one that I can identify with. Even if I did find a critic that had similar tastes as myself,I still would not base my choice of movies on their word. In the end, no matter what, I like to form my own opinion. The only way for me to do that is to see the movie myself and not rely on the opinions of others despite how similar our tastes may be, but that's just me.BTW, started to watch Moon the other day, but my DVD player decided it didn't want to play nice so I was not able to finish watching it, but what I did see, I liked very much. Will make an attempt this weekend to finish it.
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"What in the fuck is a Chinese downhill?"
That movie was a huge favourite at my elementary school, along with SKI SCHOOL and SKI PATROL. Hell, we even liked ASPEN EXTREME. -
you just can't please 'em.
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