Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)

Genre: Comedy

Directed by: Steve Pink

Cast: Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Adam Scott

Running time: 99 minutes

Lou Dorchen and Nick Webber have both benefited from their trip back in time to build successful careers and become rich and famous. When Lou gets shot in the groin during a party, Nick and Lou’s son, Jacob, bring the victim back to the hot tub to go back in time and stop the killer. But, instead of ending up in the past, they go to the future of an alternate universe, where the mystery shooter is.

The premise of this sequel is even sillier than the one of the original. They really worked hard, trying to make another soup from the leftovers of the first film, but they should not have bothered. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is fully focused on the humor, at the expense of the story and of common sense. The problem is that, with a few exceptions, the jokes are not that funny. It is no wonder really that John Cusack stayed away from this one.

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