Hot Tub Time Machine

Hot Tub Time Machine. It's as simple as that.
Directed by Steve Pink (Accepted) with a screenplay by Sean Anders (She's Out Of My League) and first time writer Josh Heald, HTTM is the new Back To The Future.
Adam (John Cusack - 2012), Nick (Craig Robinson - The Office US version) and Lou (Rob Corddry - Operation Endgame) are three guys who used to be best friends at school but grew apart. Life happened. Adam's girlfriend has left him and taken the TV; Nick's singing career didn't take off and now works for 'Sup Dawg,' a dog grooming salon; and nothing seems to be going right for Lou a.k.a Violator. One night while rocking out to a song on his car radio in a closed garage with the car still running, Lou ends up in hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning. Adam and Nick are charged to look after him for a few days while he gets better. They plan a trip to the Kodiak Ski Resort where they went twenty years ago to hang out and reminisce about old times.
Adam's 'Second Life' obsessed nephew Jacob (Clark Duke - Kick Ass) comes along for the ride. Jacob's mother has just moved in with her new boyfriend and he's been living in Adam's basement ever since.
A lot can change in twenty years. The hotel looks like crap and smells like cat piss. Phil the bell boy, a one armed Crispin Glover (Back To The Future), is pretty shit at his job.
That night, the drinks flow and the guys get in the hot tub. A can of Chernobyl (Russia's answer to Red Bull) spills into the electronics. One thing I was never taught in school is that this is exactly what you need to go back in time.
It's Winterfest '86 at the ski lodge. The ski slopes are lit up with hot pink leg warmers and fluoro tights. Miami Vice is in and Michael Jackson is black. The guys look in the mirror and see their younger selves. In true Michael J Fox fashion, Jacob starts to flicker, his existence is in jeopardy. Jacob freaks out when he sees his mother Kelly (Collette Wolfe - 17 Again) as a slutty twenty year old.
Thanks to a diet of geekery and Star Gate and a chat with the hot tub repairman (Chevy Chase - Community) Jacob works out that they have to do everything that they did when they were first at the resort twenty years ago. Adam has to break up with his girlfriend, Nick has to have a one night stand (even though his wife is presently nine years old), Lou has to get beaten up by ski patrol douche, Blaine (Sebastian Stan - Gossip Girl).
But things end up a little different this time around. If you could go back in time would you change the future?
I had so much fun with this flick. I laughed out loud so many times it began to hurt. It's like Steve Pink has taken all the cool songs from my childhood and whacked them into a fluorescent flashback. I went for John Cusack, I stayed for Rod Corddry. I swear in the last scene I saw flashes of Jack Black. He's unstable, he's sardonic, he's absolutely hilarious.
The plot was a wee bit predictable in parts, many surrounding the identity of Jacob's dad, but apart from that, this is the funniest flick I've seen this year. I really liked how Pink filmed the past and present actors. You had Cusack, et al. on the screen the whole time and it was only when they looked in mirrors that we saw their younger selves. I definitely want to see it again and buy the soundtrack!
Things I learnt; Albert Einstein has got some 'xplaining to do; as much as I cringe at the eighties they sure make me smile; if you're going to break up with someone make sure they don't have access to kitchen utensils.
Nine out of ten. It would have gotten ten if they had the real guys from Poison \m/