Time Warp
‘HOT TUB TIME MACHINE’ TRAILER REVIEW BY METRO CREW
In Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), four friends go back in time and relive a weekend during their teenage years, allowing them to enjoy much happier middle-aged years their second time around. But as we know from every time travel movie ever, that space-time continuum is tricky, and in Hot Tub Time Machine 2, they have to travel through various decades to fix a new set of problems. But we’re wondering what happened to John Cusack and Lizzy Caplan, who shared a meet-cute storyline in the first Hot Tub. It looks like they’ve filled that Cu-sack-shaped hole with Adam Scott, though, so that could be promising. Maybe because the plot looks so ridiculous, we ended up talking about other ridiculous things, like Keanu Reeves. The best thing to come out of watching this trailer? It made us remember that Sad Keanu is a thing: knowyourmeme.com/memes/keanuis-sad-sad-keanu. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 opens in wide release Feb. 20. >>
JAIMIE: Wait, what is the premise of this movie?
CHRISTINA: In the first one, they find a hot tub time machine, and they go back to the 1980s when they were teenagers and relive this one weekend.
NICOLE: And then they used their knowledge of what was happening in the future to alter their past. So now in present day, they are rich and successful. And now they go into the future, and I am assuming they mess something up.
CHRISTINA: Where did John Cusack go? He was in the first one.
JAIMIE: Why would John Cusack have been in the first one?
CHRISTINA: I don’t know, but it was kind of awesome. He was the main guy. Adam Scott is kind of similar, I guess.
JAMES: I am over sequels, though. I mean, come on, how many times have we seen this premise?
PAIGE: That they all go into a hot tub time machine and try to change things?
JAMES: Well, swap out the hot tub with a DeLorean.
JAIMIE: I’d rather watch the DeLorean.
JAMES: Or the phone booth from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure — same thing.
PAIGE: They are making a third one. Keanu is coming back.
JAIMIE: What? They’d be so old now. Keanu Reeves looks old.
CHRISTINA: Really? I think he looks pretty good — he’s got to be about 50 …
NICOLE: He looks a little more gaunt.
PAIGE: It’s because he’s sad, sitting on his bench, eating his cupcakes. Am I the only one who saw that meme? But is it possible to make a unique time travel movie at this point?
NICOLE: Yeah, they added a hot tub.
JAMES: I saw one, Primer, where they only travel back in time for a few hours, but it messes everything up for them.
CHRISTINA: I just feel like this movie needs to have John Cusack. He was the best part of the first one.
NICOLE: I think this is going to be one of those movies like Zoolander — where you’re going to hate it when you watch it in theaters, but for some reason you are going to watch it again and you are going to love it.
JAMES: To enjoy it, you have to be a captive audience basically. If you paid money to go see it, you probably wouldn’t be too happy. But if you were locked in a room, strapped to a bed of nails …
NICOLE: It looks like it is going to have some pretty good one-liners.
PAIGE: But are there any comedy sequels that are better than their original?
NICOLE: I thought Anchor-man 2 was hilarious. And I thought Dumb and Dumber To was funnier than the first one. I am going to watch
