Once upon a time there was an actor that I could never like named John Cusack. Every movie he would star in was a huge turd in the swimming pool of summer to me. 2012 was a total piece of over rated, over computer enhanced junk. And what were the other flicks he was in? Oh, yes, one can never forget the movies High Fidelity, and Being John Malkovich. High Fidelity, being a total waste of about 90 minutes, and I could never wrap my head around the whole Malkovich wanting to be thing. What! I’m already there. Mid life, bald, and a desire to have someone else gain entry to my brain via a 13th floor office that has a ceiling height of less than 4 feet and is staffed by lesbians, one of which is my girlfriend who wants to be John Malkovich so they can screw each other. Well, maybe I’m not quite there, but you catch my drift.

Then comes along a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine, and all of the sudden, I like John Cusack. This movie also stars Clark Duke, from the movie Superbad, Craig Robinson (the token black guy), from Pineapple Express (the hit man). Ron Corddry, from Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay….

Okay, you know what? I just realized that maybe John Cusack didn’t make this movie, these other supporting guys pulled it off for him, but it works because he just happened to be there.
Anyway, again, maybe this movie talks to my generation because were all mid-lifer’s that would like to have the chance to go back in time to fix whatever it is that we didn’t know what the fuck went wrong with our lives to begin with. This is one of those feelie goodie movies, where everything works out because we all got drunk and stoned and pretty much made the same mistakes we made in the first place, but somehow just because we went back and did them all over again, our lives became better because the biggest loser of the group decided to stay behind to try and fix (get himself rich) all of the things that he could.

Damn!! Did I just give the whole movie away for those of you that have not seen it yet??

Ahh… Who gives a damn!? If you didn’t already know the ending I don’t think that I have blown it for you yet.

All I have to say is, prepare to feel good about this movie if your a dude. It is one of those mindless flicks that tend to preoccupy us with young perky breast, hot tubs, comedy, squirrels, and a bear mascot that likes to party with the guys.

The best scene is when these jokers all get into the hot tub right before they go back in time. Everything after that is just pre typed silliness that you can only figure out right before it happens.

I give it two thumbs and a jimmy up.

Your respected movie editor~Leo Bloom