Time machine buddy full#

The future, a decade hence, is no great shakes.

Cusack, the film substitutes Adam Scott playing his son, Adam Jr. In both movies, the voice of caution and common sense belongs to Lou’s nerdy son, Jacob (Clark Duke), who has become his butler. Cusack gave the first “Hot Tub” a poignant emotional core that is missing in the sequel. “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” is clever, but the absence of Adam (John Cusack), one of the original time travelers, is keenly felt.

Time machine buddy full#

That tub, which when given the right chemical infusion can open a portal to the past, is an infernal contraption that at full steamy bubble suggests a cauldron of boiling urine with an attached tornado. In the years since their trip back to 1986 - during which they encountered their younger selves, along with ex-girlfriends - Lou Dorchen (Rob Corddry), once a depressed loser, has used his foreknowledge of the future to become the chief honcho of the tech giant Lougle (think Google, relocated to New Orleans), and is nicknamed “the father of the Internet.” His best buddy and fellow time traveler Nick Webber (Craig Robinson) has also done well, forging a music career by stealing songs like Lisa Loeb’s “ Stay (I Missed You)” and making them hits for himself. Both movies are directed by Steve Pink, whose strategy is to keep the momentum so breathless that the story outpaces the mental agility of an audience with a presumed attention span of zero. The original film’s flurry of joking pop-cultural references has become a white-out blizzard of allusions.

As could have been predicted, “ Hot Tub Time Machine 2” is vastly inferior to the first “Hot Tub,” but it’s not stupid so much as desperately frantic. Who knows what the world will look like in 2025? The goofballs from the smart-dumb 2010 guy comedy “ Hot Tub Time Machine” are accidentally given an advance peek in the frenzied, chaotic sequel.