With a Snakes On a Plane-quality title and an all-star lineup (John Cusack, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry and, yes, Chevy Chase), Hot Tub Time Machine could have been a great, bad film. But critics aren't buying this "baldfaced attempt to send The Hangover back to the future." They're not even laughing:
- "I'm all for dumb fun", says Rolling Stone's Peter Travers. "But the warmed-over Hot Tub Time Machine forgets it takes smarts to do stupid right."
- The movie "seems almost wilfully to squander every opportunity for greatness or even sort-of-goodness," writes Dana Stevens for Slate.