I'll be honest, I expected this movie to be horrible. I did enjoy the first Hot Tub Time Machine, but it wasn't that great. This sequel looked pretty bad from the trailers, but I won free tickets to a screening and said "why not". Well, I was pleasantly surprised by Hot Tub Time Machine 2! It was a consistent, hilarious and super well done comedy!
THE GOOD:
+ The jokes were consistent and often hilarious. Though there are a ton of gross-out gags and some jokes don't work, the majority of them do. I laughed a lot!
+ The story is super creative. The time-travel aspect brought a bunch of gags and ideas that all worked. The future is interesting as well.
+ All of the characters were decent (except one) and the acting was fine.
+ The pace is very fast and the runtime is perfect.
+ It was surprisingly well edited and had some decent cinematography.
THE BAD:
- The plot made no sense whatsoever. I understand that it's a dumb comedy, but that being said, it still bothered me.
- There were a couple of jokes that were either gross for the sake of being gross or fell flat. They weren't too common, though.
- It was very reminiscent of the first movie, almost copying it in some ways.
- Rob Corrdry's character was funny, but completely unlikeable. It was hard to care about his character when the movie wanted it to.
Overall, HTTM 2 was a huge surprise! The critics will probably demolish it and it might flop at the box office, but for a dumb comedy, it delivered! See it with your buddies on matinée!
RATING: 7.25/10.
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