Hot Tub Time Machine 2 movie review: time to say goodbye
Not so much a movie as a mismatched mix of dick jokes and rampant homophobia. I’m kidding: There aren’t any actual jokes here.
Hot Tub Time Machine
because time machines aren’t pink enough?
Wouldn’t it be amazing if women protagonists had the opportunity to keep jumping back in time until they could get their lives just the way they want them? Ah, but that would require a movie with a female protagonist…
question of the day: What actor could most use the Coen Brothers as a director?
There are lots of actors whom I’d love to see work with the Coens, to see how their unique and hugely entertaining talents could be amplified by the brothers’ idiosyncratic perspective — James Franco, Amy Adams, Timothy Olyphant, Colin Firth, Steve Coogan, Maria Bello, and on and on — none of them really need that boost the Coens could give them. Unlike my top five candidates for Coen-ification…
North American box office: cash of the ‘Titans’
And crap reigns supreme in general: 1. Clash of the Titans: $61.2 million (NEW) 2. Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too: $29.3 million (NEW) 3. How to Train Your Dragon: $29 million (2nd week; drops 34%) 4. The Last Song: $16 million (NEW) 5. Alice in Wonderland: $8.2 million actual numbers, not estimates … more…
North American box office: ‘Dragon’ flies high…
…but not as high as it might have: 1. How to Train Your Dragon: $43.7 million (NEW) 2. Alice in Wonderland: $17.7 million (4th week; drops 48%) 3. Hot Tub Time Machine: $14 million (NEW) 4. The Bounty Hunter: $12 million (2nd week; drops 42%) 5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: $10.1 million (2nd week; … more…
bias update: March 29
obsession: Canadian TV (and film) (because I’m hungry for something new and good) boyfriend: Jack Davenport in FlashForward (because he’s just basically the most perfect man ever) psyched: Matt Smith’s debut as the Doctor (though I’m dreading it a little, too, like I haven’t since Tom Baker regenerated into Peter Davison… and I was already … more…
retro trailer: ‘Back to the Future’
Take a look back at an old trailer… Hot Tub Time Machine has got me nostalgic for this movie… “Doctor Brown” just sounds wrong, doesn’t it? It’s Doc Brown… Interesting, too, how this trailer features actual music from the actual movie. Usually, trailers are cut so far in advance of the completion of a film … more…
Friday night fortune cookie: Corey Flood says…
“The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don’t be a guy.” (referenced in my review of Hot Tub Time Machine, but worth repeating…)
March 26: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you dropped a pocketwatch in the shower and now you’re stuck in 1857. But you can have a multiplex-like experience in the 19th century (assuming you remembered to bring along your portable DVD player) with a collection of the right … more…
Hot Tub Time Machine (review)
A tediously familiar collection of pointlessly crude moments drunk on their own cruelty and call it a movie. They should have titled it *Tucker Max to the Future* if they wanted folks to have an accurate idea of what they were in for…
