Movie: Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
After watching the zombie movie, Deadgirl, I thought to change gears and put in a little more light.
I did return to writing my software, so some of the details are hazy. The basic premise is some older dudes try to get some bonding time together by returning to the resort where they once had a riotous time. They party hardy, and get into their recently fixed hotel room hot tub for some bonding time. Someone spills an illegal Russian energy drink, which causes a time vortex to bring them back to 1986.
After a brief, but confusing series of events, they determine they're not transported in time as their old-selves, but are transported into their younger-selves; except for the twenty-something nephew, who is himself and who flickers out of reality from time to time.
Struck with the dichotomy of not disturbing the time continuum and righting some wrongs, they set out to do as little damage as possible in hopes of returning to the future they know, even if they don't love it. After all, they don't want to return and find Hitler is president or something...one of them says.
The movie bounced between a bad spin on Back to the Future (save the flickering kid by not changing the future) and a poor T&A, ala Porky's (take advantage of the young girls while you're young fellas again), mixed in with a bit of buddy film bonding, like way too many to count.
There are lots of future references that are lost on the unknowing people from the past, and a bit of making fun of the way things were, and how dumb we were then (if we were in our 20s at the time). There were a few too many "I know what I have to do but don't want to do it" moments. There were also a lot of moments trying to guess when the bellhop would loose his arm; we see him without one when they arrive at the hotel in the future, earlier in the film.
I think the film got a little lost in its own potential. There was an awful lot of attempting to cover everything, when it would have probably been better to focus on the time travel, or the buddy film, or the T&A. A good chuckle, and a useful recovery from the disturbing zombie movie.