Ayo! Scott's Premature Evaluation: Hot Tub Time Machine

Complex's resident film critic explains why this raunchy time-traveling comedy gives hope to men who are past their prime.

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Complex film critic Ayo! Scott can't be bothered with screenings, so he's reviewing movies based on the trailer alone.

Sadly, your best days are behind you. On the other hand, Ayo! Scott's best days are behind 22-year-old double-jointed exotic dancing twins (a.k.a. the 22 twos), and every damn day just keeps getting better. In their new comedy, John Cusack, former meth head Craig Robinson, and Rob Corddry play guys who are more like you than Ayo! Depressingly past their prime, the trio try to relive the glory days by taking their wet noodle of a young friend, played by Clark Duke, to the ski resort where they partied back in the day, y'know, before they forgot how to have fun and their dicks died of boredom.

Setting a new low in hetero sex trips, the four losers can find nothing better to do than cram their sausage party into a hot tub and get drunk. Then, because it's evident that they're too lame to even roll with it and go gay for the night, the jacuzzi transports them back to 1986, where the old guys find themselves in boys' bodies. Ayo! Yes? No, aaaayo! (It's their own boyish bodies, though, so...yeah, still pretty awkward.) And then they get to literally relive the glory days, smashing their former beat pieces and forgetting what it's like to be bald and suffer from ED. Could happen, right? OK, it's still better to be Ayo! than to be you and cling to the slight possibility that something like this could happen in real life, but really, what else have you got going for you? So gather a couple of your equally pathetic friends, prime yourselves by watching some great time-traveling movies while you get shitfaced, then strip down, pile in a hot tub, close your eyes, and see where it takes you. And if that place is really gay and uncomfortable, well then, perhaps you can transport yourself back in time before you gave a reach-around. Check out the trailer for yourself below to see what Ayo! is talking about...

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