Not even ’80s nostalgia can save ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’

Published March 26, 2010 4:00am ET



Hot Tub Time Machine” is all wet. If only it could have lived up to the promise of its goofy, reductive title and early teaser trailer. But sometimes a high-concept movie wallows so completely in lowbrow nonsense — and is so devoid of story interest and character appeal — that it can’t function even as a guilty pleasure.

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