Screw Hangover. This one’s got Booze, a Hot Tub, and is set on the 80′s! It’s definitely a blast from the past, out of this time experience! You’ll laugh out loud at this crazy set of 4 friends who, after the best Hot Tub experience of their lives were unknowingly transported to the 80′s!

Don’t get me wrong, I loved Hangover and it was a laugh out loud experience, kudos to this film for being the pioneer of this drunken road trip madness. Although story and depth wise, I think Hot Tub wins over Rufalin. The guys at Hangover just got an overdose of Rufalin and not remember anything, while these guys had an overdose of Hot Tub and got stuck with a moral dilemma, to change or not to change, that is the question. In Hangover, we investigate with them and try to find out what happened along the way, while in Hot Tub, we see first hand the madness unfolding before our very eyes.

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They didn’t even realize until after they went snowboarding and saw that all the people are dressed funky and Michael Jackson was still black! The trip was just supposed to be about trying to cheer their insane suicidal friend up, but what they got instead was an experience they will never forget, or could not even if they tried because it was part of their past now. What started as a mundane trip to a place that they were in 20 years ago literally became the place they remembered 20 years ago, a rocking young party with booze, party people, and music! And all they needed was an awesome Hot Tub sensation and some Booze with a special ingredient called Nitroglyciride.

So they were back in the 80′s. Ah, the 80′s. A time when colourful blouses were rad, the internet was not yet born, and cellular phones were super big and expensive. You might think ‘OMG get me outta here’, but not all of these guys. Well yeah, maybe at first, but then at some point you gotta go with the flow ya know? And it is actually nice to be young and in control of your destiny for a change.

The weird part was that it was the exact same time they remembered going there 20 years ago; that they thought they might even run to their former selves. What they didn’t know was that they WERE their former selves, and they could prove so when they look in a mirror, they all look fresh into college. Only the kid looked normal, but he was fading because he was not even supposed to exist yet. They did not actually travel physically but just got back at their old bodies in the previous time, with the future memory of their crappy selves still intact.

Now they have to decide what to do, either (A) act exactly the way they did before or (B) change it for the better. Obviously they should choose the first one right? Because if we knew anything about meddling with time is that one false move and they could end up not meeting their real destiny. Although the thing with destiny is that whatever you do, it still has a funny way of making your life turn out exactly the way it should be, but we will get to that later.

It was actually a lot harder to stick as planned seeing as they know the bad consequences that will happen out of the stupid things they did. Could they just NOT do those things and maybe their lives might actually turn out better? Like how John Cusak could have not broken up with his presently cute girlfriend and not be stabbed by a fork? How the Black Dude could have sung well on stage and not booed over? How the Insane Guy could just not hate his life? How can a single teenager convince these guys that they can’t change anything here as it could result to him not being born?

What’s worse is that John actually meets a cute girl, Black Dude had the chance to sing Black Eyed Peas, and Insane Guy could fight back at the guy who beat him up and traumatized him. It all sounds pretty tempting, but should they actually change that past? I mean, they happened for a reason right? On the other hand, this whole ordeal of going back to the past could also be happening for a reason. Might they actually have been sent to the past to change their awful destinies? And how about the Teenage Guy, was he sent there to straighten out the older dudes and make sure everything goes back to exactly the way they were? Why were they sent there in the first place then? Tough questions for four guys who don’t know what the fuck is going on.

All of this are hypothetical questions as no one has ever gone back to the past and see if the future has actually changed for the better. I mean, it could turn out well for you but the rest of the world might have fallen apart in the process. That’s how delicate dealing with time travel is, well, in theory.

Hell is it a good thing our heroes aren’t so righteous, I mean, who’s to say what’s the right thing to do anyhow? They are a bunch of dudes who see an opportunity when they see one, and they are going to exploit it. Thing is, what if all this destiny crap was true, could it be that whatever they do, they would still end up with the same result? Like when John Cusack broke up with his girlfriend and got stabbed with a fork, and now did not break up with her but still go stabbed in the fork. Or the time Insane Guy thought his friends would finally show up this time for a gang fight, instead he got beaten up alone all over again.

Although maybe some small aspects of your life can’t be changed, but it would seem that in the grander scale, life has a way of making things work in your favor.

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