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24H Weekend<br />
Hot Tub: Laugh-out-loud funny<br />
QMI AGENCY —Astheopening<br />
salvo is a dog’s rectal exam,<br />
you have to figure that Hot<br />
TubTimeMachineintendsto<br />
go where other gross-out<br />
comedies have never gone<br />
before.<br />
And then some.<br />
Rude, crude and fantasti-<br />
cally stupid, Hot Tub Time<br />
Machine is the sort of movie<br />
thatwillmakeyoulaugh—out<br />
loud,alot—inspiteofyourself.<br />
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It’s hilarious. It’s also completely<br />
mindless, but as it<br />
cheerfully celebrates its own<br />
awesome idiocy rather than<br />
pretendingtobesomethingit’s<br />
not, you can only love the<br />
thing.<br />
Hot Tub Time Machine<br />
will no doubt be hailed as this<br />
year’s Hangover, but in some<br />
ways it’s a better comedy. The<br />
time-travelelementissoludicrous<br />
that it distances the<br />
story from any hint of reality;<br />
as a result, it’s missing that<br />
whiff of mean-spiritedness.<br />
16<br />
Thismeansyoumightfeel<br />
less guilty about how much<br />
you laugh at Hot Tub Time<br />
Machine.<br />
Hot Tub Time<br />
Machine<br />
****<br />
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