Hot Tub Time Machine 2 2015

Wesley Morris, Grantland: Corddry, Robinson, Duke, and Scott have their partisans in the audience, but they're not actors who can carry a movie, even when it's split four ways -- not when their default settings tend to be some variation on "big baby" and "obnoxious jerk. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: The smart plotting of the first film is completely gone; this time the script barely bothers with the central mystery, preferring to lurch from one unfunny set piece to another. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Internal logic ... lends "Hot Tub Time Machine 2" not only its rough-and-ready comic vigor, but also a surprising measure of thematic integrity. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: It's watchable, which is the kind of faint praise that usually damns a movie, but in this case is a credit to Robinson's and Corddry's performances ... Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "Hot Tub Time Machine 2" is a movie that didn't need to be made, and certainly doesn't need to be seen - not when you can rent the original and still feel good about yourself afterward. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: Compared with last time, the returning team of director Steve Pink and writer Josh Heald practically doodle the gang's motivations and worse, their surroundings. Read more

Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: Provided you find any of this funny, the anarchic spirit can be exhilarating, but don't waste too much energy on it. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: So witless and unfunny and shoddily made it makes The Hangover 2 look like The Godfather 2. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: A flop-sweaty cash grab that gives a bad name to sequels in which key talent has jumped ship, Steve Pink's Hot Tub Time Machine 2 leaps forward rather than backward in time and sort of makes one wish the world had ended while it was en route. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: If one has to sit in front of a jet spray of degradation gags, better it feel like the occasional seltzer spritz than a fire hose blast to the crotch. Read more

Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: If I could bubble a time machine to 2010, I'd advise Pink, "Quit while you're ahead." Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Returning director Steve Pink often simply shows his actors a prop -- a piece of furniture, say -- and asks them to make jokes about it. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The first movie was raunchy, but this one is just rude - with plenty of bodily fluids being flung around, and far too many jokes about genitals. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The sequel takes everything that was good about the first film - a raunchy, though affectionate, take on how guys look back on the moment when their lives went south - and makes it seem accidental. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: As could have been predicted, "Hot Tub Time Machine 2" is vastly inferior to the first "Hot Tub," but it's not stupid so much as desperately frantic. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: In the future, in the past, at all points along the space-time continuum, the Theory of the Teenage Male Mind throws everything out of whack. Read more

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a dull, lazy, scattershot would-be comedy about a group of mostly unlikable characters who have all the depth of the Three Stooges in the Curly Joe era. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's just bad. It's boring, folks. Read more

Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail: Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is the proverbial turd in the Jacuzzi - you can't pin down who's responsible, but it's a floater that ruins the party. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: An early candidate for worst sequel of 2015 and also worst movie. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: There's another time problem here: namely, the minutes that drag between one laugh and the next. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Sans the original's redemptive nostalgia or any newfound cleverness, it's just a manic, flop-sweat-drenched mess. Read more

Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun: Prediction: If you liked the original, you will probably enjoy a return soaking. If you did not tolerate that kind of idiocy the first time, I guarantee you will not want to see the sequel. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: For those who liked the first movie and find a plethora of penis jokes hilarious, this is a fitting sequel. But others should stay away. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is so bad it might make you question your allegiance to the original Hot Tub Time Machine. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: If you have to ask yourself whether this film is for you, it isn't. Read more