Hot Tub - The whirlpool ... is a damn time machine!
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| German title | Hot Tub - The whirlpool ... is a damn time machine! |
| Original title | Hot tub time machine |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | Theatrical version: 97 minutes Extended Cut: 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Steve Pink |
| script |
Josh Heald John Morris Sean Anders |
| production |
John Cusack Matt Moore Grace Loh John Morris |
| music | Christophe Beck |
| camera | Jack N. Green |
| cut |
George Folsey, Jr. James Thomas |
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Hot Tub - The whirlpool ... is a damn time machine! is an American journey - comedy from 2010. In 2015, a continuation of the film was released, entitled Hot Tub Time Machine 2 . The film opened in German cinemas on September 30, 2010.
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Adam has just been left by his girlfriend. She emptied almost the entire house and left hardly anything for him. His nephew Jacob lives in his basement and prefers to obsessively play Second Life instead of worrying about his life. Nick is also stranded in his life. He had to give up his music career in favor of his wife, works in a dog spa and lives in a marriage with a control-addicted woman who also seems to be having an affair. Lou is already further there. He's divorced and has nothing besides a pile of debt. Overall, 2010 doesn't have much to offer everyone.
So it is that Lou a suicide attempt takes by with a song of his favorite band Motley Crue a carbon monoxide poisoning caused. When Adam and Nick later visit him in the hospital, he denies everything. It was just an accident. Aware of their situation, all three spontaneously arrange to spend a weekend at the Kodiak Valley Ski Resort, where they once had their best time. They travel there with bag and baggage, as well as Adam's nephew Jacob, and realize that the Kodiak Valley has seen better days. They spend the night in a shabby, smelly hotel. Even the ill-tempered one-armed page Phil Wedmaier has had his best days. During a crazy and boisterous night full of alcohol consumption in the hot tub, someone spilled the illegal Chernobly (based on the Chernobyl disaster ) on its electronics. When they wake up the next morning, they see a little squirrel that Lou vomits on. Even after a ski trip, no one notices what happened. Only in a bar they see how many a Walkman use, President Ronald Reagan appears on television, David Bowie for MTV advertises and Alf greatest popularity. But only after answering black when asked what skin color Michael Jackson is, do they notice that everything has suddenly changed and that they are in the 1980s .
Back in the hotel room they find out that the one-armed page Phil has two arms. You are sure to have landed in 1986. A look in the mirror reveals that they see themselves as 2010 editions while others see them as they once looked in 1986. The bald man Lou suddenly has a long rocker mane on his head, Nick is slimmer and has a tower hairstyle and Adam is also slimmer. Except for Jacob, who wasn’t born in 1986 and looks like 2010.
Adam, Lou, and Nick remember what weekend they were at the resort in 1986 and that the evening wasn't ideal. Adam left his girlfriend Jenny and got a fork in the eye as a thank you. Lou was bullied and beaten up by Blaine. While Blaine could count on his friends, Adam and Nick let him down. Meanwhile, Nick had to cope with a disaster during a music competition. But Jacob is also involved in this evening, so his mother was impregnated by an unknown man, because 9 months later he saw the light of day. With some background knowledge about Terminator , Timecop and Stargate , they are aware of the consequences of their actions and fear worse consequences for their own future based on the butterfly effect. So you have to face their torment. Jacob's very existence depends on it.
Adam knows that he has to part with his childhood sweetheart Jenny. But he is not only afraid that he will be stabbed in the eye again, but also that he knows that he will never love a woman like that again. He knows she was the last. While he hesitates, the timeline is already beginning to change. He meets April, a young journalist he once did not meet, and quickly becomes friends with her. During a meeting near the hot tub between Adam, Nick, and Lou, it becomes clear that he didn't stick to the deal to relive the past. In a heated argument, the three friends split up and decide to go their own way. Adam, dutifully and emotionally confused, meets with Jenny again, but instead of breaking up with her and getting a fork in the eye because of it, Jenny gets ahead of him and breaks up with him. Adam can't believe that and lets himself into a tirade of frustration and gets a fork in the eye for it. Out of grief over this loss, Adam consumes stuff from his drug suitcase and writes love poems. After looking high at the stars, he runs into April again. Both spend the evening together and get closer.
Lou himself doesn't want to face his past. Although he reluctantly allows himself to be beaten by Blaine, he notices at the latest when Adam didn't keep his end of the bargain that he can use his knowledge about the future. During a game of billiards, a television is playing in the background and broadcasts a live football game. Lou recalls the AFC Championship Game between the Denver Broncos and the Cleveland Browns . After several bets, shortly before the end of the game, in an all or nothing bet including a blowjob, he bet that 37 seconds before the end a pass from John Elway will contribute a touchdown to the victory of the Broncos. This actually went down in history as The Drive . But as if by coincidence, it doesn't happen here, because the squirrel, to which Lou vomited before, runs across the field and thwarts the pass acceptance. Lou not only loses all of his money, which would be bearable, but has to, as previously bet, satisfy Nick orally.
Nick tries to repeat his past too and has sex with a groupie named Tara. But because his love for his future wife plagues him with severe remorse, he cannot enjoy it. The fact that his wife was only 9 years old in 1986 and that he has not yet met her is irrelevant to him. During the argument with Adam whether he left his Jenny or not, he too decides to go his own way. After he accompanied Lou's bet and became a bet victim for a blowjob with him, all he has to do is pay off a disgrace in his past. While he was booed at the music competition the first time, he had a crushing success on stage with the hit Let's Get It Started by the Black Eyed Peas .
Jacob's biggest problem is simply that he may never be born. So he constantly tries to convince everyone that they should stick to their past. The technician, who unfortunately always expresses himself cryptically, says that there is not much time to travel back to the future and that the secret of the journey lies in Chernobly . After he let Adam and Nick know, they look for Lou, who by chance got into a fight with Blaine. When they find him on the roof, a little argument starts about friendship and whether the future or the past is the better time. Lou slips, almost falls off the roof and is just held by Adam and Nick. When these almost crash, the future one-armed Phil intervenes and saves them with his strong right arm. Lou can't believe he still hasn't seen Phil lose that arm. But there is no time for that and all four set out to find the Chernobly , which is owned by Blaine, who stole Lou's backpack. So everyone searches the property's rooms. But here, too, not everything goes according to plan. While Adam and Jacob search Blaine's room, Nick takes a little break and calls the nine-year-old version of his wife, confronting her with his pain and frustration that her future self has betrayed him with certain sex practices. Adam and Jacob interrupt him and prevent him from calling again. Meanwhile Lou should have looked too, but he preferred to seduce Kelly. During sex with her he is interrupted by the other three and suddenly Jacob disappears. Lou registers this and knows that he is Jacob's father and that he has to end it with Adam's sister in order for Jacob to be born.
After this is done, only Blaine with the Chernobly stands in their way. But this time Lou does not let himself get down and defends himself. With the help of his friends, they conquer their Chernobly and manage to escape. On the run they are supported by the two-armed Phil, while Blaine and his people pursue them. When they reach the hotel, they thank Phil, who also thanks and loses his right arm. Lou can finally cheer, he has seen how the one-armed Phil once lost his arm. The Chernobly is then quickly poured over the whirlpool and Nick and Jacob travel back in time. Lou himself reveals to Adam that he tried to kill himself and that the 80s were his time. He shoves Adam into the pool and stays behind himself.
Adam, Nick and Jacob arrive in their old hotel room in 2010. A small DVD player awaits them with a DVD. In it Lou explains how he has spent the last few years and that he used his knowledge to enrich himself, he is a partner in Lougle and was once a band member of Mötley Lüe . Phil surprises her with further instructions and explains how he once nearly lost his right arm and was saved and cared for by Blaine and his people. When Adam later enters his house, he is delighted to see that he is married to April and that he apparently had a happy marriage of several years. Nick also seems to have made his fortune in life, so he started a successful career as a music producer after the screening of Let's Get It Started . Likewise, his wife has become a faithful loving wife after receiving a scary phone call when she was nine years old. Jacob suddenly has loving parents too. Kelly and Lou are still together after 24 years and offer him a family.
German version
The Berlin -based dubbing company FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH was responsible for the translation, directed by Sven Hasper .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Adam | John Cusack | Andreas Fröhlich |
| Jacob | Clark Duke | Fabian Hollwitz |
| Nick Webber | Craig Robinson | Daniel Zillmann |
| Lou Dorchen | Rob Corddry | Olaf Reichmann |
| April | Lizzy Caplan | Natascha Geisler |
| Blaine | Sebastian Stan | Robin Kahnmeyer |
| Chaz | Charlie McDermott | Konrad Bösherz |
| technician | Chevy Chase | Joachim Tennstedt |
| Jenny | Lyndsy Fonseca | Magdalena Turba |
| Kelly | Collette Wolfe | Maria Koschny |
| Phil | Crispin Glover | Sven Hasper |
| Zoe | Crystal Lowe | Debora refuses |
| Lucy | Julia Maxwell | Anja Rybiczka |
| Tare | Jessica Paré | Nicole Hannak |
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film was released on March 23, 2010 by Rhino Records . While around 40 titles are used in the film, only 15 were selected for the soundtrack. Some of them are sung by the original performers and others by the actors. However, there were some anachronisms . That's how the film takes place in 1986, but some songs were not released until later. So the song Smooth Up in Ya of the hard rock band BulletBoys was not released until 1988. Also Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue did not appear in the 1989th
Anachronisms
- Blaine is standing in his room in front of a poster of Rambo III , which was not released until 1988.
- Blaine believes Adam, Nick, and Lou might be KGB spies in a 21 Jump Street version. The series itself was first broadcast on FOX on April 12, 1987 .
- John Elways The Drive also didn't take place until January 11, 1987.
reception
Hot Tub Time Machine received generally good reviews; Rotten Tomatoes reports that 64% of the 187 movie reviews were positive, with an average rating of 6.1 / 10. The consensus of the critics is: "His totally silly script and his particularly lovable actors make almost all weak points forgotten" ( Its flagrantly silly script — and immensely likable cast — make up for most of its flaws ). At Metacritic , the film averages 63 out of 100, which indicates generally positive reviews.
The critic AO Scott of the New York Times newspaper stated: “The film is so fast and crazy, changes direction abruptly, slips and then turns around for several seconds, so that smaller gags in the gags are immediately overtaken by larger ones ("The picture moves so quickly and crazily, swerving and skidding and doubling back for seconds, that minor lapses in wit are immediately overtaken by major (and therefore hilarious) lapses in taste." ) He continued his criticism that “the undercurrent of misogyny and homophobic panic that runs through most developmentally inhibited, male-centered comedies these days is of course also present here. But unlike in the movie Hangover , where the childish male characters are belittled and sentimentalized - which allows them to crack and then run home to Mommy - is hot tub - the whirlpool ... is a damn time machine in its roughness honest and pretty tough Images of men who are the actors and objects of his satire. "(" The undercurrent of misogyny and homophobic panic that courses through most arrested-development, guy-centric comedies these days is certainly present here. But unlike, say, The Hangover , which sweetens and sentimentalizes its man-child characters - allowing them to run wild and then run home to Mommy - Hot Tub Time Machine is honest in its coarseness and pretty tough on the fellows who are the agents and objects of its satire. ")
continuation
A sequel to the film entitled Hot Tub Time Machine 2 was released on February 20, 2015, directed by Steve Pink . The main actors Clark Duke , Craig Robinson and Rob Corddry are represented again; John Cusack can only be seen in a cameo on the unrated version of the film.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for hot tub - The whirlpool ... is a damn time machine! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 128 K).
- ^ German dubbing files with a list of dubbing actors.
- ^ A b Hot Tub Time Machine Film Reviews . Rotten tomatoes . Retrieved May 28, 2010.
- ^ Hot Tub Time Machine Reviews . Metacritic . Retrieved May 28, 2010.
- ^ AO Scott : Hot Tub Time Machine - Times May Change, but Regret Endures . March 26, 2010. Retrieved December 9, 2011.