Hot Tub Time Machine

Hot Tub Time Machine is rated R: for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use and pervasive language.

Because we only review G, PG, and PG-13 movies at Parent Previews we did not review this title. For your convenience, we have provided some brief information about the film’s synopsis and content.

Synopsis: Hot tubs have long been lauded as a great way to relax and rejuvenate. But this movie takes that idea a little further by presenting a soothing soak capable of taking its users back in time. When four pals dip their toes in this hot water (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke), they end up in 1986.

Director: Steve Pink
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke
Studio: 2010 MGM
Website: Official site for Hot Tub Time Machine.

This additional information about the movie’s content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards:

Violence:

- Portrayals of violence, including depictions of fighting, stabbing and dismemberment (some blood and detail shown).

- Occasional gory images.

Sexual Content:

- Portrayals of implied/ simulated sexual activity (breast nudity seen)..

- Infrequent portrayals of breast and buttock nudity in non-sexual contexts.

- Infrequent references to coerced sexual activity.

- Frequent use of crude and descriptive sexual language, references and sexual slurs.

- Crude content.

- Implied sexual activity.

- Embracing and kissing.

- Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions.

Language:

- Pervasive use of the sexual expletive and variations, some in a sexual context.

- Frequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing and vulgar expressions.

- Slurs.

Drugs and Alcohol:

- Frequent portrayals of alcohol consumption to excess.

- Detailed portrayals of illegal substance abuse for recreational purposes.

- Tobacco use.

Hot Tub Time Machine releases to DVD and Blu-ray on June 29, 2010.

A curiosity with the past, present and future has inspired other movies, like the film adaptations of H.G. Wells’ science fiction story, The Time Machine (1960 and 2002). A man gets stuck in time in the comedy Groundhog Day.