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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015), R, 0 stars

It's them 10 years from now. 
Make it or break it: Time travel comedies can either work or suffer or just sink into one of the worst movies ever. The first movie had a fresh but crazy idea of setting a hot tub as a time-travel portal and it was kind of fun and I kind of enjoyed it. You have to have memorable characters with a witty and funny script and a good or decent story just to pleasant us during the whole run-time. They did about 2 and a half things in the first movie correctly. This sequel, however, is the bane of our existence because there is nothing going on and just substitutes the material and comedy with infantile jokes, disgust and boredom that almost made me walk out of the theater. Yes, I was that close. Well, not as close as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Lou (Rob Cordry), Nick (Craig T. Robinson), and Lou's son, Jacob (Clark Duke) are enjoying life in their own ways. Lou is a mogul with his empire and his side band Motley Lou, Nick has become a popular musician because he has made hit songs before the present artists actually made them. Jacob does not want to be associated his dad.

Nick is seen recording a music video that is supposed to recorded by Lisa Loeb in the future as she is now his cat wrangler and the song, "Stay", inspires her. Nick quietly apologizes to her for stealing it. Lou joins his employees as his employees are tiresome of his childish behavior as they said that the company is going downhill but Lou does not care as he brags about time travel. Lou hosts a party and Jacob is infatuated by Sophie (Bianca Haase), who only sees him as his father's butler. Moments later, Lou has been shot in his private area (it's a comedy, what can you do?) and Jacob grabs a vial of nitrotrinadium and puts it into the hot tub and goes in there to find the killer.

Well, I guess that they went back in time. 
This movie was not too funny and I only chuckled at the scene where Robinson was doing his rendition of the song, "Stay" and that was probably much it. And, the plot is really about finding Lou's killer and it revolves around that one penis joke for the entire film and it is dull. Plus, there are drug jokes and gay jokes and sex jokes and none of them are funny but a few are just disgusting and repetitive and it felt like watching a kid throwing some pies at a person over and over and over and the more pies he throws, the less funny it gets.

Craig Robinson was the savior of trying to get this movie in gear but he disappears for most of the movie. Cordry is like fingernails on a chalkboard sliding down so slowly that I do not want to see him anymore and Duke has nothing to do except pout, whine and try to get a girl. Adam Scott, who is actually a funny guy, is playing a stock character and a predictable one, too.

There's nothing else to criticize here because it is another worthless Hollywood product full of unfunny concoctions of stupidity and predictability that does not take off or make us laugh. It is repetitive with tryst of inserting jokes into different sets which are not spectacular around one big unfunny joke. This movie has nothing to offer to the audience and that is too bad because they are talented people. It is a colossal failure of a comedy. I have probably seen the worst film of 2015 and we have 10 months to go so, good luck to the studios to dethrone this turd. And, I'm talking to Adam Sandler.

ZERO

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