{"id":35569,"date":"2015-02-20T00:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T05:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=35569"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:12:32","slug":"new-releases-february-20-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/20\/new-releases-february-20-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: February 20, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hottubtimemachine2\"<\/a>1. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (Paramount, 2,880 Theaters, 93 Minutes, Rated R for crude sexual content and language throughout, graphic nudity, drug use and some violence, Rotten Tomatoes rating as of press time : 16% Fresh<\/a> [38 Reviews]): <\/strong> The first Hot Tub Time Machine<\/strong> worked and worked on a number of levels. Weirdly, it was a return to the 1980’s teen comedies that gave John Cusack his start. It played with the conventions of the time-travel genre, mocking everything from the method of travel (a hot tub is silly, but is it really that much more silly than a British Police box or a DeLorean?) to the “we can’t change the future’ trope (the characters not only change their own future, they profit greatly from it). And it married the 80s raunchiness with the 10s raunchiness.<\/p>\n

Well, Cusack is nowhere to be found this time around (supposedly, he wasn’t asked back<\/a>, even though he produced the first film.). Almost all the tropes were covered the first time around, This leaves only the raunchiness.<\/p>\n

This time, the boys have to break out the hot tub after Lou (Rob Corddry) gets shot. But instead of the past, the jacuzzi sends them to the future.<\/p>\n