Page 8 {The Blue Banner} Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Hot Tub Time Machine delivers blast from the past Events Around Asheville By Josh Robinson Staff Writter [email protected] HATCH Asheville Thursday - Sunday ith memories of The Hangover Complete schedule Wstill fresh in our minds. Hot Tub available at Time Machine attempts to take us to www.hatchfest.org a distant place we’ve never been be­ fore: the ’80s. Well, considering the fact that a lot of the people that will be Action Fest interested in this movie were not even Thursday - Sunday bom until the ’90s, this effort is not en­ Action cinema film tirely in vain. festival and guest Plenty of Chuck Norris. movies at­ Updates available at tempt to create twitter.com/Actionfest wacky, whim­ sical and far- off lands with non-conventional trends and styles, but when traveling back to the ’80s, it is not hard to find some of the most ri­ OCIAL ATd i Pleasurb (^ubI diculous fads the world has ever seen. Simply put, the Reagan years are the perfect backdrop for a comedy. After GALACTIC all, it worked for National Lampoon s Vacation. But what is really in a name? Who­ Photo courtesy of MGM and United Artists I WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CYRIL'NEVILLE AND ever was in charge of naming this COREY HENRY (OF THE REBIRTH BRASS BAND) movie must have taken a page out of 1+ CEDRIC BURNSIDE & LIGHTNIN’ MALCOLM 11 The movie makes no attempt to deliver some sort of Wed. Apr. 9pm the book known as Snakes on a Plane. With a title like Hot Tub Time Ma­ moral message or deeper meaning, which sets chine, not much is left to the imagi­ nation, but the hot tub is only slightly it apart from many of today’s over-the-top more original than Bill and Ted’s time­ ______I traveling, George Carlin-operated tele­ comedies and allows it to simply be a *f/#MUSSai phone booth. good time, no strings attached. +MIKE FARRIS The cast oiMachine consists of John Thu. Apr. 15“'© 8pm Cusack (who coincidentally debuted in ’80s teen movies), Craig Robinson f fii ■Mf-ncniiif in' (more commonly known as the ware­ ecstasy simply acts as the literal and Tub Time Machine, you will be thank­ house worker, Darryl, from “The Of­ figurative bridge between the past and ful you never lived any conscious or Omi-BvTMCkeRS fice”), Rob Corddry (of “The Daily present. The movie makes no attempt self-aware years in the ’80s. It was cer­ Show” fame) and Clark Duke, (who to deliver some sort of moral message tainly not a time period marked with you may, or most likely may not, re­ or deeper meaning, which sets it apart great strides in human accomplish­ member from Super bad). from many of today’s over-the-top ment, with the exception of the rise of Km Piv PPP P P'ip PTH P'fP PI After Lou (Corddry) visits to the comedies and allows it to simply be a video games and the birth of the Teen­ hospital, his childhood buddies Adam good time, no strings attached. age Mutant Ninja Turtles. AITIIIFiSTClISIRIIIfilTAWUI (Cusack) and Nick (Robinson) decide Where some movies would have John Hughes surely would not want to take him for a therapeutic trip to the you believe the best policy is not to to be associated with a movie like winter mountain resort where they ad­ mess with the past, this movie poses this, and that is probably for the bet­ ventured as teenagers, dragging Jacob the question, “What if?” and responds ter. Classics like The Breakfast Club (Duke), Adam’s nephew, along with with an emphatically better answer. and Ferris Bueller's Day Offh&VQ their them. Remember The Butterfly Effect with place, and so does Machine. Significantly raunchier than the other Ashton Kutcher? Yeah, me neither, but I am not saying that 20 years down ’80s-centered, time-traveling adven­ the but the altered future in Hot Tub the road you are going to make sure ture known as Back to the Future, Hot Time Machine is much cooler. you buy this movie on Mega Blu-Ray Tub Time Machine makes no attempt Unless you take yourself too serious­ 3D IMAX Reality Experience DVD, *FUN.fA ROCKETiTO THE MOON to explain why spilling an energy drink ly, you will know what I mean when I but you will probably want to rent it. ,'&^SINGITLOUD' onto the hot tub controls transports ask, “You know how Napoleon Dyna­ Hot Tub Time Machine is definitely I Mon.Apr. 1 @6pm’....^ I people back in time a quarter centu­ mite seemed like a dumb idea before a movie worth seeing, as it is easily the ry. Neither does the resort repairman, you saw it?” Well, the same applies for funniest movie of the year. Of course, iiiniinH.tlieorangepeel.Det Chevy Chase. this movie. It is so intentionally stupid Chris Rock’s remake of Death at a Fu­ KTickEtPiaai The story does not revolve around it turns out to be funny. neral and Adam Sandler’s Grown Ups : BOX Offtl* WEDNESDAY-SAtURDAY I2pm-6:.t0|iin the hot tub. The bubbling pool of If you are like me, after seeing Hot aren’t out yet. I 1D1 BlIJMOREAVE ★ASHEVIllE.NC* 828.225.5851