Nick Weber-Agnew (Craig Robinson) hyphenates his last name because his wife made him take hers. His career should have been a musician but he’s a lowly dog groomer at “Sup Dawg.” Adam (John Cusack) is recently divorced, feels like he lost the love of his life, and has his nephew Jacob (Clark Duke) living in the basement, where he plays video games all day. But it’s Lou (Rob Corddry) who’s the tie-that-binds and the movie’s heartbeat. Lou is the laugh-out-loud best friend who accidentally fumigates himself by hitting the garage door opener when he’s jamming out drunk to a radio song. And fyi: he looks like “Stevie from“Family Guy.” Collectively they’re losers who wish – as we all often do – that they chose different paths long ago. And so they take a road trip to Kodiak Valley where back in the 80s they were all that at a ski resort. Following hits like The Hangover this premise analyzes three dudes who took wrong turns and find themselves in a hot tub that tosses them back to the lost generation of the 80s (some twenty years prior.) Think about it… What did the 1980s give us other then Vanilla Ice and hot pink tights? But this film is also part Back To The Future because the guys have to figure out how not to alter their futures when they do return to 2010 from their hot tub disaster. But while in the classic film timing and perfection are everything, these guys opt not to necessarily do things the way their lives intended. (btw: Chevy Chase dressed in Ghostbuster attire shows up as the hot tub repairman and the cute blonde guy from the tv show “The White Shadow” is a bad ass.Where did they find him?) The movie is truly aimed at us over-forty types. It’s unnecessarily intelligent, has no purpose other than to entertain, yet manages to make an audience address one big question: If we could change our past, would we? Three tiaras
