Hot Tub Time Machine

Intro

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• flick
• nod to
• hilarious
• loosely

• era
• relive
• trip down memory lane
• psychological thriller

• hang out
• shout out

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1986 wasn’t all that long ago. But so much was different. We didn’t have cell phones, iPhones, email or Twitter. We didn’t even have English, baby! It’s hard to imagine how people ever communicated with one another back then, or why anyone would want to return to that era.

In the new comedy Hot Tub Time Machine, four guys spend one crazy night in a hot tub and wake up in 1986. They get a chance to relive the era of leg warmers and shoulder pads, and to try to fix all the problems in their current lives. Find out if Ella and Devan plan to take a trip down memory lane with Hot Tub Time Machine.

Dialog

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Ella

Devan

Ella:  Hot Tub Time Machine, sounds like a party.

Devan:  I gotta say, I’m pretty excited. It’s gonna be fun to see John Cusack finally return to comedy as opposed to all these psychological thrillers he’s been doing. And I like that this movie is kind of like a shout out to his 80s flicks, you know?

Ella:  I know, it just seems so familiar. He’s just a little bigger and older, and it’s just like, oh, this seems right.

Devan:  Yeah. I heard that it has a lot of nods to Better Off Dead, his old movie and stuff.

Ella:  I think this is gonna be hilarious. The concept is just so out there that you know the jokes are just gonna be insane.

Devan:  Yeah, so what is the concept exactly? I loosely know, but…

Ella:  There are like four dudes or something hanging out in a hot tub, and all of a sudden they’re in 1986. So…

Devan:  And then they like get the chance to fix their lives, to like do it all over again?

Ella:  Something like that, you know. But I think the whole travel along the way will be the interesting part.

 

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