Admit it. Although your birth date falls in the late eighties or (gasp!) nineties, you still love the puffy-bright-tracksuit-side-ponytail-wearing-“Breakfast Club”-loving generation.
But to reminisce about the 1980s, you don’t need to slip on a pair of leg warmers or shimmy into a unitard. On March 26, a movie so ludicrous in idea but so well played on screen will hit theaters bringing you back to the eighties.
“Hot Tub Time Machine” follows four best friends (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke) who are bored with their everyday lives and take a ski trip to blow off some steam. But after a long night of drinking in a hot tub, the guys find themselves transported to 1986.
During Spring Break, MGM Studios flew me out to Lake Tahoe for the film’s press junket. And upon arrival, I was whisked away to a Winterfest 1980s party to mingle with the cast of the movie.
First on my list of stars to meet was Duke, who’s known for his role as Dale on ABC Family’s “Greek.” As soon as I mentioned I came from UF, Duke placed his drink down and immediately started Gator chomping.
Crispin Glover (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Back to the Future”) was also in attendance, but his mood was far from chipper due to a red-bull-and-vodka spill on his pinstripe suit earlier that night.
Corddry (“What Happens in Vegas,” “The Daily Show”) cheered up the party by taking ridiculous pictures with fans and reminding every journalist how hungover he’d be at interviews the next morning. And Robinson (“The Office,” “Pineapple Express”) stole the show as he rightfully sported a Dunder Mifflin jacket and broke it down on stage performing his rendition of “Jessie’s Girl.”
The movie has been said to be the hybrid of “Knocked Up” and “The Hangover.” Lizzy Caplan, well-known as Janis Ian from “Mean Girls,” said she wishes critics wouldn’t compare the film to others so fans can make their own decision about its laugh-factor. You be the judge when it hits theaters March 26.
