The critic consesnsus is: Its flagrantly silly script -- and immensely likable cast -- make up for most of its flaws.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?
1. Hot Tub Time Machine, which wants nothing more than to be a screwball farce, succeeds beyond any expectations suggested by the title and extends John Cusack's remarkable run.
2. If the title makes you want to see the movie, you'll get what you're hoping for.
3. A handful of good one-liners means Hot Tub Time Machine has its moments; it's the rest of the movie that's the problem.
4. A chlorinated, R-rated Back to the Future, Hot Tub Time Machine accomplishes what Snakes on a Plane did not: It offers a merrily idiotic movie to go with its willfully idiotic title.
5. This is a lot of fun. Cusack's funniest film in many years.
6. This raunchy, 80s-soaked comedy is every bit as funny as a movie called "Hot Tub Time Machine" should be. Which is to say, quite a bit.
7. Hot Tub Time Machine isn't a good movie, but like a bubbling bath it keeps pounding at us until our resistance wears down.
8. balances middle-age angst with adolescent idiocy and embraces the ridiculous while playing it absolutely straight
9. Hot Tub Time Machine has enough genuinely funny moments to make it worth checking out.
10. What could be a platform for retro fun, inventive plotting, and outrageous humor instead becomes mired in tired time travel clichés, trite '80s shtick, and lazy comedy.