Hot Tub Time Machine (F)

(R for nudity, drug use, pervasive profanity, strong crude & sexual content):  A story with promise at its base - a quartet of good friends after a night of drinking wake up in a ski resort hot tub to find that they've been transported back to 1986, with endless possibilities (to predict the future of ball games, for example) to better their lives.  What we have here is Josh Heald's superficial script, director Steve Pink's lack of imaginative originality and John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson & Clark Duke, without much inspiration, drag themselves from one clichéd situation to another. 

The wonderful possibilities of the time-travel premise are reduced to lowest low-brow humor aimed at low-brow audiences who still laugh at bodily function jokes, excessive boozing, drugging, boob-exploring frat-party-type adolescent chaotic action.  There is no escape from the 80's clichés that result in a bitterly disappointing, unfunny 100-minutes of uninspired material.  (Grade: F)