The Rotten Tomatoes website claims the consensus on Hot Tub Time Machine is that its “flagrantly foolish script-and immensely likable solid-make up for many of its flaws.” Persons are calling the film “hilarious” and “so stupid it is genius!”

There’s just one phrase in all of that that is true, although: stupid. And it might’t begin to inform the entire tawdry tale. Director Steve Pink did not simply cross the road on this one, he pole-vaulted over it.

Why? Is it simply simple ignorance?

“I don’t know where that line is. I have no idea,” Pink stated in an interview posted on iesb.net.

Or is it one thing worse? Something like a continuing contagious desire to make the subsequent sex comedy raunchier than the last. In that same interview, which is just too foul to reprint much of right here, Pink cited There’s Something About Mary and American Pie as license for creating such a sexual cesspool. However they’re in all probability more like goads. You can plot the factors on the downward spiral from Porky’s to Pie to The 40-12 months-Previous Virgin to Superbad to Zack and Miri Make a Porno … to Sizzling Tub Time Machine.

A whole lot of parents haven’t noticed this yet, by the way. Or perhaps they do not care. A colleague associated this encounter he had at a recent screening for the new Miley Cyrus film: A mother with a 9-12 months-previous in tow informed him that her daughter wanted to see Scorching Tub. Mother did not suppose she ought to say OK, but she actually wasn’t sure. The R score apparently wasn’t sufficient to tip the scales. Nor was the raunchy trailer. Here’s hoping this review does the trick. For her daughter’s sake as well as for the sake of hundreds of others.

The place’s the bottom? Sadly, there isn’t one. “Who can know” the depths of the “desperately depraved” heart? asks Jeremiah. No one. Not even Lou, Nick, Adam and Jacob. But in their case it’s not for lack of trying.