is this critic demented? with a title like Hot Tub Time Machine, you get what you pay for. were you expecting Citizen Kane? this movie was pretty funny. not exactly high art, but funny. And no, it wasn't a ripoff of Back to the Future, although Crispin Glover (George McFly in Back to the Future) does play the one-armed bellhop in this movie...which is actually one of the funniest running gags in the movie. The trailers spoil most of the good lines in this movie, but there is enough left in it to keep you entertained throughout. I laughed more in this movie than I did when I watched The Hangover. And I saw a matinee showing with only me and six senior citizens in the audience. If you see an evening show with a crowd, the more the merrier.

The Merc has terrible movie reviewers, I bet there isn't an adult in the mix who watched Pulp Fiction in the theaters. They take themselves too seriously and it seems that most of them have only 1 version of what a good movie is and can't seem to differentiate between comedy and drama, their reviews are to be ignored.