2010 - Rated R - 1 hr 41 min
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Sebastian Stan, Lynsdy Fonseca, Crispin Glover, Chevy Chase
I know this movie should be dumb. But what makes it work is that this movie knows it's supposed to be dumb. A group of middle-aged guys tries to relive their glory days with a vacation in their favorite old ski resort town... which is now a dump. Disappointed, they get hammered and have a party in the hot tub. Which is a time machine that sends them back to the best vacation of their lives. In 1986.
Stupid. I know. But as a lover of classic John Hughes 80's classics (and John Cusack), it's hard not to want to love this movie. The 80s jokes abound, the cast embraces their own ridiculousness, and the writers are acutely aware that their plot is campy. It works. And I think it's just plain hysterical.
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