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Hot Tub Time Machine

That goofy title offers self-explanatory shorthand for the plot of this raunchy 2010 comedy (containing certain moments of “humor” that are now rather dated). But it earns points for committing to its absolutely bonkers premise, imagining that a trio of washed-up and variously depressed friends (John Cusack, Craig Robinson, and Rob Corddry) reunite at a ski resort, where they unexpectedly travel back to 1986—and, after a certain amount of bumbling, figure out what they need to do in the past to fix all the crummy aspects of their present-day lives. (Max)