And now there is a sequel. Yes, the gang sans le Cussack are back for another exploration in time travel and it looks terrible. Releasing the trailer as part of this weekend’s San Diego Comic Con (insert grumble of jealousy here) Hot Tub Time Machine 2 has released their brand new Red Band Trailer not suitable for kids, not suitable for anyone.
So it’s a brand new future where Lou has exploited his knowledge of the future to cater the world to himself. Inventing the internet and all such frivolities, he is now one of the most famous person in the world and we all bend to his creations. Nick, himself, is creating songs that he knows from his original lifetime to become an insanely famous songwriter. However, celebrating his new stature in the world, Lou is shot (in the dick naturally,) and dies. So Nick and Jacob band together, take the dying body to the Hot Tub Time Machine and get sent to a time in order to stop the murderer; ten years in the future.
What the trailer has presented us is a fucked up, crazy future with drugs, tits and bad jokes. Not necessarily bad but not terrifically good either. That's pretty much what you have to take from this. It could go either way but the amount of unnecessary sequels and the lack of Cussack means this could genuinely be a swirling mess of hot shit.
Only time will tell.