20 Terrible Movies That Do NOT Deserve Their Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Scores
9. Hot Tub Time Machine
Score: 64% (Average Score: 6.10/10)
Consensus: Its flagrantly silly script -- and immensely likable cast -- make up for most of its flaws.
Hot Tub Time Machine is similar to Bad Neighbours 2; it's another terrible R-rated comedy that somehow received generally positive reviews from critics.
This one did have quite a good premise, and even though it shamelessly borrows from movies like Back to the Future, Groundhog Day and It's a Wonderful Life, this would be at least partly forgivable if the picture was funny. Unfortunately, it rarely is.
In general, Hot Tub Time Machine is a messy, largely mirthless affair in which all of its dramatic moments feel forced, and its consistently crude humour is just obnoxious and low as opposed to boundary-pushing. Compared to other R-rated comedies from the same time, such as The Hangover or Horrible Bosses, this just didn't have it.
As such, it will always be a mystery as to what, exactly, critics saw in this.
Average Score: 30-50%.