Hot-Tub Time Machine actually has some pretty great moments.
1. One character is a lapsed musician who gave up on his rock and roll dream. When he goes back in time and is reunited with his band, he realizes he can totally steal songs from the future and claim them as his own. Given the chance to claim any song ever written after 1986 as his own, what does he choose? Jesse's Girl by Rick Springfield. Hell to the yes.
1a. Rob Corddry's character eventually does the same thing with Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue.
2. Crispin Glover, best known in my family as the guy who played the dad in the Back to the Future franchise, has a cameo as a one-armed bellhop. It's so meta!
2a. How pumped were YOU when the opening sequence on the Oscars referenced Back to the Future? Answer: SO pumped.
3. The last scene of the movie features an "OMG THIS IS THE FUTURE" montage accompanied by Same As It Ever Was by the Talking Heads. I have a soft spot for filmmakers who aren't afraid to score the obvious songs, because oftentimes those songs are obvious for a reason, you know?
Man, I love working for an institution that lets me borrow and watch movies like this for free. I can almost convince myself it's an act of cultural edification.
Say what you want about Motley Crue, but Home Sweet Home is a solid rock ballad that withstands the test of time. The above scene should be taken as proof of this.
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