When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.
Corddry, Robinson, Duke, and Scott have their partisans in the audience, but they're not actors who can carry a movie, even when it's split four ways -- not when their default settings tend to be some variation on "big baby" and "obnoxious jerk.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
20 Feb 2015
rotten:
Sans the original's redemptive nostalgia or any newfound cleverness, it's just a manic, flop-sweat-drenched mess.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out,
20 Feb 2015
rotten:
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is so bad it might make you question your allegiance to the original Hot Tub Time Machine.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
23 Feb 2015
fresh:
Provided you find any of this funny, the anarchic spirit can be exhilarating, but don't waste too much energy on it.
– Drew Hunt,
Chicago Reader,
26 Feb 2015
rotten:
It's a dull, lazy, scattershot would-be comedy about a group of mostly unlikable characters who have all the depth of the Three Stooges in the Curly Joe era.