hot tub time machine

this one should have been a homerun. i was so excited about this one and so ready to love it. then i saw it. it was pretty disappointing. the set up is great: four guys are partying and remembering the good old days back when they were kids, then they happen to be whisked back to the 80's with their hot tub time machine! they get to go back and relive their glory days for a single night. sounds like the perfect opportunity to show all kinds of really funny 80's nostalgia type things, right? well they do, but its not nearly as funny as it should be. i mean, they've some how convinced mr. 80's himself, john cusack, to be in it, but it still never really leaves the cleaver premise. this thing had all the makings of a movie that would take off and really be filled with great zingers and perfect moments of reliving their youth, but instead it just kind of sits there with half hearted jokes that fall pretty flat. with this being the competition, i guess bill and ted (and marty mcfly) are still the kings of the time machine.