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When the foursome ski down the mountain and are looking around at the oddly dressed people, someone behind John Cusack says, "Hey Lane, you owe me two dollars". This was a nudge to John Cusack, who played Lane Meyers in "Better Off Dead" and was pursued in the snow by a crazed paper boy shouting "Two dollars!" See more...

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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) - 9 corrections

starring Chevy Chase, Craig Robinson, Crispin Glover, John Cusack, Lizzy Caplan, Rob Corddry (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-fi

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The delay in the group's realization that they have traveled through time is implausible. Someone in the group would have encountered a mirror before Lou finally does shortly after Phil shows up with their luggage. Additionally, on their way to go skiing, they would have noticed that the lodge's rundown condition would have improved significantly overnight. [A bunch of guys are not necessarily going to check the mirror before they head out. They certainly noticed the improvement in the lodge's condition, but think about it: if it were you, would you immediately assume time travel was the cause? Of course not.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
At the end of the movie, after Lou has altered history, we see the video for "Home Sweet Home" by Motley Crue. "Home Sweet Home" was on the album "Theatre of Pain" which was released in 1985. The video had already been released by the events of the movie in 1986. [At the end of the movie, he recounts how he misses playing music, a la being in Motley Crue. Who's to say that he didn't form Motley Lue after the rest of the guys traveled back to the future?]
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In the scene when the guys bet on the outcome of the football game, their prediction is proven wrong when the vomit covered squirrel from the earlier scene runs onto the field and disrupts John Elway's pass. The movie takes place in Colorado, but the AFC Championship game featuring "The Drive" was played in Cleveland, OH. That's a lot of distance for a squirrel to travel in a couple hours. [The movie is a comedy. Sure it's unlikely for a squirrel to travel that distance in the given time, but so is a time machine in the form of a hot tub. The scene is there to demonstrate the effects of altering the future, not to prove how fast a squirrel can be. In a comedy, this is exactly the kind of liberties one might expect from a scriptwriter.]
Edit Corrected by RoyT
When John Cusack's character goes into the basement to chat to his Nephew, he says "c'mon you're 20 years old, get out and live life" (or something like that) when they go back in time his nephew is conceived in 1986 meaning that the present must be 2006 but when they get back into the tub to travel back to the present, the readout on the tub says 2010, where the nephew would now be 24 if he had been conceived in 1986. [It is a character mistake, and a pretty common one in real life. If you put a gun to my head, I couldn't tell you my nieces' exact ages, all I know is they are their 20s. It's not illogical for Cusack to just say he's 20, meaning *in* his 20s if he can't immediately recall his exact age.]
Edit Corrected by rswarrior
"Push it" by Salt 'n' Pepa, featured in the film, was released in 1987. ["Push It" was released on the album "Hot, Cool and Vicious" which was released in 1986, not 1987.]
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Sure, they say you should never question time-travel logic in a comedy movie. But when the friends that decided to get in the hot tub at the end return to the present, their future has changed. However, Lou acts like he hasn't seen them since then. This obviously cannot be: if they weren't there up until the point they returned, they wouldn't have had any of the things they returned to. Sure, they changed the future through their actions, but they'd need to be there for the next 20 years in order to maintain those changes. And they couldn't have existed, and replaced their present selves when they returned, as their present selves wouldn't have gone to the Kodiak Club anyway, since Lou wouldn't have tried to kill himself, so their present selves wouldn't have gotten into the time machine in the first place. Deep. [Once the past was changed, the future continued on the changed path whether they went back in time or not. In other words, once it was changed it stayed the same as the changed time path.]
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When Nick is in the "Sup Dawg" place, he gets a call on his IPhone. When they go back in time, he is on the ski slope (trying to get a signal) with a flip phone. [Lots of people have and carry more than one cell phone.]
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At the start, the Bellhop acts like he doesn't know the gang, and they act like they've never met him. Yet, we later learn that they had some significant run-ins with this guy many times and are regulars at this place, to the point that in the new future the guy is almost a friend of theirs. Plus, the gang is surprised at his one arm, yet they knew about it and how it happened as they saw it. The only thing affected by what they changed is that he had it reattached. [Have you ever thought that at the beginning they weren't that special to him? They only had the amount of run ins that they did because they went back in time. Also, they only witnessed him losing his arm because they went back in time.]
Edit Corrected by David Hutchinson
When they are in the year 1986, a man is seen with a cell phone. The first cell phone wasn't released until 1989 by Motorola. [Incorrect the first cell phones were around since the late 70's and the earliest cell phone in the US, the Motorola DynaTAC, was released in 1983.]
Edit Corrected by MasterOfAll