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Movies that feel like Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

If you loved Hot Tub Time Machine, the closest films we have are The Adam Project (2022), (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004) and Free Guy (2021). All three share Hot Tub Time Machine's cerebral and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Paramount Plus Premium and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.

πŸ… 64% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Steve Pinkcerebralwittyplayfulepic

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The Adam Project
2022 Β· dir. Shawn Levy
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.7adventure Β· science fiction Β· comedy

Common ground: time travel

After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.

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(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
2004 Β· dir. Michael Herbig
β˜… 5.5comedy Β· science fiction Β· adventure

The same preoccupation in both: time travel

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the Dreamship Surprise – Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty – for help.

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Free Guy
2021 Β· dir. Shawn Levy
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· adventure Β· science fiction

Both land ideas and wit at once

A bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story. Now, in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it's too late.

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Paul
2011 Β· dir. Greg Mottola
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.9adventure Β· comedy Β· science fiction

One thread runs through both: 1980s

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.

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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014 Β· dir. Rob Minkoff
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.7animation Β· science fiction Β· comedy

Playful and epic in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Hot Tub Time Machine does

A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.

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Galaxy Quest
1999 Β· dir. Dean Parisot
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· science fiction Β· adventure

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

The difference: Reviewed even better

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector β€” Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus β€” set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

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Back to the Future Part III
1990 Β· dir. Robert Zemeckis
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.5adventure Β· comedy Β· science fiction

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.

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Meet the Robinsons
2007 Β· dir. Stephen J. Anderson
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.8animation Β· comedy Β· family

Adventure with a pulse of play, in both cases

Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

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The World's End
2013 Β· dir. Edgar Wright
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.9comedy Β· action Β· science fiction

Both lean on scale more than on science fiction

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014 Β· dir. Jonathan Liebesman
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.8science fiction Β· action Β· adventure

Cerebral comedy, and it commits to that

When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.

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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
2004 Β· dir. Danny Leiner
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7comedy Β· adventure

Adventure with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Missing the ideas of Hot Tub Time Machine

Nerdy accountant Harold and his irrepressible friend, Kumar, get stoned watching television and find themselves utterly bewitched by a commercial for White Castle. Convinced there must be one nearby, the two set out on a late-night odyssey that takes them deep into New Jersey. Somehow, the boys manage to run afoul of rednecks, cops and even a car-stealing Neil Patrick Harris before getting anywhere near their beloved sliders.

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Men in Black: International
2019 Β· dir. F. Gary Gray
πŸ… 23%β˜… 5.6comedy Β· science fiction Β· action

Both lean on play more than on science fiction

The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.

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