The sequel to the 2010 hilarious Hot Tub Time Machine brings back Lou Dorchen (Rob Corddry), Nick Webber (Craig Robinson), and Jacob Dorchen (Clark Duke) but not Adam Yates (John Cusack) which was unfortunate but made out for some new interesting characters.

The first film follows a group of best friends who've become bored with their adult lives. Adam has been dumped by his girlfriend and his nephew Jacob won't leave his basement. Lou is a party guy who can't find the party anymore and was suicidal and Nick's wife controls his every move. After a crazy night of drinking at their favorite ski resort's hot tub they wake up in the year 1986 and hilarity ensues.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 was originally intended to be called Hot Tub Time Machine 3 as a reference to going into the future according to director Steve Pink. It was later discarded out of fear of people thinking they have missed the second installment and might be less interested in watching a third having not seen the second. The film begins with an episode of "American Success Story" documenting the lives of the main characters since the last movie. Lou Dorchen has become a mogul with his Lougle empire and his side band Motley Lou. Nick Webber has become a popular musician mainly because he's made hit songs from the present before the actual artists could make them themselves. Lou's son Jacob hates his dad and doesn't really want to be associated with him. Nick also mentions their buddy Adam Yates, who wrote a bestselling book and is currently going on a trip of self-discovery.

Nick is seen recording a music video for the song "Stay", which he ripped off of Lisa Loeb and incorporated his own lyrics. The real Lisa Loeb is seen in the film working as his cat wrangler and while walking by tells him that the song feels very personal to her. Later in the movie when he tries to come around and stop ripping off other artists, he writes his own music and invents his famous 'Webber Strut'. In a recent press conference Robinson shares where his inspiration came from relating that it came organically from this singer at a club, "one day I was at a club in LA and there she was, like going on, and then I start doing it with her...then I was about to do the 'Webber Strut' and they were, whatever you want it to be and then I was like, and so I was in a place needing that dance." He also shared where the lyrics of the song came recounting that, "we've cut a song that we liked, right, and we was like we have time before Steve gets here lets cut a BS song, right, and we'll play to Steven to watch his face, so we made the worst lyrics ever and I was playing all off key on video to Steve and he's like, this is really good and I was no Steve no and we ended up fusing those 2 songs together."

As Lou, an asshole as he's always been he's gone so far off course that he's now disliked by many including long time friend Nick and his son Jacob. Corddry describes his character as, "Lou's like a scientifically perfect virus, just there's no stopping him." Writer Josh Heald added, "we think of him as the unlikely moral center of this group because Lou always does come to a place by the end of both movies where he is looking out for somebody else's interest but himself." So Nick and Jacob are forced to save him when a mysterious villain shoots him in the genitals at one of his extravagant parties and off they go into the hot tub, which Lou has reconfigured for his own use at his estate, to solve the crime and save Lou.

This time the gang is trying to figure out what year they've stumbled into, so they turn on a television and discover an episode of The Daily Show. Coincidentally enough to Jon Stewart's real departure the same week the movie is airing, in the film Stewart is no longer hosting but instead Jessica Williams is the new host and they figured that the year is now 2025.

Adam Scott, who plays Cusack's son in the future offer some humor. There are some bro-humor especially with a number of "You look like..." gags that the cast attributed to pure genius improv.

There's also some clues as to whether John Cusack will be back to a possible sequel as the trench coat left by the hot tub where Heald attributed it to, "we did want to put it out there as a way of saying he didn't just disappear from this universe... he could be lost somewhere in time." But could there be more sequels from the Hot Tub Time Machine franchise? Clark Duke believes so and we as well want to see a Hot Tub Time Machine in the 1700's, as the ending indicates, and at a time when hot tubs weren't even invented. That resolution would be something to watch.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 in theaters now.