Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Hugely raunchy and undeniably funny, with Cusack adding just a hint of sweetness.

Name : Amy Biancolli / Alias : Houston Chronicle
Tough going, for sure.

Name : Andrea Gronvall / Alias : Chicago Reader
Director Steve Pink offsets the satire with moments of genuine warmth.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Richard Roeper.com
Best title since "Snakes on a Plane" and consistent laughs throughout.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Don't try to teach me about life in a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine. Stick to the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. It's your destiny.

Name : Rick Groen / Alias : Globe and Mail
Hot Tub Time Machine is funnier than any movie called Hot Tub Time Machine has a right to be. And how funny is that? Not very, but a little.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
No masterpiece, perhaps, but Hot Tub Time Machine is post-pub perfection.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Hot Tub Time Machine simmers right along like so many Jacuzzi bubbles popping with a carefully calibrated mix of sight gags, sex jokes and baby boomer references.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Like the wonky Jacuzzi that gives the film its title and nutso travel mode, Hot Tub Time Machine operates in fits and starts.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
How bad must a movie be to be good fun? How dumb to be smart? Whatever the case, Hot Tub Time Machine doesn't make the cut.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
The name says it all.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Cusack, who self-deprecatingly mocks his iconic presence in '80s films like Say Anything, is terrific - with an especially wonderful, demented monologue in which he explains why he and his sister are so screwed up.

Name : Laremy Legel / Alias : Film.com
Well played, Hot Tub Time Machine, well played. You defied expectations, in a good way, and managed to evolve from "potentially silly concept" to "fairly funny film."

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
It's fun, it's sad, and it's kind of sad that it's so much fun.

Name : Ian Buckwalter / Alias : NPR
Admirably turns a potentially one-note joke into a consistently funny package.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
At times, this movie feels too much like the Christian version of "The Phantom Menace," offering unnecessary explanations for well-known stories.

Name : Dave White / Alias : TheWrap
Perhaps realizing that enticing nonbelievers into another movie about the life of Christ may necessitate the wild-style of a director like Darren Aronofsky, the filmmakers decided to play it safe rather than risk conservative Evangelical rejection.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
We know how the story ends, so there's little in the way of tension.

Name : Christian Holub / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The Young Messiah struggles to hold its audience's attention.

Name : Nick Schager / Alias : Variety
This pious drama is a work of minimal imagination and even less subtlety.

Name : Andy Webster / Alias : New York Times
"The Young Messiah" performs no miracles.

Name : Keith Uhlich / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
This uninspiring, borderline inept spiritual drama about the Son of God's formative years preaches to the choir.