Characters in a movie saying the name of that movie is one of my favorite moments, perhaps second only to rappers rapping their own name or the name of their group, or bands referencing their own songs in a song. And what a coincidence, here’s a supercut that’s two minutes and forty seconds of just that (characters saying the movie titles, I mean). My favorite has to be Craig Robinson in Hot Tub Time Machine, because his breaking-the-fourth-wall deadpan is so perfect, and because “Hot Tub Time Machine” is cinema’s all-time greatest title. At least, it will be until “Hovercar 3D” comes out (yes, that’s a real project in development). I’m bringing a bike horn to that, just so I can blow it twice when one of the characters says, “Hovercar… 3D.” If no one says the title in that, I’ll demand my money back.

[via GorillaMask. See also: Movie Titles in Movies, Part 1]

This week, for three funny commenters, I’ve got copies of HOT TUB TIME MACHINE! (sorry, it’s hard not to type that title without caps and exclamation) to give away.  It hit stores ON DVD and BLU-RAY this Tuesday more stuffed full of special features than your mother at a buffet.

The Hot Tub Time Machine two-disc Blu-ray and DVD include over 10 additional minutes of unrated footage not seen in theaters. Both discs also feature deleted scenes, promotional spots and trailers and the Blu-ray includes a Digital Copy of the unrated version of the film.

It’s an honor to be able to give it away, because I thought it was pretty damn funny.  Oh right, I guess I should just tell you the winners.

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Tina Fey and Steve Carell’s Date Night took the top spot away from Clash of the Titans over the weekend, earning an estimated $27.1 million on the strength of solid reviews from critics who overwhelmingly called it, “Okay, I guess.”

Meanwhile, the critically-acclaimed How to Train Your Dragon rode Jay Baruchel’s nasally drone to a solid showing in number three with $25.3 million, and Tyler Perry’s latest half-assed Sunday-school lesson was a distant fourth, dropping like a rock, down 62% from its opening weekend showing for one of Tyler Perry’s steepest drops yet.  But hey, that’s why they’re called Lifetime movies of the week, right? And anyway, its $48 million gross so far is more than enough to earn back the 18 bucks they spent on it. Have you seen the poster?  Tyler Perry’s sporting that creepy grin because he’s thinking of the new muu muu he’s going to buy with all the money they saved  hiring the neighbor kid to Photoshop this thing.  And also because he’s a lunatic. Ten bucks says when he goes home, he puts on his Madea costume and molests himself.  

Elsewhere, Hot Tub Time Machine was all the way down at number seven, where its $36.9 million gross was just good enough to earn back its estimated production budget, but still a lot less than it deserves.  It was funny, dammit.  One slot higher than Bounty Hunter?  Did anyone even know that was still playing?  I’d say that I don’t want to live in a world where Bounty Hunter earns more than Hot Tub Time Machine, but the truth is, I don’t want people who see Bounty Hunter to live in a world where Bounty Hunter earns more than Hot Tub Time Machine.  That’s why I bought this blow torch.

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Opening this weekend:

Hot Tub Machine
Say what you will, nothing I’ve seen has done anything to diminish my enthusiasm for this movie based on the title alone.  And after this review, I’m pretty much sold.  I’m just glad I don’t have any stupid kids running around so I don’t have to see…

How to Train Your Dragon
When we were kids, our heroes weren’t necessarily the best looking or the most athletic guys, they were the guys who’d responded to their shortcomings by developing wit and interesting personalities.  Ferris Buellers and whatnot.  What I’m trying to say is, I’m sick of the sad, bitter, loser character in every f*cking movie now.  Oh, you’re poor and unathletic and you’re a wimpy kid with a diary who loves Beth Cooper?  Maybe if you shrug harder and feel sorry for yourself and act like a wounded prick, the world will just come around and you’ll be great some day.  What.  Does that not apply here?  I’ll be honest, I turned it off after 10 seconds of Jay Baruchel’s nasally drone.  And clearly, it’s a total rip off of…

Birdemic
I believe there are still a few tickets left for the midnight screenings tonight and tomorrow.  I will be there tonight, most likely drunk, in order to cheer on the movie Chodin called, “Like taking an egg yolk sh*t in a pair of scuba goggles and then wearing it around for an hour and a half.”  Yeah, I’m pretty miffed they haven’t used any quotes from Chodin’s review for anything yet.  I demand satisfaction.

UPDATE: Two more Birdemic showings have been added.
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Party Dog still wants to know where the bitches at

I haven’t seen Hot Tub Time Machine yet (or as I like to call it, “Hot Tub Time Machine: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”).  But especially after reading AO Scott’s review in the New York Times, I almost wish I didn’t have to put it off for another day to see Birdemic.

The undercurrent of misogyny and homophobic panic that courses through most arrested-development, guy-centric comedies these days is certainly present here. But unlike, say, “The Hangover,” which sweetens and sentimentalizes its man-child characters — allowing them to run wild and then run home to Mommy — “Hot Tub Time Machine” is honest in its coarseness and pretty tough on the fellows who are the agents and objects of its satire.

The cultural detritus piled up everywhere, to be recycled, cherished, mocked and travestied, provides small — but nonetheless real — compensation for the spiritual deficits of modern life.  Is it crazy to write that sentence in a review of “Hot Tub Time Machine”? Not really: the movie itself proves the point. [NY Time]

The use of five-dollar words, the scribe’s given name needlessly done up in pretentious initials — not to mention the  elaborate sentence construction — is it crazy to enjoy such things when one’s profession involves posting trailers to Jerry Bruckheimer movies accompanied by *fart*?  Perhaps.  But when it’s for a review of Hot Tub Time Machine, it’s pretty awesome.