Craig Robinson Visited the TODAY show and Improvised on the “Hot Tub” Song; Critics Panned the Movie

Hot Tub Machine actor Craig Robinson visited the TODAY show on Feb 18 to talk about his upcoming movie and the actor showed off his skills in the piano while improvising the "Hot Tub" song.

Paramount Pictures' Hot Tub Time Machine 2, the sequel to the 2010 box office hit Hot Tub Machine, opened in theaters on Friday, February 20. Directed by Steve Pink from Josh Heald's script, the sci-fi comedy movie will take off after the events shown in the first film. It is rated 'R' by the MPAA because of some of its crude sexual content and language throughout, graphic nudity, drug use and some violence.

Since its showing, critics panned the movie and had received mostly negative reviews, holding a 13% rating with Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critical consensus reads, "A shallow dip overflowing with juvenile humor, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is a lukewarm sequel that's healthiest to avoid." Box office wise, the movie earned $2.4 Million yet from a budget of $ 14 million.

According to the film's summary, with their knowledge of the future, Nick (Craig Robinson) and Lou (Rob Corddry) have managed to make themselves rich. Nick was able to rip off songs from artists before they were originally released while Lou capitalized on advance knowledge of tech developments to turn himself into 'the father of the Internet.' At a party in Lou's honor, he gets shot by an unknown assassin. Nick and Jacob (Clark Duke) decides to use the time traveling hot tub to try to get back to the past to learn who shot Lou and undo the damage. Inadvertently, they instead end up ten years in the future. Jacob then reasons out that the assassin came from the future, which they must alter if they were to save their present.