The haters are right; this movie stunk so bad, so bad, so grossly bad.
Bad.
The needed Cusack back and they needed to go back to the early 1990s, a period in time ripe for parody. It may have required a lot of research and outside of the box thinking, but that was the place they needed to explore. All they needed to do was dig up some old Time Magazines to get their juices flowing.