Lyndsy Fonseca Gets in the 'Hot Tub' With Cusack

Residing safely inside the "so crazy it just might work" neighborhood is the movie Hot Tub Time Machine, and the title explains almost all you need to know. The film stars John Cusack, who, along with his buddies, returns to 1987 with this assistance of a jacuzzi. Science: embrace it. The friends include Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson, and the movie also stars Crispin Glover and Lizzy Caplan. Now The Hollywood Reporter says that Lyndsy Fonseca from Big Love and How I Met Your Mother has signed onto the in-production project, playing Cusack's girl that got away back in '87.Will there be a young Cuse or will a 40-something guy be actively pining over a teenager? That would be really creepy, don't you think? United Artists will release the film in February, and I think all parties involved would be wise to watch the marketing and performance of The Hangover, which is also a slightly older buddy comedy. It helps that The Hangover is incredibly funny, but it certainly won't hurt to position Hot Tub Time Machine the same way, especially if, as expected, The Hangover is a big hit.

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[Dinky Fluffs Up The Opposition]

In reply to the previous post I just want to say, OK, easy. Audiences hate nothing more than seeing two different actors portray the same person: they never look a damn thing like each other and it's not like we're not being asked to believe in enough what with the time-travelling hot tub and all. It's bad enough when someone else usurps an actor's role in a sequel but in the same film - it's too horrific to comprehend. I just know that if some twenty-something desperately trying to grow his newly-sprouted facial hair and sucking on a twenty pack of Marlboro to try and add a little of that trademark husk plays a younger version of John Cusack's character it's going to irritate the hell out of me and many others. As for the fact that it might be creepy for Cusack - a man in his forties - to 'pine over' a teenager, for a start, it happens all the time, (just watch where your boyfriend looks the next time a teen in skin-tight jeans walks down the street) and yet again, the fact that there's a cauldron of hot, bubbling water that's mastered quantum mechanics - I think we might just pick up on the fact that it's not real. It's a film. Entertainment.

Looks to me like a film with the essence of 'The Hangover' (quite right previous poster) and a 'High Fidelity' like edge. Looks brilliant. I'll be in the front row.