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Time machines are popular devices in science fiction, and now a buddy comedy is using a hot tub time machine. When I was forwarded the link for the trailer I thought at first it was a joke.

But Hot Tub Time Machine is a legitimate film, directed by Steve Pink (Speechless, Accepted) . The cast is a bit surprising,
including John Cusack (2012), Rob Corddry (Children's Hospital), Craig Robinson (The Office), Clark Duke (Greek, Kick-Ass) and Lizzy Caplan (True Blood). I used to associate John Cusack with smarter films, even his comedies, but this looks disturbing like Wild Hogs and Old Dogs. There's even a Wild Hogs reference in the trailer!

With a Snakes on a Plane-type title, Hot Tub Time Machine doesn't bother trying to dress itself up as anything other than what it is. Although I find the yellow lights in the hottub a bit disturbing, but hey, it's a buddy comedy.

Check out the trailer after the jump.

Forget Avatar. John Cusack's Hot Tub Time Machine is shaping up to be the must-see sci-fi flick of 2010.

OK, so maybe it's not a "true" sci-fi flick -- it's a sci-fi comedy ala Ghostbusters or Back to the Future. So what? This thing's got a great cast, including Chevy Chase and Crispin Glover, it name-drops Stargate and Terminator in its first trailer, and it's about a frakkin' Hot Tub Time Machine!

Star/producer Cusack recently chatted with io9 about the upcoming comedy, which also stars Clark Duke, Craig Robinson and Rob Corddry as booze-addled buddies who travel back in time to the '80s. Cusack didn't match the enthusiasm of screenwriter Josh Heald, who called HTTM "the greatest gift anyone's ever given the world," but he promised it would be loaded with sex, drugs and '80s jokes.

"... We are cutting the film right now. But it's about four guys who go back to the 1980s," Cusack said. "... you know it's the 80s, it's got drugs and sex and all the things that you know..."

Last night Sony Pictures executed what is known as a "media roadblock", in which they blanketed all of the major broadcast networks and roughly 450 television stations in North America with a two-minute clip from Roland Emmerich's 2012. Apparently it was the largest media roadblock ever, and the projected audience was somewhere around 110 million. How many of those 110 million will actually show up to see this flick when it hits theaters on November 13th? That we do not know, but I think it's safe to say that Sony succeeded in making audiences aware of its existence.

Along with the two-minute clip that aired on television, a five-minute clip from the film has arrived online. I believe this is the same footage that was shown at Comic Con, and it features John Cusack frantically trying to get his loved ones out of California because, as he says, "California is going down!" (Ah, I love it -- Cusack channeling his inner Nicolas Cage. What's better than that?)

Watch the clip after the jump.