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The Sounds of Science this one ain't. Adventureland is a forthcoming comedy film from Greg Mottola (Superbad, a couple episodes of "Arrested Development") scheduled for release late in the summer. According to IMDB, the flick is set in 1987 and at an amusement park, and features key players from the "Saturday Night Live" and Apatow camps near the top of the bill.

IMDB says that Adventureland is "centered around a recent college grad who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world." And the star of this movie is none other than Ryan Reynolds. Yes, Ryan Reynolds, the genial blonde dummy from such films as Just Friends, Blade:Trinity, and Van Wilder.

The score for Adventureland will be provided by veteran Jersey trio Yo La Tengo. And there are very few things that wouldn't be improved with a little more YLT, right? Besides, it's not like "Yo La Tengo are scoring the new Ryan Reynolds movie" is the most surprising bit of news we've heard lately. This is.

Of course, this ain't the first time Yo La Tengo have hobnobbed with Hollywood elite. You'll recall their supporting role during She & Him's appearance on the "Conan O'Brien" program last week. (We hear they have a cameo in Zooey Deschanel's new film, Elf 2: The Elfening.) And they scored the Will Oldham-featuring movies Junebug and Old Joy.

Nor is Adventureland the only 2008 soundtrack to feature Yo La Tengo. Their cover of George McCrea's "You Can Have It All"-- from 2000's superb and then nothing turned itself inside out-- appears on the second volume of Juno music.

Yo La Tengo have a few live appearances scheduled for themselves in the coming months, with a trio of European stops in June and an appearance at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois' Pygmalion Music Festival off in September.

Yo La Tengo:

06-07 Seville, Spain - Territorios Festival
06-09 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo
06-13 Athens, Greece - Synch Festival
09-20 Champaign-Urbana, IL - Pygmalion Music Festival