17 Again Naomi I Don T Care
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Zac Efron grows upward as Matt Perry, tries once more; or, Zac to the Future
Mike O'Donnell's wife wants a divorce, his kids are remote, he didn't get the job promotion he expected, and everything else in his life has gone wrong since that magic year when he was 17, a basketball star, in love, and looked like Zac Efron instead of Matthew Perry. He's patently a example for handling by a Body Swap Movie.
Revisiting the trophy case at his old loftier school, Mike encounters a janitor who, from the manner he smiles at the camera, knows things beyond this mortal gyre. If simply Mike could go back to 17 and non make notwithstanding mistakes. In "17 Again," he can. He falls into a Twilight Zone vortex and emerges as Zac Efron. They say be conscientious what y'all wish for, because y'all might get it. Mike should have been more than specific. Instead of wishing to be 17 again, he should take wished to become back 20 years in time.
Yes, he becomes himself trapped within his own 17-yr-sometime body. Aforementioned wife, same kids, same bug. Every bit Former Mike getting divorced, he'd moved in with his all-time friend, Ned (Thomas Lennon), and now he throws himself on Ned's mercy: Will Ned pose equally his father, and so Young Mike can be his son and help out his kids by enrolling in the same high school again? Ned, who is a software millionaire and eye-age fanboy, agrees, especially after he falls helplessly in love with the high school principal, Jane (Melora Hardin).
Young Mike becomes the new best friend of his insecure son, Alex (Sterling Knight). Then he meets Alex'southward mom, Ruby (Leslie Isle of man), who, of form, before the vortex was his married woman, and before that his high school helpmate (Allison Miller). She thinks it's strange that he looks exactly like the boy she married at 17. He explains he is the son of an uncle, who I guess would have to be Old Mike's blood brother, and so it'south curious Quondam Blood-red never met him, but if she doesn't ask that, why should I?
In loftier school, Young Mike again becomes a basketball star, befriends Alex, and attempts to defend his Gothish daughter, Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg), against the predations of her jerk boyfriend, who every bit a hot-rodding jock traveling with a posse is, of grade, the last guy in schoolhouse who would appointment, or exist dated by, a moody girl who wears black.
I've seen Body Switches earlier (Tom Hanks in "Big"). The first act of this picture show seemed all retread. And so it started to dig in. There are twin romances; as Shakespeare demonstrated, one must be serious and the other farcical. Young Mike is still seriously in beloved with his wife, Sometime Scarlet, and she is powerfully attracted to this male child who'south a double for her first love. She thinks that'south wrong. He knows it isn't but how can he explain?
Meanwhile, all-time buddy Ned courts Principal Masterson, who for the first time in his life has Taught Him What Beloved Means. Before her, ecstasy was owning Darth Vader's costume. I will not draw what happens the commencement time they become out to dinner, except to say that information technology's comic genius, perfectly played by Melora Hardin and Thomas Lennon.
I attended a screening held past a radio station, which attracted mainly teenage girls who left their boyfriends behind. When Zac Efron took off his T-shirt, the four in front of me squealed equally if at that place were buzzers in their seats. Now that he'due south a piffling older, Efron has a Tom Cruiseish amuse, and a lot of confidence. Why Matthew Perry was cast every bit his adult cocky is hard to figure; does your head change its shape in 20 years?
"17 Once more" is pleasant, harmless PG-thirteen amusement, with a plot a picayune more surprising and acting a picayune better than I expected. Mike is dispatched into that vortex by the bearded one-time janitor with a delighted grinning. The janitor (Brian Doyle-Murray) is quite a convenience, supplying vortexes when needed. If his smiling reminds you of anyone, he's played by Nib Murray'due south brother.
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his expiry in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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17 Again (2009)
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