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Second Chance in Life
In 1989, the teenager Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is the star of the Hayden High-School. On the day of the final basketball game, Mike will be observed and may win a scholarship in college. Nonetheless, his girlfriend Scarlett (Allison Miller) tells him that she is pregnant and Mike does not play the game. Twenty years subsequently, Mike (Matthew Perry) is a complete loser that blames Scar for his failures: he is non promoted to sale director later working sixteen years in the same company; Scarlett (Leslie Isle of mann) is divorcing him; his teenagers son Alex (Sterling Knight) and daughter Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg) detest him; and he is temporarily living with his best friend, the eccentric and immature millionaire Ned Gold (Thomas Lennon). Mike nostalgically visits Hayden where an old janitor talks to him near second risk in life. During the dark, he sees the janitor jumping from a bridge into the river and he unsuccessfully tries to help the man. Mike passes out and when he wakes upward, he discovers that he is seventeen over again. Further, he discovers that he has a 2nd chance to fix his relationship with his family.
"17 Once again" is another good film well-nigh second chance in life. I believe well-nigh of people in a sure age question decisions took in the past and would like to have a second gamble to re-road his or her life in that milestone. The movie theater makes this dream come truthful and certainly the story is pleasant for nearly of the people. In addition, the two lead stars (Zac Efron and Matthew Perry) are nice actors and the result is a prissy entertainment for whole family unit. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "17 Outra Vez" ("17 Again")
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Zac Efron, a adept actor? Who knew?!
Equally we've seen many movies like this before: Large, 13 Going on 30, and Freaky Friday, we always love to see the retelling of the old classic story of the switching age. Since the story has been used and then much, a director can simply do so much to simply exercise the best they tin with, Burr Steers pulls 17 Again out with great laughs and good fun. I'm going to get this out, I am i of the rare girls that but doesn't get the whole Zac Efron eye throb thing, I hold that he'south cute, merely with mainly Loftier Schoolhouse Musical merely existence his claim to fame other than Hairspray, he is adorable, only can he act? Surprisingly… he tin. I can't believe I'grand saying this, he was really a expert strong lead role and a perfect fit, he has charisma, he's funny, charming and makes this story worth your time and coin.
In 1989, Michael O'Donnell was a star athlete with a total college scholarship imminent. He seemingly had information technology all, when, right earlier the championship game, his girlfriend Scarlett informed him she was pregnant. In that moment, he made the decision to throw everything abroad and proposed to her. Twenty years later, Mike's life isn't exactly what he expected information technology to exist. Scarlett wants a divorce from him, forcing him to move in with his geeky millionaire best friend Ned, his job is going nowhere, and his kids Maggie and Alex want nothing to do with him. While paying a visit to Hayden Loftier Schoolhouse to reminisce about the life he threw away, he encounters a strange beardy janitor, who I still swear is Bob Haskins. On the way home, is magically transformed back into his 17-year old cocky. With Ned posing equally his father, he re-enrolls in high school, believing he has been given the run a risk to have his life over again, "but to practice it correct". Notwithstanding, he and then discovers that his daughter is dating the basketball game captain Stan, who is bullying his son. He realizes that his real mission is to help his children as well as finding out that maybe his decision wasn't the worst he ever made in his life.
We go a picayune Back to the Futurity-esquire when we go on the creepy level of Michelle Trachtenberg having a crush on Zac Efron who is her father, just that she tin't recognize him, it'southward understanding, simply still makes you squirm, but the managing director and actors pulled the scene off pretty well with getting out of that yucky situation. There is one continuity error: if Mike and his girl got pregnant at the age of 17... twenty years later on, even so both their kids are even so in high school, the oldest child would only exist a maximum of 18. A plot pigsty: seriously, as well the wife, no one at all recognizes Mike? But I'm over thinking the movie too much at this point, it's only a fun movie with decent performances, I just need to allow get of silly mistakes. And so I would recommend this movie if you get the chance to see it, but I'd say more of a matinée vs. a full price ticket, information technology has some good laughs and was a swell update of the "What if you could go back?" story.
7/10
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Pleasantly surprised.....
I went to encounter this with motion picture with my teenage daughter and really wasn't expecting to savor it. I settled downward in my seat for the duration and the beginning few scenes showing Efron as a high school basketball actor had me groaning inwardly every bit I assumed that this was going to exist another anticipated high school/age swap motion-picture show of the type that has been done so many times earlier - and actually isn't the sort of pic I would choose to see anyway. Not a promising starting time. However, I was pleasantly surprised past 17 Again. Information technology was witty and well acted and fabricated me express joy out loud - not something I often exercise even when I appreciate the sense of humor in a film.
This pic'due south appeal is also strengthened by the acting of the supporting characters too equally the main ones - Thomas Lennon's character was particularly well delivered. I constitute no fault with Zac Efron'south interim in this and I enjoyed his performance in Hairspray merely information technology would be interesting to run across him in a serious grown up dramatic function.
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Why the bad reviews?
Why does this movie have but a half dozen? Is it considering of Efron?
I idea this movie was only smart and not lacking in any way. The script was hilarious and had a full good plot line, the casting was great (Zac Efron really made you believe he was married with children... looking 17!) and even the smaller roles were really peachy additions.
I've seen this movie thrice and trust me, it's not only for Efron (which I assume is why people are hating on it - stop the bias!), it's genuinely well written, directed, acted... etc.
Brilliant! Will see again... 17 Again.
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Pleasantly Surprised
The storyline was very well done and enjoyable. I was pleasantly surprised at this picture. Keep an open listen and you volition enjoy the movie.
Zac Efron did a actually decent acting task. I honestly thought it would be High School Musical-similar but it turned out to be a squeamish movie to picket. If he keeps up the expert piece of work and takes it to the next level, he tin can really exist an A level quality star. Zac is no Matthew Macfadden yet but at that place is potential.
There are two recasts I would have done. Matthew Perry wasn't fully right for this role. He has a comedic bent but it wasn't used at all in this movie - hence a total waste matter and was a mismatch from a grapheme perspective. I remember John Stamos would have been better. Also Michelle Trachtenberg playing the teenager was a flake much. Trachtenberg is a solid actress but for a teenager, a different actress would have been meliorate.
It is a very nice movie and I usually charge per unit a movie on whether it'southward worth paying total price, matinée, video shop, Netflix or don't bother. The movie was worth paying total price.
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Probably the all-time body swap picture show to come out for awhile
Every teen generation needs a skilful trunk bandy/turn the clock dorsum type of story and 17 again is one of those stories, Mike O'Donnell had it all. He was the star of his loftier schools basket ball team. He had Cerise the most beautiful daughter in the school as his girlfriend. Correct before the game that could make him into a star, Scarlet tells Mike she's significant, Mike makes a drastic and life altering conclusion and runs out of the game to exist with her giving up his chances of becoming a basket ball star, now 20 years afterward Mike's regretting it all and wishes he could do information technology all over again, and by some miraculous fashion he does.
17 again is a cool and stylish what if pic, it brings to light the question of what if you could alter your life, if you could alive it all over once again.What would you practice different? That'due south the question this movie propose and tells with a 1000 lush mode that resonates with the teen population and even with the adults also, 17 again is not only some teen picture show, it's a movie that even adults between the ages of 30-50 would savor it, my dad certain did. Merely this picture has information technology's flaws and some very minor bad dialogue from Zack Efron simply nix that would hamper this films fashion or production, just in my honest stance this film was very good, this movie is not Oscar worthy simply information technology'southward definitely worth the cost of admission.
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A genuinely good teen motion-picture show. Something this generation has been lacking...
I've just returned from the movie theater after watching this film and I have to say, my friends and I laughed like a bunch of hyenas (probably to the annoyance of anyone behind usa) all the way through it. The story of class is aught original, but you lot knew that going in, and yes, there are some seemingly ridiculous or stereotypical character setups, over again acknowledged beforehand, but the direction and the acting, more than makes up for this. Most of the actors, peculiarly Efron, who proves he's definitely not simply a wanna-be pretty boy and actually stores abroad some talent, play their parts well. Matthew Perry seemed slightly misplaced, fifty-fifty if he was the reason I went to encounter the movie in the starting time place. Not to mention the manager beingness Burr Steers who directed one of my favourite films. I could kind of tell how in the wrong hands this movie could take been embarrassingly bad, only Steers manages to balance the right amount of comedy with drama and turn it into something really worth seeing. Efron blew me away. I accept to say, I didn't see it coming, and I never idea I'd say such a sentence, but this male child tin do amend than Idiot box Disney movies. I'm kind of glad he has turned downwardly re-make, Fancy-free, not simply because it'due south a 're-brand of footloose'.
On the negative side of things the writing lacked in terms of Marker'south human relationship with his daughter. The daughter didn't really seem to accept a personality, now I'm non totally sure if this is down to Trachtenbergs terrible interim (one of very petty who deliver poor performances actually) or poor character evolution but something was wrong at that place.
I don't really charge per unit the cinematography, but I don't think information technology's something to exist taken quite seriously in teen films. Information technology's all almost the characters and the comedy - simply what was up with that epitome of Zac correct before 'Marking' falls into the water? Some interesting choices of music. One of the funniest movies I've seen in a while. Quite moving and Mark is a much more 3 dimensional, well developed character than most PG-13 rated movies you see. I genuinely cared most him, where as, even in Mean Girls, (which is particularly hilarious and legendary as far every bit contemporary teen films go) I didn't intendance too much for whatsoever of the characters. It's probably because this film went that little flake further than about and took itself seriously, if only for parts of the movie. It makes a big difference.
So, yeah, '17 Again', adequately well written, hilarious, well and sometimes greatly acted and awesome direction for the most role, and a genuinely good, enjoyable and moving film. Accept a look and you'll probably be surprised... but don't get in hoping for annihilation Oscar worthy. I go the impression in that location is only so much a director can practise with a film similar '17 Again' and he did it alright.
Trustworthy director and impressive pb, I'd say. Tin can brand all the difference.
p.s. I'd as well lookout man out for that Sterling Knight role player - he plays Marks awkward son. He gave a genuinely skilful operation also.
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It made me express joy to the Brim!
17 Again was nothing I expected. The trigger that made me actually go and watch it in the Movie house was the fact that the jokes shown on the trailers were hilarious. The film was amend.
I was laughing and so much, that I missed in between dialogue by some of the characters and it was the perfect film to assist you unwind after doing a days worth of work or revision.
When the opening scene started, I was so worried that the whole flick was going to turn out as some kind of adaptation of high schoolhouse musical and at that place'd exist a song every 15 minutes. But it wasn't the instance.
This Movie really proved that Efron is not an Amateur who merely dances and sings a lot. It proved he is a skilled Actor and his acting brought back memories of Chandler in Friends. In some places, he seemed so much similar Matthew Perry which is difficult to pull off for most Amateur actors.
The only reason I didn't give this movie a 10 out of x is because some people I watched this movie with believed it had an 'precipitous ending' only I thought yous can't have too much of a good thing.
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It was better than I expected
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Then I saw an avant-garde screening. I didn't await much, merely information technology was actually pretty proficient! It might be a plot line that has been seen a lot, but this one is actually entertaining. People have compared it to "xiii going to 30" but trust me, this one is much ameliorate. It has comedy and drama, my sister teared upward in one part. Thomas Lennon is pretty funny, Leslie Homo always the scene stealer and of class Zac Efron. HE Tin can Human activity. If y'all didn't think he was hot before expect until y'all watch the flick and acts similar a real person, not a goody goody fake teenager from "High Schoolhouse Musical" though he was the best performer in that movie (I'one thousand non antisocial on High School Musical I constitute it entertaining.) I recommend "17 Again" for adults and mature children.
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17 Again was a pretty enjoyable comedy for teens and some adults
tavm 21 Apr 2009
This is another movie I watched with my friend who works at a cinema. With elements of Big and 13 Going on 30, not to mention It'south a Wonderful Life and Back to the Futurity, 17 Again is a pretty enjoyable meshing of those movies considering the bandage which has Zac Efron, Michelle Trachtenberg, Leslie Isle of man, Margaret Cho, Thomas Lennon, and Melora Hardin. I too recognized Matthew Perry and Nicole Sullivan. I did not realize until the cast credits that the bearded janitor at the high schoolhouse was Brian Doyle-Murray, Pecker's brother. Now, parts of the plot and characterizations were a little uneven just despite that there were plenty of scenes that were hilarious especially those between Lennon and Hardin. With them, I besides saw a little "Big Blindside Theory" vibe. Oh, and at that place's a trivial touching pro-abstinence speech here too (though it still is acknowledged that not all teens will feel that way). All in all, despite some adult sense of humour, 17 Again was an enjoyable comedy that should be enjoyable enough for parents and offspring akin. Oh, and i more affair: I idea the Vanilla Ice reference in the 1989 sequence didn't fit since I retrieve him not even emerging until the post-obit yr...
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Crawly performance from Zac Efron
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At first glance this appears to be a film that volition primarily attract fans of High School Musical, i.east. the most part teenage or young girls, merely don't get me wrong every bit they will brand up a large proportion of the fans of this picture, but I experience this picture has a lot more to offer. It may possess a somewhat predictable storyline that nosotros accept seen a couple of times before, just if you are looking for a lighthearted film to keep you entertained throughout, this will do the job. Zac Efron shows united states he is more than the "all-singing-all-dancing" charmer from Loftier School Musical, he nails this performance. His character is conceivable throughout showing audiences he is a true actor, not a franchise and will hopefully lose some of the stigma he attracted in the function of Troy Bolton. Co-stars also merely in a good functioning including Matthew Perry although not getting much air time notwithstanding played a valid part in the film as an entirety. Great lookout for all the family, I definitely recommend this i!
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Really surprisingly skilful!
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I went into this a lilliputian dubious, unable to become tickets for anything else simply set on seeing something - I walked out glad nothing was available! Beginning off, the casting is brilliant with the teenage and developed versions of each of the main 3 characters. Secondly, it proves that Zac Efron really tin can human activity, not only sing, dance and play basketball (although they do flaunt the latter two talents of these within the showtime ten minutes). Finally, it's original. Although reminding me, and probably everyone who'southward reading this, of films like Freaky Friday, 13 Going On 30, Big, etc, just beingness the opposite style in age, it really makes adept use of the comedy this state of affairs brings, but doesn't rely on it or overplay on information technology.
Basically, as long equally you lot're not an Efron-hater, you should walk out of this film not feeling at all ashamed that you'd just watched a film with over 100 x to fourteen year old girls!
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Okay, I liked "17 Over again"
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"17 Again" has been done before in "Big", "thirteen Going On 30" and one of my favorite movies, "The Kid". That beingness said: I actually liked "17 Once more". This is a star vehicle for teen heart-throb Zac Efron. Okay, the movie opens cheesy with ripped Efron shooting baskets in 1989 as high school star betoken guard Mike O'Donnell, highly recruited by colleges. Efron also impresses in a trip the light fantastic toe number with the cheerleaders. It'south a good kind of cheese.
In director Burr Steers and author Jason Filardi's "17 Again" older Mike (sympathetic Matthew Perry) gets a chance to be 17 over again with the help of spiritual guide Janitor (Brian Doye-Murray). Efron is really adept here displaying amuse, humor, and surprising depth and pity. There is a scene where the young Mike (Efron) consoles his daughter Maggie (vulnerable Michelle Trachtenberg) over her heartbreak, "When you're immature everything seems like it'south the finish of the world, but it'south non…" "17 Over again" has a certain bitter sweet and affirming resonance. In a low-cal hearted manner "17 Once more" is about the choices nosotros make in life and how we foster greatness for the ones we love. "17 Again" works, because of the solid Efron and the amazing Leslie Mann as Mike'south estranged wife Scarlett.
Mike (Perry) is currently living with his wealthy high schoolhouse bud Ned (hysterical Thomas Lennon). Ned is the genius, who invented the software that prevents music piracy, and also the guy who made piracy possible. Mike's wife Scarlett (Leslie Mann) has filed for divorce, and he barely knows his two teenage kids Maggie (Trachtenberg) and Alex (Sterling Knight). Mike has a chore he hates. Later on a devastating solar day at work Mike visits his high school that Maggie and Alex now attend. He expresses his yearning to exist 17 over again in his celebrity days to the Janitor (Doyle-Murray). Having water ice cream with his kids, he finds out the Maggie got into Georgetown and Alex lies to him about trying out for the basketball team.
There is a wonderful scene as Leslie Mann discards Mike'due south belongings in a wood chipper. Mike confesses, "I have been so disappointed with my life…" Isle of mann's Scarlett has had to endure this for 18 years of marriage. Mike said he felt obligated. Broken hearted Scarlett concedes, "Don't do me whatever favors." From here "17 Again" charts a familiar form equally Mike becomes the 17 year-old Efron. What keeps it in engaging is Mike's epiphany that his travel back is really about "helping Alex and Maggie". Mike discovers that Alex is a punching boy for bully Stan (jerky Hunter Parrish), who is helm of the basketball team. Stan is likewise Maggie'due south fellow. Alex is really a great kid with a good 3 signal shot, and sweet on head cheerleader Nicole (pretty Josie Lopez). Maggie is the smart and big hearted teen defining herself in the globe. Both Knight and Trachtenberg are authentic and very good.
The supporting performances are stiff. Thomas Lennon every bit Ned is hilarious and charmingly nerdy. His Jedi Knight duel with immature Mike (Efron) is hysterical. Ned as well poses as Mike'south Dad. Ultimately this works as he pursues the angel of the stunning and funny Melora Hardin as Principal Masterson. I was dying when Lennon and Hardin were talking in Tolkien Elfish at dinner.
We stick with the movie, because of Efron and Mann, who are compelling and brandish a goofy and touching chemistry. Efron is adept looking and mannerly. Isle of man is smart, sexy, and funny. There is a funny sequence as Mann tells Efron that she is not into the whole "cougar" and "Mothers I like to…" deal. Efron has a moment of solace as his Mike sees the beautiful garden Scarlett designed. The two take a lot of fun with an inappropriate tango of sorts. It's this kind of spirit, fun and touching humanity that brand "17 Again" so entertaining and worth watching.
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Gotta Love A Zac Efron Movie
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This story certainly was different, Mike being given a chance to get back and alter his mistake to fix his futurity it's nice to see this being told as him becoming his teenage self instead of being sent back in time like most movies.
Zac Efron I recall did an amazing job playing this character especially since he had to act like a dad who has turned dorsum into his teens and watch out for his kids.
Does get weird at i betoken betwixt Zac's Character and the daughter simply bated from that this moving-picture show has ever made me laugh and I will e'er relish this movie and definitly recommend it if yous want a funny movie night.
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Mediocrity at its best...
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I was invited to this movie by my Dad'south girlfriend and since I wanted to be supportive, I came and hey...costless picture show. So as expected, me and my Dad were perchance 2 of 8 guys in a sea of teenage girls which was kind of embarrassing/hilarious. Anyway, 17 Again is mediocrity in its almost boiled downward form. The moving picture is well-nigh how Chandler Bing decides he hates his life at present and is magically transformed into Zac Efron by Brian Doyle Murray as a corpulent janitor. At present mind you he doesn't go back in time...he'southward only 17 once again in the same time. Then he ends up going back to school and learning very important lessons regarding his family. Costarring Leslie Mann (who I love) as Chandler Bing'due south married woman and Michelle Trachtenberg (who has a rockin' heinie), 17 Again features a couple good laughs, a anticipated plot, and one particularly emotionally charged, well acted scene from Zac Efron. Basically, this moving-picture show could've been a lot better.
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Has Hollywood ran out of good ideas?
I truly take go more convinced that Hollywood has been bankrupt of good ideas or good filmmakers who are in touch with what the audition really desire to encounter. Slow, unimaginative, and completely lacking of good film-making. This film clearly prove a consummate lack of passion and vision. Information technology imitates what others have so brilliantly forged but still falls flat. Burr Steers? Can someone say the emperor has no clothes? I would accept loved to accept been sitting in that studio/executive'southward office during the pitch for this concept. Why were they not thrown out on their behind, I will never know. What do they expect when they starting time with a very lame script, and then rent a completely inadequate managing director, Burr Steers, who does not know the craft if information technology were fed to him with a silverish spoon. But look, I think that is exactly how he got his job...non his skill but his inner connections. The agent for Zac should exist fired for choosing such a vehicle to launch his rise into a leading man. Burr steers should never go near one-act again or fifty-fifty near film-making in full general.
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We've all seen this movie before!
I'one thousand starting to doubtable that Hollywood no longer uses actual, homo screenwriters to create their movies. Afterwards watching years of the aforementioned, recycled trash, I'm starting to think that they now use a screenplay-writing machine to do it.
This machine works very simply. A producer will enter the main graphic symbol's name, one problem they are facing, and i 'gimmick' (an unusual plot twist often used as a selling point for the film), and hey presto! - out pops a completed, and entirely unoriginal screenplay. Such is the example for 17 Again.
Mike O'Donnell is a depressed suburban father (sounds familiar already, doesn't information technology?) whose wife is divorcing him, kids can't stand him, and who only got passed over for a promotion. Equally the flick progressed, it started to seem very, very familiar - a crippling combination of unoriginal jokes, stereotypical characters and recycled plot devices. My friends and I started to smile and sneeringly judge what was going to happen later in the film, and judge what: most of the time, we were right.
We've all seen this movie before - it's been pieced together from the discarded carcasses of films past, by a flock of vultures seemingly so unaccustomed to originality in film-making that they have been rendered unable to create any plot twist fifty-fifty slightly unexpected or interesting. And don't even get me started on Zac Efron'due south acting (or lack of such).
2 small good things. Out of the dozens of jokes thrown at us, a select few - maybe v - were genuinely hilarious. Other than that, though, the sense of humour relied on the the faux-improvised, overly-awkward style of comedy popularized by Seth Rogen and co. Information technology doesn't piece of work here. The other highlight, of course, was Matthew Perry. He'due south the man, and an excellent comic actor, merely his short on-screen time was non enough to salvage this unoriginal, unfunny, and worst of all boring attempt at light entertainment. Perhaps if the film had eliminated the dramatic aspects and stuck to existence a comedy, it could have succeeded, but this is ane movie I certainly would non want to run across again.
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From Wildcat To Warrior
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When I went and saw 17 Again and the film opened with Zac Efron in a basketball uniform shooting baskets for a minute I thought I was at High School Musical iv. But in fact it was non a bad comedy/drama in which Efron and Matthew Perry play the same character at different points of their lives.
Back in 1989 Zac looked like he had it made, academy scholarship for basketball game in the offing when girl friend Allison Miller tells him she'due south pregnant. That takes his head out of the game real fast and the two of course go married.
Fast forward to the present and the couple now played by Matthew Perry and Leslie Mann are carve up and she's filing for divorce. When a young girl who was probably bedding the boss at his job gets a promotion, that tears if for him. Perry makes a wish that he could be young again and accept a second hazard at life. A very strange janitor who is a guardian angel grants his wish and he's now Zac Efron again, this time in 2009.
And so similar Joe Boyd who became Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, Perry is at present young and Zac Efron again. But he's also bringing 20 years of real life feel to high schoolhouse and he becomes a guardian affections himself to his 2 children there, Michelle Trachtenberg and Sterling Knight.
Although some compare 17 Again to It'south A Wonderful Life, I call back it stands better comparison to Damn Yankees and the Faust legend, except that information technology'due south a good angel and not the devil that's granting the wish. And of grade his soul is no danger.
Melora Hardin is around and playing the role of 1 of the foxiest school principals I've ever seen on pic. She's the object of the affection of Thomas Lennon who was the school nerd and Efron's friend, similar Screech Powers to Zack Morris. As a kid he's played by Tyler Steelman. Steelman was the school nerd and then, merely equally an adult and Thomas Lennon he'southward a super rich guy, but withal friends with the guy who protected him back in the 24-hour interval.
I was expecting a teen sex one-act and I have to admit to being pleasantly surprised with how good 17 Once again was. I highly recommend to audiences of all ages. And Zac Efron's fans of all ages.
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The land of defoliation....
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CHUGA CHUGA CHUGA - The Hollywood movie motorcar cranks out another gem, haven't I seen this same script about 34 times? I'll kickoff with this, why does no one recognize the 17 twelvemonth former version of Mike, not his girl or son, best friend from HS or ex motorbus? Zac is a good looking guy with a memorable face, seriously, hasn't everyone seen pictures of their parents when they were teens? Wouldn't yous recognize them? And his wife of xx years does not hear a difference in his voice on the telephone fifty-fifty though we all exercise? And then he introduces himself to his own son every bit the son of his uncle, this must non be a very close family.
In what globe does a bigger guy and captain of the basketball team stand effectually to mind to a soliloquy tearing him downwards. In my high schoolhouse large guy would have pummeled lilliputian Zack into a pulp.
Why is older Mike vi inches taller than younger Mike? In the film's outset he'south nearly vii inches taller then his wife to-be in high school but as an adult she is the same height every bit 17 yr onetime Mike, wow! I gauge we're supposed to believe that after historic period 17 non simply did Mike grow 6 inches just his petite girlfriend grew 7, that'south some growth spurt so late in life, practice they live next door to a nuclear ability found?
Mike keeps on stopping past their house simply the irresponsible Mother never calls the uncle to meet where he lives or how he of a sudden plant his 17 yr old long lost son? Young Mike has an event with his wife going out on a date but doesn't notice it creepy that she is flirting with (fifty-fifty though it's really him) her 17 yr erstwhile nephew.
And seriously, all the guys out in that location, if you suddenly found yourself looking similar you did at 17 with the mind of a 37 yr old wouldn't one of the first things y'all'd do include going afterward young women???? But he completely ignores them. As well why is he in the same class equally his daughter who would be ii years older than him if he had her at 18 and he is 37 when he changes.
How does the mother know where the political party is, and she comes to get her son to what, embarrass him? Then the primary and her husbands best friend show up, merely then who is the uncle we've never seen because that's not him merely then, only.....man am I confused.
Bottom line - Why do all modern high school age flicks all require you to suspend all disbelief in reality? Poor script, OK acting, if it could accept made sense it might have been OK, but no big loss, they volition pump out more of the same drivel in a couple months.
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Very cute, go figure
I took two teenage girls to see this, and I have to say that we all enjoyed it.
Since the time of Charles Dickens and probably earlier, characters have been going dorsum to their past in one form or some other, or seeing the future, or finding out what life would take been like for others if they weren't around. Hollywood isn't the identify lately for much besides special furnishings, remakes, and rehashes. The footing for this story - reliving the past - has been used dozens of times - off the top of my head, "Repeat Functioning" from 1947, remade as a TV moving picture in 1990, Large, 13 Going on xxx, Back to the Future, Peggy Sue Got Married, etc.
"17 Again" doesn't break whatsoever new ground, merely neither is it an embarrassment. In fact, quite the contrary. It's very witty with good acting and skilful characters. Matthew Perry plays Mike O'Donnell, a father of two who's simply lost his task and is about to be divorced. He returns to his sometime high school and is reliving his glory days, when he blew his chance at a basketball scholarship to higher. On the solar day the scouts were at the schoolhouse to watch a game, he found out his girlfriend was significant and left the game to declare his love for her and propose marriage. While looking at a photo of his old team, he meets a janitor who says he bets Mike would similar to exist back in high school. Later on, in "Information technology's a Wonderful Life" style (I prefer to think of this as an homage rather than a rip-off), Mike sees the janitor jump off of a span and jumps in to save him. Mike climbs out of the water, and he's Zac Efron, something I'm sure a lot of both old and immature men wish could happen to them. He soon realizes he hasn't been given this souvenir to re-do his life. He's 17 over again for some other reason entirely.
Efron, Thomas Lennon, Matthew Perry, Michelle Trachtenberg, Melora Hardin, Leslie Mann, and Nicole Sullivan all give excellent performances, with Lennon'south character definitely beingness the showiest and near fun. Because he's young, expert-looking, and a Disney star, many people (ordinarily men) dislike Zac Efron on principle and dismiss him as a pretty boy, something that befell a classic star whom he resembles, Tyrone Ability (and if you don't retrieve he looks like Power, I direct you to http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3601/3365080372_709edf1dac_o.jpg). Power had a trouble getting challenging roles. The heavy duty teen idol type of thing, to which Efron falls victim, came forth in the '50s. Efron'due south road will be tougher, just he has the talent to pull out of the teen idol genre - dropping out of Footloose was a good first footstep.
All in all, adept fun. I just wish Hollywood would come upward with something a little more than original, even if it'due south only once in a while.
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Allow's push button some pills my peeps … 17 Once again
Warning: Spoilers
Consummate with a cast of notable faces and a stellar soundtrack featuring The Virgins, Santogold, and The Kooks, my initial trepidation was pushed bated equally I decided to get into this "spiritual journey" mish-mash with an open mind. I'thousand glad I did, because there are some genuinely funny moments along with a sweet and touching overall message. Yet, when you look deep into the work you will not find much to grasp onto below the surface. It'southward been seen before; the relationship between young-over again begetter and his high school children gets beyond creepy; and everything happens merely as you'd assume it would. There are no surprises, but did you really retrieve at that place would be? The film is all about Mike O'Donnell, a soon to be 40 year old who has been looking back on his life with regret. As the star basketball actor in loftier schoolhouse, he chose love and family above a run a risk to play in, or even go to, college. The by xx years take been a chore of responsibility he never could own up to despite his cute wife and two children. When divorce proceedings commence and he sees once and for all how little his kids see him equally a father figure, he comes in contact with Brian Doyle-Murray's janitor who sends him back, in trunk non fourth dimension, to rediscover why he made the option he did. What is initially looked upon as a chance to be the hero on the court again becomes an opportunity to help his kids confronting the angst and horrors of high school—becoming a hero in his home life, the path he chose back when he was actually seventeen.
It all begins enjoyably every bit we run across this hotshot kid, (Efron's young Mike to Matthew Perry's adult version), do pretty much whatever he wants—he is the nearly popular boy in school—even being best friends with the biggest dork their age. I've only seen Efron in i other film, Richard Linklater's criminally unreleased Me and Orson Welles, and he was very good in information technology. What worked in that film is my one criticism of him here, and that is the fact that he looks like he is interim. For a very theatrical office in Welles, it fit perfectly, here, nonetheless, in a world that is supposed to be natural, he but doesn't quite have the skills even so. The power to be skilful in a few years is there, but correct now I believe his charisma carries him. And that isn't a bad matter. I actually actually enjoyed the moments when his "developed cocky" came through in his deportment and speech after the transformation takes place. The child is definitely enjoyable to scout.
The real success, though, are performances from Thomas Lennon and Leslie Mann. Mann is in her element with this role; very similar to those her husband Judd Apatow usually casts her to play. Something virtually this adult female merely works in portraying the bonny female parent whatever guy would be insane to let go away. As for Lennon, well his accented crazy applesauce steals each scene he is a part of. As the grown-up version of Mike's friend Ned, he is a rich computer programmer that collects and lives in the fantasy/comic worlds he grew up idolizing. When Efron'due south Mike comes in the business firm unknown, the two partake in a massive fight scene complete with mace and shield as well as a fun lightsaber dual. But where he really shines is in interactions with high schoolhouse Principal Masterson, played by "The Part's" Melora Hardin. Once we discover her true internal workings and Lennon ceases his "peacocking", the two of them cause massive laughter in their creepiness.
But that is the "skillful" creepiness. In that location is a lot of bad to go with it, much to the detriment of the movie. The inherent trouble of having a father get the age of his children and try and help them make the basketball team, (Sterling Knight), and practice abstinence, (Michelle Trachtenberg), is that he will go best friend and/or love interest to them respectively. Then there are the pedophilic tendencies of Mann's mother towards Efron, (even though they are technically married), and what is unavoidable becomes used front and center for jokes. Unfortunately those jokes are of the uncomfortable kind, the audience tin can't get their heads effectually the fact a seventeen yr old is striking on a forty twelvemonth former or a daughter trying to make out with her father. That's correct … creepy.
Couple that awkwardness with the sheer predictability of it all, 17 Again becomes just a run-of-the-mill teen comedy. I did really similar the message at its core, that selflessness and the ability to dear outweigh any dreams of grandeur for fiscal or popular success. Sometimes information technology just takes longer for some—I'm not certain twenty years is a credible length of time, but the writer did need to make the kids of historic period—or an consequence to push them back into the reality of how great their life is. I likewise liked certain scenes like that of Efron verbally abusing slap-up Stan, ("Weeds's" Hunter Parrish), in the lunch room, as well as his trying to help the Health teacher become her point across afterwards passing out condoms—there are funny moments. I even enjoyed the filmmakers' noesis that they were ripping off then many movies that came before. The allusions to Information technology's a Wonderful Life, (the greatest "spiritual journey" film in being), like on the bridge, are groovy, as is the homage to Back to the Future with Efron's supposed awakening from his dream to be with his daughter much like Marty McFly wakes to his mother. In the end, though, its weaknesses win out. While it is reasonably harmless, there are just too many quality alternatives to recommend.
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Awful, simply awful...
Me pushing the 'stop'-button on the DVD-player halfway through a movie doesn't happen a lot, simply it happened this time. I was expecting to come across an enjoyable and witty teen moving picture, cypher more, nothing less. But it wasn't enjoyable, nor was it witty.
The acting was terrible, and the Ned-character was just downright abrasive. I guess he was supposed to be the funny guy (which every teen movie has at least one of), only he was so NOT funny. I don't think I tin can blame the thespian, it's probably just the absolutely rubbish script.
These types of movies should be 'lite', enjoyable and cleverly produced no-brainers, but fifty-fifty at this 17 Once again failed big fourth dimension. Information technology's not worth buying the DVD, and watching it when it comes out on TV would also be a waste matter of your time. You'd better go dish washing or something. Honestly...
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Unexpectedly Good!!!
Ok I'll be honest I idea this movie wasn't going to be that good. I grew upwards seeing this picture show advertised everywhere and finally many many years after got around to watching it.
Zac Efron did a great job interim in this movie 100% a step upwardly from the HSM days. The story was genuine and heartfelt and well done while too existence funny. I plan on watching this picture show over again anytime !
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Zac Efron winning performance
Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) was a teen basketball jock with all the potential in the world. When his girlfriend got pregnant, he abandons it all to ally her. At present they're adults, Mike (Matthew Perry) can't stop blaming all his problems on this decision. His married woman Ruby (Leslie Mann) divorces him. Then one night, a guardian affections sends Mike through a vortex and turns him back into a teen again. He decides to go back to high schoolhouse to relive his high school years, simply instead he reconnects with his family unit.
Thomas Lennon does his wacky best friend. It's basically 'Big' in opposite. The story isn't anything new or original. Zac Efron is quite funny as the fish out of h2o. He's surprisingly not bad as a compelling lead. It'southward his performance and his energy that drives this movie. The fob is that he'due south not playing a teen. He'south playing mid-30s in a trunk of a teen.
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Awful film
OK, I really turned up to this picture show to call back information technology'd be actually good. The hottest guy was the main part!!! I'thousand 16, looked like my sort of film, just I was totally wrong. Me and 3 others of my friends went to run into this (thank god we used orangish Wednesdays) and we were cringing the whole way through.
It was laughable at how bad it was. The mode information technology was written, the lines, just everything. Really bad. And the jokes weren't funny. Just a really inexpensive film and Zac Efron could do improve!!!
The just thing that kept me awake was Zac.
And I came out of this pic thinking it was one of the worst films I've ever seen.
Just a really stupid picture that would never happen, as well predictable and un-real.
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