- If you somehow had the chance, would you do your life over?Thirtysomething Mike O Donnell would. Then one mysteriously magicalmoment, Mike gets his chance. He s suddenly back at Hayden High wherehe s the star of the basketball team, a total hottie, and amateto his own teenage kids which gives Mike a chance to go fromnot-so-good dad to really cool friend. Zac Efron (Hairspray, the HighSchool Musica
ABOUT A GUY WHOSE LIFE DIDN’T QUITE TURN OUT HOW HE WANTED IT TO AND WISHES HE COULD GO BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL AND CHANGE IT. HE WAKES UP ONE DAY AND IS SEVENTEEN AGAIN AND GETS THE CHANCE TO REWRITE HIS LIFE.Zac Efron breaks free of his High School Musical legacy with 17 Again, leading a pack of fine comic actors in a body-switching comedy that freshens the genre with good ideas. Efron plays Mike, a high-school basketball star who blows a college scholarship in 1989 to marry his sweetheart. Cut to 2009, and late-30s Mike (Matthew Perry) is a sour guy passed over for a promotion and feeling estranged from that wife, Scarlett (Leslie Mann), and teen kids (Michelle Trachtenberg, Sterling Knight). Magical intervention causes Mike to turn 17 once more–albeit in the present–and tackle his failures with a fresh start. As the hot new kid in his children’s high school, Mike proves a better father to them as their peer than as a man, while Scarlett sees in him everything that attracted her to her husband two decades before. Writer Jason Filardi and director Burr Steers demonstrate an imaginative and supple wit in such half-expected scenes as Mike’s confrontations with a school bully and his unsuspecting daughter’s flirtations with him. But it’s Efron who carries some truly delicate moments and proves to be genuinely sympathetic when emotions get thick and heavy. Thomas Lennon is also entertaining as a wealthy Star Wars nerd who pretends to be Mike’s father, but his slightly excessive screen time suggests the filmmakers weren’t entirely sure Efron could do what needed to be done. If so, they were mistaken. –Tom Keogh
March 28, 2008
#1
I would have given this DVD 5 stars because I truly enjoyed the movie. BUT there are NO bonus features – incredibly disappointing.
March 29, 2008
#2
i love this movie. i bought it just because zac was in it . then i watch it and it was so good ned was hilarious and zac really did a good job making you think he really is a 37yr old in a 17 yr olds body . he really made the movie great.
i was disappointed about the dvd copy not having special features though . i dont have blu ray so i have no use to buy the blu ray copy .
March 29, 2008
#3
This is a really AWESOME,COOL,NEW movie! It may have a few bad words in it, well to tell you the truth, theres a lot of those words. But when you watch it you won’t mind that because you’ll be blown away! I wasn’t really sure if I wanted to go. Now that I watched it I think I would have died in the next few weeks for not seeing it!Zac Efron Did his best! I think he did the best in any other movie that he has been in! ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
March 29, 2008
#4
In 1989, Mike O’Donnell (Efron) is the star of the basketball team. He is one game from getting a big scholarship. Before the game, he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant. Determined to make the right decision, he skips the game and declares that his future is spending the rest of his life with her and raising their child. In 2007, Mike (Perry) is sick of his life, and Scarlett (Mann) is divorcing him. His kids don’t like him either. One day, a mysterious janitor at the school offers him a chance to do it all over again. He eagerly accepts, and the next day wakes up in a 17 year old body.
“17 Again” is nothing new. In fact, it has been done better many times before. This is clearly a starring vehicle for Efron, who is moderately charming and successful in the role. The story could have been written better, but seems dumbed down for the younger audience that would come to see Efron on film. I really cannot recommend this film.
March 29, 2008
#5
It was a marvelous movie, but the thing is thats all the DVD has. The movie, thats it. No bonus features what so ever. Not even bloopers. I expected much more from this. I guess the only exciting thing is that I can watch it in Spanish.