17 Again
by Burr Steers
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Actor: Leslie Mann, Matthew Perry, Michelle Trachtenberg, Thomas Lennon, Zac EfronDirector: Burr Steers
Brand: NLV
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Published: 2009-08-01
DVD Release Date: 2009-08-11
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Color; Full Screen; Widescreen; Subtitled; NTSC
Movie Reviews of 17 Again
Movie Review: What can I say; it won me over!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you took `Big', threw in a little `Disney's The Kid' and added an emotional heft of `It's a Wonderful Life' and you'd have the magic of '17 Again'. I really can't believe I just said all that, since walking into this movie I expected to find it mundane and worthless. I actually really liked this movie, like a lot.
Sure, it's predictable, but in a charmingly fresh way.
The film tells the story of Mike, a one-time basketball star who gave up his dreams to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Twenty years later and Mike is bitter and dissatisfied with his life, which has weighed heavily on his wife Scarlett, who feels like the target of Mike's unhappiness. The film opens with Mike living at his best friend Ned's house while he awaits his impending divorce. Mike's teenage kids resent him and his wife is aching to love him, but her better judgment won't allow it. When Mike gets a freaky visit from a man no one else can see he is soon in for a strange yet much needed wake up call. After falling off a bridge, Mike finds himself 17 again, only this time he's living out his high school days in the present, with his wife and kids in arms reach. Taking this as an opportunity to fix his life, Mike begins mending relationships, but his current situation certainly makes it a tad difficult.
You don't need me to tell you that everything works out in the end, but the film works a lot of magic getting us there!
Personally, I didn't have much faith in Zac Efron. I was wrong. This kid has loads of charm and real talent that he uses to full effect here. The films more tender scenes are carried with the needed humor yet substantial emotional depth. Who wasn't near tears while Efron unloads in a classroom about the love he felt for his newborn daughter or when he pleaded in the courtroom for his wife to give him another chance? Efron NAILED this performance. He was slick, charming, cool and emotionally relevant. The supporting cast didn't do so bad either. Thomas Lennon (as the nerdy best friend) is ridiculously hilarious here, even when his character is a little too far over the top, and Leslie Mann is not only beautiful, but she is intelligently funny (I just love her work). Michelle Trachtenberg is like my new celebrity crush (man has she grown up) and Sterling Knight balances his awkwardness with layered bravado as Mike's son.
Yes, this story has been told before, but that doesn't mean this one isn't just as good as the others. It's far from what I expected, but that is a very good thing.
Summary of 17 Again
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG13
Street Date: 08/11/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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