Movie Review: 17 Again

What can I say?? I only went to see this to perve on Zac Efron!! Who cares that he's a little over a decade younger then I am... I can still perve right?! And he is HOT!!

The storyline is not something new. Just 'Google' the movie Young Again, which is a 1986 film starring a very young Keanu Reeves (I am showing my age here) in a very similar role to what Zac Efron's plays here.

I know my maths isn't perfect, but maybe I'm missing something... Mike O'Donnell is 37, so he was 17, 20 years ago, right? Now if he gave up getting a college scholarship because his girlfriend was pregnant, wouldn't that make the kid 19 or 20? Yet his daughter in the movie is still in high school! Shouldn't she be in college by then?!

Plot: What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Class of 1989, Mike O’Donnell is a star on his high school basketball court with a college scout in the stands and a bright future in his grasp. But instead, he decides to throw it all away to share his life with his girlfriend Scarlett and the baby he just learned they are expecting.Almost 20 years later, Mike’s glory days are decidedly behind him. His marriage to Scarlett has fallen apart, he has been passed over for a promotion at work, his teenage kids think he is a loser, and he has been reduced to crashing with his high school nerd-turned-techno-billionaire best friend Ned.

But Mike is given another chance when he is miraculously transformed back to the age of 17. Unfortunately, Mike may look 17 again, but his thirtysomething outlook is totally uncool in the class of 2009. And in trying to recapture his best years, Mike could lose the best things that ever happened to him.