Storyline
On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.
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Cast
Thomas Lennon, Leslie Mann, Lorna Scott, Jesse Heiman, Jeanine Jackson, Ed Ackerman, Gregory Sporleder, Michelle Trachtenberg, Tiya Sircar, Nicole Sullivan, Jim Gaffigan, Collette Wolfe, Zac Efron, Vanessa Lee Chester, Hunter Parrish, Brian Doyle-Murray, Margaret Cho, Larry Poindexter, Kat Graham, Melora Hardin, Tyne Stecklein, Matthew Perry, Keith Oney, Tyler Steelman, Tommy Dewey, Melissa Ordway, Diana Maria Riva, Katrina Norman, Josie Loren, Allison Miller, Leonard Wu, Sterling Knight, Ellis E. Williams, Loren Lester, Adam Gregory, Mario Cassem, Kodi Kitchen, Will Schaub, Bubba Lewis, Chris Valenti, G. Lane Hillman, Hope Riley, Liana Blackburn, Lindsay Taylor, Shelby Rabara, Danielle E. Hawkins, Rhapsody Violetti, Tiana Brown, Taisha Monique Clark, Jordan Schatz
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Reviews
75
Pleasant, harmless PG-13 entertainment, with a plot a little more surprising and acting a little better than I expected.
75
Miami Herald
Though there's nothing revolutionary about 17 Again, the movie is undeniably enjoyable.
63
Charlotte Observer
As a remake of "It's a Wonderful Life" or "Back to the Future," the movies it borrows from most heavily, the relive-your-senior-year comedy 17 Again falls a little short of the mark. But as a funny, sweet and smart star vehicle tailored for Zac "High School Musical" Efron, it's right on the money.
50
Works better than you might imagine at times but stumbles awkwardly other times. The unevenness in the writing is matched by directorial overkill in certain comic sequences.
50
Variety
Zac Efron's squeaky-clean tweener-bait profile is unlikely to be threatened by 17 Again, an energetic but earthbound comic fantasy that borrows a few moves, if little inspiration, from "Big" and "It's a Wonderful Life."
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