Directed by:
Burr SteersScreenplay:
Jason FilardiCinematography:
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Rolfe KentCast:
Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Matthew Perry, Sterling Knight, Michelle Trachtenberg, Adam Gregory, Hunter Parrish, Melora Hardin, Tommy Dewey (more)VOD (3)
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What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Class of 1989, Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is a star on the 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 Scarlet and the baby he just learned they are expecting. Almost 20 years later, Mike's (Matthew Perry) glory days are decidedly behind him. His marriage to Scarlet (Leslie Mann) 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 (Thomas Lennon). 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 thirty-something outlook is totally uncool among the class of 2009. and in trying to recapture his best years, Mike could lose the best things that ever happened to him. (Roadshow Entertainment)
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"When you're young, everything feels like the end of the world." When Zac Efron, Michelle and Leslie Mann are at the peak of their performance, and the genre mixes a few clichés with an nostalgia as strong as a wave of fandom, it is impossible to resist. "Different" teenage comedies still know how to warm your heart.
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Pretty good. Back to the Future inside out, with a hole instead of a DeLorean. It also seems to me that Efron must be somehow related to M. J. Fox, the resemblance is uncanny, or was it just the similar plot? Perry also is nice to see. Otherwise, the good scenes balance out the bad ones, but I had more fun than not, so thumbs up. I was expecting it to be a bigger heap of nonsense.
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A quite pleasant comedy, where the only thing that bothered me a little was that Matthew Perry didn't appear much here, as he couldn't show even a fraction of his comedic artistry. Otherwise, there are great women here, and Zac Efron hasn't been one of those actors that bothered me for a while. Additionally, Thomas Lennon is pulling it off wonderfully outside of the main storyline.
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I felt like I was in High School Musical at the beginning, then ended up just in high school. It wasn't bad. Not that I cracked the screen with laughter, no, but I wasn't bored. One good scene is when the "best friend" has a date. That one kind of amused me. Otherwise, as always Matthew was awesome, I still see Chandler in him, but it was quite fitting here. And then, after the movie, it's interesting to watch the credits for a while, enhanced by the visual aids ;-)
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