"17 again" with Zac Efron : our review

The movie is about Mike O'Donnell, played by Matthew Perry in adulthood, and Zac Efron at 17. Adult, Mike is an unfortunate businessman, almost divorced, who realizes he has made mistakes in his life. He will have a second chance, the chance he will have to take when he will return to his youthful body, which will allow him to bring many opportunities to regain the happiness of a perfect life. He will be faced with new choices, and will have to make the good ones. 

"17 Again" has everything for a comedy for teenagers without neurons. This movie includes a number of unlikely elements like his best childhood friend and his wife do not even seem to know what he was looking like  at the age of 17, since his best friend does not even recognize him on time, and his wife makes the entire movie to realize that it is her husband that she was actually in front of the entire time. 

Zac Efron is not credible for a second, I think that he's too overpriced, and especially by the young audience and all the girls who have a "crush" on him. In addition, all the comedies in which he plays are really among the worst that I have been given to see. Avoid at all costs this movie for teenagers fans of "Twilight" and "High School Musical", if you do not want to lose a few neurons (irony). I wonder how Matthew Perry could agree to play there!

There are days, you say to yourself "well I would like to watch one of those movies that I'm not used to watch," or (to be more precise) "wow this movie seems boring, I should watch it. It will rest my brain"

Then the casting you'll find sets of actors from tv shows which doesn't air anymore (Friends, Weeds, Buffy against the vampires, among others, will you find them?) And Zac Efron, for the part of bringing 15 years old girls and their moms ...

So let's go for criticize the umpteenth movie of a rejuvenating an old man because he screwed up somewhere. And when the spirit that will make him relive everything, asks the ultimate question "are you sure you do differently" you feel so near of the end of the movie that you'd rather forget. We all already know the end!

The film allows viewing, except that at times he falls in through moralist I do not support and that I could only supported because they appear as quickly as it disappear 

But the most "funny" character, is played by the best friend of the hero who is not getting younger and is the only one to know that Mike is again a teenager without acne. Ned is the geek caricature that Hollywood loves presents us. He is a collector of all derivatives from his films / comics / favorite novels. He has among others, a landspeeder bed, a replica Vador "real" size of elf ears, a registered C3P Ferrari Gold and a quantity of lightsabers.

The worst is that we can not say Efron is a bad actor. By himself he could learn to play to Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliffe and Keanu Reeves together. Yes the film was not a scenario to die, but it is not so bad in the background.

I really do not expect much. Matthew Perry without the actors of Friends quickly lost himself in limbo with supporting roles, I had already cataloged Zac Efron in the list of actors sentenced to play romances or musicals branded Disney Channel (early retirement before 28 years ).

The scenario is a tribute to the cliché and yet ... yet it works not too bad. Efron who is doing very honorably, plays just enough of his good looks and avoids singing / dancing / stir too much (one day, they will stop to make you play basketball, I'm confident).

But I stay on my start position. On the myth of the eternal teenager and the refrain that the US love so much, that is, the wheel of time, or the "if I could redo everything", we stuck with the good looks of Zac Efron throughout a teen movie where a disillusioned father retry popularity in high school and the fulfillment of the dreams he had for that time to finally fall on the same conclusion he felt that his life failed.

Suprising, isn't it?

We are bored throughout this movie, that we would swear that we wrote it ourselves, so we can guess accurately the sequence of scenes and dialogues, as uninspired as Zac's cut.

This film makes me want to vomit. I'm not talking about Zac Effron because I am rather optimistic and say that he will probably do worse. But honestly? What are the values ​​of this film?

-The abstinence? when Mr. Plastic sends up condoms and says in full swing that we must never have sex, at least not without being sure of being with the right person and that parents approve ... (I thought I hallucinated when I saw that). Especially when you know the hypocrisy on this issue in the US, it's just hilarious.

-The Responsibilities => the biggest word in this movie because indeed if the character has a second youth is to better consider his present that he has completely failed: he asked his girlfriend to keep their Baby and voluntarily sacrificed a career and a potential happiness for : a woman who leaves him, a job he dislikes, and children who do not speak to him. But eventually he realizes that he has made the right choice by assuming his role as a father, because yes is better to be unhappy all his life rather to live happily (which would have been the case if he continued to play basketball).

The only moral of the movie is that it should be probably more painful to raise children than abortion. At least seen the cases presented (including Mr. Plastic) ..

If you love Zac Efron:

Zac Efron is seen with a permanent, we see Zac Efron wearing a basketball jersey while perspiring, we see Zac Efron out of his car idling shaking hair, we see Zac Efron refuse the advances of Michelle Trachtenberg (Gossip Girl), we see Zac Efron crying while reading a letter he has not written.

If no one likes Zac Efron:

Zac Efron gets fucked her mouth by a platinum blond guy. There are funny things. There in Jan from The Office, which always plays the cold bitch and also the wife of Judd Apatow who always plays the hottie dropped. Someone sleeps in a sleeping car. Students dancing before a baseball game. We see a ghost from Friends -not Jennifer Aniston- for over 10 minutes (it never happens nowadays), no Betty White.

May the odds be ever in your favor...

You know you love me...

XOXO

Ness