17 Again Movie Reviews
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Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
Okay, so you've seen the girls doing a bit of time travel in films like 13 Going on 30 and Freaky Friday. And you've seen Tom Hanks too play boy-turned-man in Big. But you actually won't mind 17 AgainRead full review2.5
Rashid Irani | Hindustan Times
Body-swap age-reversal stories have been filmic fodder for the past several decades. A derivative confection about a grownup who magically reverts to teen-hood, 17 Again is decidedly inferiorRead full review2.0
Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
Borrowing its central conceit from the similarly-themed but far superior Tom Hanks-starrer Big, this week's 17 Again stars Zac Efron as Mike O'Donnell, a high-school basketball star who gives up a college sports scholarship in order to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Fast forward to 20 years later and Mike has matured, rather unconvincingly, into Matthew Perry.Read full review2.0
Manohla Dargis (NYTNS) | The Telegraph
What is Zac Efron? Despite his ubiquity and supernova stardom in certain shrieking demographic circles, I feel confident that there are others who are curious about this weighty question of culture. For starters Zac Efron is a he, a Californian by birth and of drinking age in the state of his birth (21). He is pale, pliable and very pretty (picture-perfect for bedroom walls), with a curtain of hair that sweeps across his forehead and well-manicured dark browsRead full review1.5
Bryan Durham | Mid-Day
Mike O'Donell (Perry) is a cranky mian seeing his personal and professional life going down the drain. His wife, Scarlett (Mann) is separated from him and they're in the throes of getting a divorceRead full review