All of which is to the point
here because it pretty much every respect bar one 17 Again is a
completely typical example of the age-swap genre.
The story is simple...
Zac Effron was a high
school basketball star until the night of the big game when his
girlfriend's news that she was pregnant threw him off his game,
shuffled them off into marriage, and fifteen-odd years later he has
turned into Matthew Perry, estranged from his two kids and staring down
the barrel of a deserved divorce because he won't stop whining about
how badly his life turned out.
Then a magical janitor turns him back into
Zac Effron and he decides to use his second childhood to win his family
back. As you do in this kind of movie.
Effron is funny and charming,
the plot powers along, most of the jokes raise a smile at the very
least and the whole thing doesn't take itself too seriously, so this
would be yet another competent but forgettable entry into the age-swap
genre if not for one thing:
Zac Effron's sex appeal...
Because he hasn't actually gone back in time
the only person he can legitimately hit on is his soon to be ex-wife -
and he does, which is a bit creepy.
But when the film's only other
female character starts to fall for him - which in any other film would
make sense because hey, he is Zac Effron - things gets a little too
creepy because it is his daughter.
Comedy sort of ensues, but still it is a
twist no-one demanded. And when a film has charcaters saying "this is a
bit weird", you know that, well, it's all a bit too weird. DVD Special Features
No Special Features to be found anywhere on the 17 Again
DVD edition, however, if you fork out a few extra bucks on the Blu Ray
you might be lucky enough to catch a few (fairly stock standard)
featurettes and making of's.
Surely Efron has enough of a worldwide following that extras might have been higher on their priority list?
Conclusion:
Movie 70% Extras: N/A
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