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Your most recent reviews of 17 Again (2009)
Review from A38AJ23HR8358Z at Amazon.co.uk submitted on 2010-08-02
this film came out of nowhere for me, i wasn't expecting to love it or hate it just vegetate to it!! but boy was i surprised, it is clever, funny, Zac Efron is to die for oooooooohh ladies he's got it all. i watched it every night for the week it showed on sky and then just had to own it.
Review from 2009sweetsarah119 at eBay.co.uk submitted on 2010-08-08
I love this film because of the comic genius. its a bit freaky fridayesque except instead of swapping bodies he turns into a 17 year old again although i think the roomate makes this film funnier than zac efron does himself. some hilarious moments.
Review from A1LOY6HEJC3F9F at Amazon.co.uk submitted on 2010-07-19
Nice little film if you like a bit of com with your rom... which my wife and I do.
We like "Wedding Singer", "Nottinghill", "Love Actually", "The Holiday" and can't stand indie stuff like "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind" or "Me and You and Everyone We Know".
Our kids hate everything to do with "High School Musical" and so intensly dislike anyone from such movies, but Zac Efron comes across as likeable and bright rather than your usual precocious and annoying.
The geek sidekick has some toys that us 40 somethings laughed out loud about.
Good Fun.
Review from elizabethbuffy at eBay.co.uk submitted on 2010-07-23
Okay, so perhaps it's a little uncool to rate this film as 'excellent', but you know what? I just can't lie.
Let me preface this brief review by saying that I am very much NOT a fan of the High School Musical phenomenon; thus I feel I have credited myself with an opinion that is not based solely upon 'Oh my God I love and live for Zac Efron'.
When invited along by a friend to indulge in an Orange Wednesday I had resigned myself to two hours of saccharine cliches and monotonous dialogue; I was, I'll admit it, completely won over. '17 again' is an intelligent, witty and, somehow, original film that is consistently laugh-out-loud funny. Admittedly the plot device of the magical janitor who serves as the catalyst for the ensuing chaos is perhaps the tiniest bit implausible, but the film doesn't try to pretend otherwise; it's almost as if a little subtitle comes up going 'Okay, we know this is ridiculous, but we had to fabricate SOME reason for the brilliance that will follow, and this was all we could find at the bottom of the barrel'.
Zac Efron himself is remarkably unannoying and proves himself rather talented at playing a character with some personality. Matthew Perry, somewhat thankfully, isn't in the film for more than about 20 minutes; he is perhaps slightly unconvincing as a grown up Zac Efron. But the show, as far as I was concerned, was completely stolen by Thomas Lennon who plays Ned; and perhaps I'll leave you with an undeniable incentive to watch the film by saying that you simply must discover what he means by 'peacocking'.
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