When I watch what I feel is a good movie I love to tell everyone about it. So here is my review of the movie "17 Again".
The movie is great. Zac Efron is a wonderful actor and is extremely talented. He played the role of a frustrated father (first played by Matthew Perry), and husband that goes back in time and has the opportunity to change his past. He was very convincing playing a middle aged father in a young man's body. There were times when you would actually think that this young actor was a husband and a father. He had it down to a science. The movie had a wonderful mix of humor and drama. I hope to see Zac Efron in many more movies and I was especially impressed with a scene where he demonstrated his talent with a basketball. I also like the character, Thomas Lennon, that played Zac Efron's best friend in the movie. He played a guy that had become a millionaire with a somewhat childlike quirky personality. This actor added a lot to the movie especially the way he continously pursued the female high school principal in an unconventional way.The actress, Leslie Mann, who plays Zac Ephron's soon to be estranged wife in the movie, always does a good job in any movie she plays in. In this movie she sees similarities in appearance in the character played by Zac, and her husband which adds some pretty funny scenes.The teenagers in the movie were also very good expressing puzzled looks as their new friend - father (unknown to them), acts like a parent around them.I coaxed my husband into watching the movie with our kids telling him that it was not just a "chick flick", and he also thought that the movie was great.The going back in time story has been done before but the creator of this movie pulled off this story perfectly with its own originality. I rarely buy a movie but after first renting it I decided that this one was worth purchasing. I hope that "17 Again" someday becomes a cult classic.




Written by:
Naif .M. Alsharif & with some help from his E teatcher
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