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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 04/23/2009 : 23:23:31
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17 Again
Screams TV movie and from well-trodden premise of suddenly becoming your younger self - body swaps, time travel, kinda bullshit - from that to the anodyne message that you gotta learn to love what you got rather than pine for what you don't got -- it's too morally clean-cut to deserve your attention.
Of course there is the Zac phenomenon, which for his rapidly growing fanbase wouldn't care if he appeared in a dramatization of the phone book. And, whatever his manly charms and charisma, this talented kid is developing into a tidy actor indeed.
There's some basketball, some unrealistic but not entirely embarrassing comedy, but honestly, unless you are or have a teenage girl, not really worth the price of admission.
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/24/2009 : 10:00:12
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| It was better than expected, as I had considered it a completely pointless exercise. Efron is better than in the High School Musicals (in which he's still O.K.), and has quite a good comic touch. And while the previous body-swap comedies seem recent to me, the main audience for this weren't born when most of them came out, so I guess it's fair for them to have their own. |
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turrell 
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 04/24/2009 : 14:26:03
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| Regarding the basketball, I heard it was the worst basketball represented on screen since the advent of Teen Wolf (apparently another movie where a 30 something guy pretends to be a teenager - though MJ Fox was always baby-faced). |
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 04/27/2009 : 04:24:02
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| I was offered two tickets to the premiere in Melbourne, with Zac in attendance, I decided it would be more fun to stay home and cut my toe nails. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/27/2009 : 05:11:43
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I've only seen clips of this but what I have noticed from those is how well Efron seems to take on the manerisms and vocal inflections of Matthew Perry. It reminded me of Lindsay Lohan trying to sound like Jamie Lee Curtis in their version of Freaky Friday.
As stupid as these types of films are on the surface, if done right, they can be pretty fun.
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/27/2009 : 11:41:08
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Originally posted by turrell
Regarding the basketball, I heard it was the worst basketball represented on screen since the advent of Teen Wolf (apparently another movie where a 30 something guy pretends to be a teenager - though MJ Fox was always baby-faced).
The ball tricks seemed good to me. Don't know about the playing, but as basketball was just invented to provide winter exercise and is thus not really a proper sport, it doesn't really matter.  |
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