He is one of those former superstars who peaked in high school and then made one massive huge mistake. Today, as their divorce closes in on finalized, and his job and kids is slipping away from him, adult Mike (a hangdog Matthew Perry, looking like he walked every inch of this guy’s pains) is stuck. Zac Efron plays the young Mike O’Donnell, who in the 1980’s married his knocked up high school sweetheart to do the right thing. Who, at some point, hasn’t had the fantasy of going back to do our youth over (all of it, or just a key moment or two), but with our adult wisdom and experience? Or, at the very least, get to see your feet when you look down AND eat a whole pizza in one sitting without regretting it the next day. It’s more like It’s A Wonderful Life crossed with a Christmas Carol, with a soupçon of Never Been Kissed, or maybe a pinch of reverse 13 Going on 30. A wise older cynic gets to be hot and seventeen years old again and fix everything in his present-day life? Suh-weet. It’s more of a male fantasy than even that. I have a weakness for the Freaky Friday body-switching comedies, which this is not, despite appearances. Starring: Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Michelle Trachtenberg, Sterling Knight, Melora Hardin
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