Here’s the trailer for 17 again, which so far as I can tell, gives absolutely no credit to Gary Ross, who wrote Big. But then again, neither did 13 Going on 30, so I guess the premise is just so gosh-darn generic that anyone can use it these days. And use it, Zac Efron does. Half of you probably have no idea who Zac Efron is, and how I wish I were one of you. Alas, he’s the star of the High School Musical franchise, he’s set to play Richard Samuel in Me and Orson Welles and the lead in a Footloose remake (has that sunk in?) and here he’s the lead in a Big/ Like Father, Like Son mash-up. As an older gent, he’s played by Matthew Perry, who falls into the river and magically swims out 17 again. Ain’t that a kick in the pants? The good news: He can live his life again. The bad news: He’s in high school with his daughter. Also, he’s being played by that cocktail weenie, Efron.
And as horrible as it looks, I know I’ll be sucked into it. I won’t like it, goddamnit. But I’m a sucker for these wake-up-in-a-different-body movies. It’s my secret shame, y’all. It’s like Candy Corn — I don’t really like it, but I can’t stop eating it. And then I puke. The End.
He's in high school with his daughter.
+He's young again but with his older self's mind.
+The eyebrows
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Could this BE anymore of a Big rip-off! ((Worst Chandler Bing ever))
This one has dance numbers! Hurray?
Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at October 22, 2008 9:33 AM
candy corn actually is my secret shame. i'm not kidding. nobody believes me when i tell them how much i love it ("it's like eating sugared wax, you know."..."your point?"), but you'd believe me if you saw me buy a bag of it and eat it all in one sitting. which i'm not saying i've um, done a few times, in the past month or so, all i'm saying is thank godtopus for halloween.
i guess i also don't need to tell you that i laughed at the end of the trailer.
i'm done shaming myself for the day.
Posted by: eat my shorts at October 22, 2008 9:41 AM
oh YES! I am SUCH a sucker for changing-body movies. I don't even care that Zac (I'm so clean-cut it hurts) Efron is in it...
Is that really sad of me?
Posted by: missh at October 22, 2008 9:48 AM
I want that 2:29 back Rowles. And Lieutenant Dangle? Awww your killing me.
Posted by: Admin11 at October 22, 2008 9:49 AM
So, this movie has been done like thirty times or so now, right?
I have a 4 and a half year old niece. Naturally, this means of course I know who Zac Efron is. (Also, I have two sisters who are WAY into musicals/musical theater [I'm not at all, nosir, not in the least {shifty eyes}], so, yeah.)
I'll probably see it anyway, because I'm a sucker for crap like this. (At least Efron looks a little less annoying than usual, no? Just me? Must be that part where he was topless.)
Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at October 22, 2008 10:01 AM
"But I'm a sucker for these wake-up-in-a-different-body-movies."
Having woken up inside my girlfriend on several occasions I kinda like these types of movies also.
Posted by: Pookie at October 22, 2008 10:02 AM
"High school is a prison." -- Mojo Nixon
The only way I'd want to be 17 again is if I could take 51 years of practice pleasin' the ladies with me. And even then I'd have to think about it, long and hard.
Heh. See what I did there?
Posted by: bucdaddy at October 22, 2008 10:11 AM
How about a movie in which Matthew Perry travels back in time ten years to when he had a career?
Posted by: hendero at October 22, 2008 10:12 AM
And the part with the old-man janitor on the bridge rips off It's a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Lizzie (greeneyed fem) at October 22, 2008 10:21 AM
I love Candy Corn, and I feel no shame. It makes me happy in my heart.
Posted by: Gabs at October 22, 2008 10:21 AM
Efron would seem to be the kind of person that would squeal and/or shriek when startled, not yell like he did in the trailer. Maybe he's a better actor than I thought.
Posted by: branded at October 22, 2008 10:25 AM
I would HATE to be a teenager again. The thought of waking up and discovering that my acne is back and I'm suddenly flatchested has zero appeal. Plus, the other teenagers would bore the freaking hell out of me. Even as a teenager, I prefered the company of older people. They were so much more interesting.
Posted by: BWeaves at October 22, 2008 10:41 AM
eatmyshorts, do you know how hard it is to feed a candy corn addiction when it's not halloween? They don't keep that shit stocked year round.
And, I have no shame. I start my sentences with and like ALL the time. And while thinking about it and reading about it made me want to vomit from the eyes and ears, I will SOOOOO see this movie now after watching the trailer. I can't explain it...it just made me gleeful.
Posted by: jamiepants at October 22, 2008 10:41 AM
Wait? So Zac Efron tells somebody else that they look like Clay Aiken? Pot calling the kettle, pot calling the kettle.
Posted by: BWeaves at October 22, 2008 10:46 AM
This movie should probably also give credit to 18 Again and Vice Versa. While both of those movies were pretty bad, Kirk "Even God thinks my movies suck" Cameron/George Burns and Fred Savage/Judge Reinhold are both better lame-ass combos than Closeted Efron/No-Longer-Funny Perry.
Posted by: Sean (Llama) at October 22, 2008 10:49 AM
Cross out candy corn and insert smartees, and I'm there. I should just crush them up and snort them. It would be much quicker roller coaster ride to the Everest sugar high and depths of hell why the fuck did I eat all those crash.
Posted by: slower lower at October 22, 2008 11:16 AM
Don't be hatin' on the Zefron.
Mamma's got a cougar crush.
Posted by: wsapnin at October 22, 2008 11:27 AM
jamiepants - that's a struggle i know all too well. last year at school, our little student deli place stopped stocking it after november, and i might have crossed the line to harassment with the number of requests and angry threats i left in the suggestion box. that stuff is seriously like crack to me.
Posted by: eat my shorts at October 22, 2008 11:31 AM
So...this has all the creepy Mom-love from Back to the Future mixed with paedopheliac daughter lust?
Michelle Trachtenberg deserves so much better than this. I REMEMBER YOU FROM PETE & PETE MICHELLE! IGGY POP WAS YOUR DAD!!!! WHAT WOULD HE SAY NOW!!!!
Posted by: Renee at October 22, 2008 11:51 AM
Candy corn is the goodness, but it still has nothing on the addictive power that is Sour Patch Kids for me. I eat them until my tounge hurts for HOURS.
You know a movie is going all out when they are using sound effects from the Hollywood Edge: The Premiere Edition 2. Available for all High School musical theater productions. Now your crappy play truly has the real Hollywood Edge.
Posted by: The Ross Sea Party at October 22, 2008 12:13 PM
Scott, I have the same problem with Smarties. Until my tongue is raw and the roof of my mouth is shredded, and all that sugar in my intestines turns everything into brick and it just sits there for 3 days. God I love Smarties.
I do also love candy corn and mellocreme pumpkins, btw, but after a while they become cloying so I stop before I get to the pain.
Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at October 22, 2008 12:14 PM
Efron wishes it was big. He wishes it was so big.
I am, of course, referring to a penis. In his butt.
(I am hell of crass today)
Posted by: firedmyass at October 22, 2008 12:36 PM
I always end up horribly depressed after movies like this. They make me painfully aware of all the wasted opportunities and stupid decisions I've had/made.
Posted by: Lucas at October 22, 2008 1:50 PM
Let's not forget "Freaky Friday" (both versions) as rip-off/source material, too.
I think I kinda would like to revisit my youth and "do it all again." I was something of a overachiever with no social life in high school. I wouldn't mind sacrificing some of the achiever for more of the social life. Of course, what I'd really like to do is to revisit college. That's where I could make some major do-overs.
I love candy corn and Smartees. I once saw some Easter candy that was made of the same material as candy corn. Maybe it will spread to all the holidays, just like Peeps now has marshmallow turkeys in addition to the Easter chicks.
Posted by: rlr260 at October 22, 2008 3:21 PM
In the spirit of the thing...
Could Zac Efron BE any gayer?
I mean...really? The guy can't show up in a photo without looking like he'd like to spoon naked with Clay Aiken while making Vanessa Hudgens sleep in the armchair, while warning her that he'll release all the naked photos he has of her if she even dares to speak of the part of him that goes for the Love That Has No Name.
I freakin' hate Zac Efron. CUT OFF THOSE FUCKING BANGS ALREADY! What are you, a farmer?!
Posted by: figgy at October 22, 2008 3:22 PM
I'll probably watch this. I'm kind of a sucker for this kind of film... and...
*small whisper voice* I liked High School Musical.
Kill me now.
Posted by: Alexandra at October 22, 2008 5:36 PM
Ursula, Dangle, Chandler, Nona Mecklenberg, and Troy Bolton? Awwww sheeeeit, I'm watching this when it reruns on TBS. I'll spend half the time worried that there'll be horrifying chemistry between Troy Bolton and his children, but I'll watch it.
(Alexandra, I made a group of camp counselors watch HSM with me because that movie is hilarious.)
Zac Efron's first role: Young Simon on Firefly. HOW TRIPPY IS THAT?!
Posted by: Audiosuede at October 22, 2008 6:51 PM
I am going to skip right over everything to say this: WHY ARE PEOPLE CONTINUING TO HIRE MICHELLE "MY HEAD IS STUCK UP MY ASS AND THAT'S WHY I HAVE NO HUMAN EMOTION" TRACHTENBERG?!?!?! Seriously. SERIOUSLY. There is nothing I can stand about her. Ever. Pete & Pete was an anomole, and guess what? She was annoying on that. STOP HIRING HER HOLLYWOOD!
Posted by: KatSings1985 at October 22, 2008 10:26 PM
I wonder if he has gone to the Marty McFly's mom's school of banging your child.
Posted by: john darc at October 27, 2008 12:09 PM
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Posted by: Clyde Ortega at November 12, 2008 6:04 PM
He's in high school with his daughter.
+He's young again but with his older self's mind.
+The eyebrows
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