Mike (Matthew Perry) suddenly finds himself as a seventeen year old again (Zac Efron). He thinks that he is being given a second chance to change his own life and the choices he made in high school. Later in the movie, he realizes that he did indeed choose the right path. He just didn't try hard enough to make it the best path that it could be. I really liked how they didn't have him actually go back in time. Instead, Mike is living in present day, posing as a teen, and going to school with his own kids. He even helps out his own estranged wife, Scarlett, who is amazed at how much this new kid resembles her soon-to-be ex.
I found the movie to be quite entertaining. There were several laugh out loud moments, and I felt that it never crossed the line into being stupid humor like so many teen flicks do in this day and age. I did think that the way he actually transformed into a teenager and then back to an adult was kind of lame. He became young by falling in a river after seeing a janitor that doesn't really exist, and he goes back to adulthood simply by leaving a basketball game and running down the hall. At least Back to the Future had the cool DeLorean with the flex capacitor that needed electricity from the lightning bolt to return home...way cooler! The movie did have a scene almost straight out of Back to the Future when Mike wakes up in a bedroom with his daughter Maggie. She is there to soothe him after he got punched out. Maggie begins to hit on him, causing Mike to become extremely uncomfortable just like Marty in BTTF feels after the teenage version of his mother starts to hit on him in the bedroom.
The whole storyline between his genius best friend Ned and the hot principal had me laughing until we discover that she is a sci fi geek as well. I'm sorry, but an attractive grown woman like her would never really be into all of that trekkie, cyborg, video game stuff. One of my favorite scenes had to be when the young Mike shows up to his divorce hearing to read a note to Scarlett. I KNEW the paper would be empty, and I'm a sucker for a man pouring out his heart to his lady. It was so sweet to hear about the memories that Mike had of the first time he fell in love her.
I found the movie to be quite entertaining. There were several laugh out loud moments, and I felt that it never crossed the line into being stupid humor like so many teen flicks do in this day and age. I did think that the way he actually transformed into a teenager and then back to an adult was kind of lame. He became young by falling in a river after seeing a janitor that doesn't really exist, and he goes back to adulthood simply by leaving a basketball game and running down the hall. At least Back to the Future had the cool DeLorean with the flex capacitor that needed electricity from the lightning bolt to return home...way cooler! The movie did have a scene almost straight out of Back to the Future when Mike wakes up in a bedroom with his daughter Maggie. She is there to soothe him after he got punched out. Maggie begins to hit on him, causing Mike to become extremely uncomfortable just like Marty in BTTF feels after the teenage version of his mother starts to hit on him in the bedroom.
The whole storyline between his genius best friend Ned and the hot principal had me laughing until we discover that she is a sci fi geek as well. I'm sorry, but an attractive grown woman like her would never really be into all of that trekkie, cyborg, video game stuff. One of my favorite scenes had to be when the young Mike shows up to his divorce hearing to read a note to Scarlett. I KNEW the paper would be empty, and I'm a sucker for a man pouring out his heart to his lady. It was so sweet to hear about the memories that Mike had of the first time he fell in love her.
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