Light in substance, the movie doesn't support heavyweight stars Zac Efron, Matthew Perry
di Michael Phillips The Los Angeles Times
Zac Efron, looking cool, is movie enough for the makers of "17 Again," a halfhearted fantasy that stars Efron in a role cryogenically frozen around the time of C. Thomas Howell's '80s heyday. He plays a high school basketball star who has everything going for him. His college sports career gets derailed by his girlfriend's unplanned pregnancy. This 1989 prologue doesn't last long, but the Boy George and Vanilla Ice references are intense.
Twenty bittersweet years later, Efron's Mike O'Donnell has turned into a defeatist schlump played by Matthew Perry, who peddles erectile dysfunction pills for his drug company and devoutly wishes to return to his teen glory days and change a few things. [...]
di Michael Phillips, articolo completo (3275 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 18 aprile 2009