It will be difficult to find a movie this year with a less original premise than 17 Again. The age-reversal storyline has been done to death.
Still, the performance of Zac Efron, a mainstream star in the making, makes this a worthwhile family film.
Read our detailed 17 Again review to find out why.
In the following clips from 17 Again, Matthew Perry laments his life as an adult, and Zac Efron gets down on the gym floor with a few cheerleaders as a teenager.
The video is littered with Spanish subtitles for some reason, but no matter.
This is still a nice preview for 17 Again, which opens on April 17:
Those screams being heard around the country aren't simply due to American Idol being back on the air.
The official movie poster for 17 Again has been released. The movie stars teenage crush Zac Efron.
Here are a few previously-released images of Efron from 17 Again. Click on each to enlarge (you're welcome, young female readers!)...
Zac Efron stars High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which opens this weekend
But in the spring of 2009, the actor expands his movie resume beyond this Disney franchise and stars alongside Matthew Perry and Leslie Mann in 17 Again, a film about a man trapped in a teenager's body. Yes, it's the opposite of Big.
Check out the 17 Again trailer now:
Sorry, guys. You might wanna go stare at pictures of Megan Fox for awhile.
This post is meant for our young, female readers.
Take a look at this collection of Zac Efron photos from the upcoming movie 17 Again. Click on any of them now for a larger (cuter!) view...
Michelle Trachtenberg is having fun on the set of 17 Again.
Saying she refers to Zac as "Dad" on set - because Efron is, oddly enough, portraying her father - Trachtenberg added:
"Anything we did, father/daughter-wise. I'd tease him, ‘I'm older than you! You're not really my father,' while he's trying to tell me what to do."
Mark our words: 17 Again will be a giant box office hit when it comes out in August. The reason? Two words:
Zac. Efron.
The High School Musical star is beloved by every teenage girl in the country. And we know how they'll be using their allowances come August.
Here's a look at a couple of 17 Again photos:
There are new behind-the-scenes shots of Zac Efron and Michelle Trachtenberg in 17 Again (previously called just Seventeen) that will be featured in the April 2008 issue of teen mag J-14.
Regarding the film, Producer Adam Shankman recently said:
"This is about a man whose life has not gone the way he wants it to, so he wishes he was 17 again and he gets his wish. And then he's realizing it's nothing like he thought it would be. So it's a reverse Big. It has as many funny scenes in it as it does heartfelt scenes."
17 Again opens in August.
Attention, teenage girls who are crying over the fact that Zac Efron will never dance again after High School 3 is finished being filmed:
Adam Shankman, the producer/director/choreographer of Hairspray, told MTV recently that this young heart throb will be taking to the dance floor in 17 Again.
"We have some very funny scenes between him and Leslie Mann from Knocked Up, which are off-the-charts funny," Shankman said. "But there's also this big thing with Zac dancing with a lot of cheerleaders that is very, very fun and funny."
Read more about Efron in Seventeen Again now.
Zac Efron is excited to be the age of seventeen again in the movie 17 Again.
In the film, which co-stars Matthew Perry, Efron plays a middle-age man suddenly transported back to his teenage years.
"Everything you do, you have to kind of view it from your dad's perspective," Efron said to MTV, revealing how he got in the head of an adult for the role. "I tried to do a few things that I learned from my dad �" things that he thinks are cool but are really dorky.
"That seems to be working pretty well," he laughed.
Portraying the young Mike O'Donnell �" who gets his wish for a chance to go back to high school and redo his life �" is the perfect way for Efron to transition from tween heartthrob to adult thesp in flicks such as Me and Orson Welles.
This is especially true given that the character offers him a shot at growing up without the side-effects of actually growing up.
"I could have gone out and just played a kid somewhere and had a blast. But now I'm playing a 40-year-old guy," he said. "It's kind of fun playing an adult."
