The 17 Again reviews have arrived. Let’s get straight to it, we’re not getting any younger.

I don’t know how many times this story has been told. But it’s a lot. ‘Freaky Friday’ with Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, ‘Like Father Like Son’ with Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron, ‘18 Again’ with George Burns and Charlie Schlatter, ‘Vice Versa’ with Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage, ‘Freaky Friday’ (again) with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan… and that last one was only 5 years ago. I’m not even counting the likes of ‘Big’ and ‘13 Going On 30′.

Here’s what the movie critics are saying -

AV Club -

“Zac Efron is a serious talent, equally agile in dance and slapstick while bringing a theatrical zip to every scene. …he’s right there to pick up the daffy body-swapping farce 17 Again whenever it goes astray. And the film needs a lot of rescuing. Grade: B”

Hollywood Reporter -

“17 Again earns its laughs and delivers its life lessons. Efron does a fine job in letting the older man seep through his boyish exterior. In this high school, no one ever goes to class, the kids are too old and Efron is too short for a basketball star but otherwise, 17 Again is the epitome of realism.”

Variety -

“…the usual cliches about teen misfits, loser dads and high-concept out-of-body experiences… Efron is ideally cast as a fresh-faced youth…and gets a few amusing monologues to play…But the story is bogged down by credibility-stretching coincidences…as well as a tendency to reduce both of Mike’s children to stick figures.”

17 Again currently holds a 69% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 51 reviews.

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