17 Again You Look Just Like My Husband

"Well, of course I desire to live in the past. It was meliorate at that place."

17 Over again is a 2009 American one-act motion picture.

Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is the Large Man on Campus. He'southward the star of the loftier school basketball team, his girlfriend is the hottest girl in school, and he's nigh to exist offered a scholarship. Only his life takes a turn for the worse after he discovers his girlfriend is pregnant.

Flash Frontward xx years, and Mike (Matthew Perry)'s life hasn't improved. His married woman Cherry-red (Leslie Mann) has kicked him out, his kids Alex (Sterling Knight) and Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg) both hate him, he'south just been fired, and he's living with his geeky but much richer best friend Ned Golden (Thomas Lennon). After going to his old schoolhouse to option up his kids, Mike is approached by a mysterious janitor (Brian Doyle-Murray) whom he tells that he'd exercise anything to relive the Glory Days. On his way abode, Mike sees the same janitor about to jump off a bridge. Rushing to save him, he topples over the edge and lands in a whirlpool.

When he crawls out and gets back to his friend's place, Mike discovers he'southward been turned into his 17-year-old self. Now he has a take chances to sneak into the lives of his family and get another chance at the life he wanted.

Non to be confused for the year 2000 moving picture Seventeen Again (2000) starring Tia and Tamera Mowry and Tahj Mowry.

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This film provides examples of the following tropes:

• The '80s: Mike was 17 in 1989.
• Aesop Amnesia: The girls who are touched by the abstinence speech Mike gave to their course nevertheless try to entice him with sex subsequently on. Though one could say that they became even more attracted to him because of the speech.
• Age-Down Romance: Mike is anile downwards twenty years from 37 to 17. When he starts attending high school again in the present twenty-four hours he'southward a Chick Magnet (due to existence played by Zac Efron). He has to deal with an Unwanted Harem of teenage girls including his own girl, who are attracted to him and don't know his existent historic period. This trope is 1-sided: he is non interested in any of these girls, instead trying to win over his wife, who at present thinks he'southward a loftier school pupil who weirdly resembles her husband and Likes Older Women.
• All Guys Want Cheerleaders:
  • Averted with Scarlet and Maggie. Neither are cheerleaders despite the fact that they engagement the captains of the basketball team in their respective decades. The bodily cheerleaders appear to be Mike's pals and/or background dancers.
  • Only then of course in that location's Alex who does have a major crush on the head cheerleader Nicole, and actually gets her.
• Almighty Janitor: With a title similar 17 Again, it was inevitable.
• Aw, Wait! They Actually Practice Dear Each Other: Mike finally proving to Carmine who he is and that everything he has done was to help his family.
• Be Conscientious What You Wish For: Mike O'Donnell wishes that he could go back in time to alter his life. Courtesy of a whirlpool, he does, by turning into his 17-year-old self, which is not what he had in mind.
• Exist Yourself: Ned's pursuit of the principal is ineffectual equally long as he'due south playing upwardly his Human being of Wealth and Sense of taste persona; it's only afterwards he reveals himself to be a Lovable Nerd that they connect, as she's a cupboard nerd equally well.
• Bittersweet 17: A washed-upwards divorcee is returned to his 17-year-old trunk in club to affect change in his life when it was most important.
• Bookends: Mike is playing basketball, Cerise walks into the room, he resumes playing basketball, she starts to go out, he abandons the ball and chases after her. The parallel plays out upwardly until the dramatic twirl, when he strains his back and has to put her down.
• Bratty Teenage Girl: Mike is not well respected at all by his daughter Maggie, who speaks to him with impudence.
• Brainless Beauty: Most of the girls who chase afterwards Mike.
• Bully Magnet: Alex is bullied past Stan even at his own domicile.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Alex is incredibly bad-mannered with girls and can't hold a conversation with his vanquish Nicole without saying something weird, similar complimenting her pilus by comparing her to his dogs.
• Chick Magnet: 17-year-old Mike manages to concenter the (unwanted) attending of multiple high school girls, including his own girl, in the present solar day. Run across Unwanted Harem below.
• Closet Geek: The master, Jane Masterson, who Ned Gold spends the movie trying to win over, is a big fan of the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars franchises, and corrects Ned regarding Gandalf the Greyness, from the one-time, beingness Gandalf the White in Ii Towers.
• Cultural Translation: In the trailer, Michael says to his friend, "Y'all await like Dirt Aiken!". In the Russian version of the trailer, his line was replaced with "Yous look similar Elton John!". Plain, this is done because nigh Russian viewers don't picket American Idol and have absolutely no idea who the hell Dirt Aiken is, while Elton John is quite famous. But the problem is that this guy does resemble Dirt and in fact doesn't await like Elton.

• Earthworks Yourself Deeper: Happens quite often with Mike.

  Mike: [absent-mindedly] You're an fantabulous dancer.
  Crimson: Excuse me?
  Mike: [backtracking] Uh... I mean... y'all look like yous tin can really move. [barely refrains from facepalming]

• Distracted by the Sexy: Scarlet's first run-in with 17-twelvemonth-quondam Mike. She'south so dumbstruck over how much he looks like a younger version of her husband that she ignores her friend's advice to stop acting like a fool. She eventually has to be physically stopped from going over to scent him. It helps that she's also quite boozer, having just returned from a "happy hr" with her friend.
• Flexibility Equals Sex Ability: Lauren, one of Maggie's friends, flirts with Mike by bragging she'due south so flexible she got kicked off the cheerleading squad.
• Fountain of Youth: Mike falls into the river, and comes out of it in his 17-year-former body.
• Full-Proper noun Ultimatum: "Margaret Sarah O'Donnell!"
• Geeky Turn-On: After trying lavish schemes to win over the heart of Principal Jane, Ned finally captures her heart when he speaks Elvish to her... and she replies in the same way.
• Genre Savvy: Ned is particularly well-versed on what kind of fiction tropes would've triggered Mike's transformation, as shown when he tries to figure out:

  Ned: Are you now, or accept y'all always been, a Norse god, vampire, or time-traveling cyborg?
  Mike: Yous've known me since, what, first class? Maybe I would accept told y'all.
  Ned: Vampire wouldn't tell... cyborg wouldn't know.

• Gilligan Cut: When Mike convinces Ned to pose as his dad and enroll him in loftier schoolhouse. Used in both the picture show and the trailer.
• Daughter Posse: Maggie has a trio of friends who hang effectually her composed of Jamie, Samantha and Lauren.

• Jerk Jock: Maggie O'Donnell is going out with Stan, captain of the basketball team, bully, and petty douche.
• Kissing Cousins: Technically, Maggie attempts to invoke this relationship with "Marking Gold", supposedly the son of her uncle Ned. Although "Mark" and Maggie wouldn't actually be related every bit Ned and Mike are only friends, not siblings. The kids only telephone call him Uncle Ned.
• Likes Older Women: Due to his attraction to Scarlet, this is how 17-year quondam Mike'southward tastes would appear to everyone else.
• Manchild: Ned is an fantabulous example. All the same holding on his geeky interests, spends all day playing video games, refused to get out unless Mike absolutely needs him to, eats entirely junk food, has little social skills, and doesn't have whatever other companion aside from Mike. The simply reason he doesn't accept his parents looking over him was considering he is rich, which may or may not be inherited money or being a Self-Made Man. Justified every bit he was bullied in loftier school.
• Mirror Reveal: Mike drives home afterwards falling into a river, looks into the mirror while showering the mud off of his clothes, and sees his transformed teenage cocky in the mirror, causing him to freak out.
• Mistaken for Gay: Maggie concludes that (17-twelvemonth-quondam) Mike is gay after he is plain squicked past her advances.

• Nerds Speak Klingon: The wealthy but nerdy Ned tries several lavish schemes to win over the heart of the principal, but all fail. He finally captures her heart when he speaks Elvish to her... and she replies in the same fashion.
• Overprotective Dad: Mike stands up for his daughter on multiple occasions. Hell, 1 of his attempts to protect his girl ends up on YouTube.
• Papa Wolf: Don't make fun of Mike's son, Alex while the latter is watching.
• Parental Incest: Mike's daughter falls for him briefly, admitting without knowing that he'southward her dad. Thankfully information technology goes no further than that.
• Parents equally People: Both of the O'Donnell parents are shown equally flawed and sympathetic. Justified past the fact Mike and Cherry were both teenage parents, and unprepared to deal with raising kids. Mike needing to go over this is the whole indicate of the movie.
• "The Reason Y'all Suck" Speech: Mike gives ane to Stan the first time they talk, utterly annihilating him in front of the entire lunchroom. It begins with a Stealth Insult, followed by three cited Freudian Excuses for Stan'south Jerk Jock personality.
• Sexy Soaked Shirt: When Mike returns home and looks in the mirror, he sees his seventeen-twelvemonth-old cocky completely soaking moisture... and wearing a complete accommodate.
• Shout-Out:
  • Mike claims to be the illegitimate son of his best friend, Ned - or, equally they repeatedly refer to him, "a bastard". Guess what touchstone of nerd culture also centers around Ned's bounder?
  • When Ned and "Mark" walk into courtroom in the trial of Mike and Cherry-red'south divorce:
  • When Ned mistakes the newly transformed Mike for a thief.
  • When Mike wakes up after taking a punch from Stan in his girl's bed, he recounts the events so far as a horrible nightmare he had, only to realize it wasn't a dream and his daughter is hit on him.
  • Mike is tricked into the magical whirlpool that turns his age back when he sees his "spirit guide" apparently committing suicide off the bridge.
• Single Woman Seeks Practiced Man: Maggie gets the hots for 17-year-onetime Mike, whom she doesn't realize is her male parent, because he comforts her when Stan breaks upward with her considering she didn't desire to have sex.
• Stacy'due south Mom: Mark, actually Mike in a 17-twelvemonth-onetime body, isn't actually a teen attracted to an older adult female, simply that'south what Mike claims when his son, Alex, catches him talking nearly her.
• Set Right What Once Went Incorrect: Subverted. Mike/Mark thinks this is what he is supposed to exercise, regarding making his ain life better by getting the scholarship; simply then he realizes that he could be improving his children's lives instead. Eventually, he makes the same decision which he did twenty years earlier, and reunites with Scarlet.

• The Talk: Mike gives an abstinence talk in health grade. Ironically, it would accept been even more effective if he was an developed, equally he is a poster boy for what happens to your life because of teen pregnancy.
• That Was Not a Dream: In a Shout-Out to Back to the Future, Mike deliriously tells his daughter that he dreamed he was 17 again.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: Literally. Teen!Mike makes himself a huge sandwich, then leaves after just one bite.
• Time Marches On: Compare the 1989 cheerleaders with the subsequently ones. Also, guys fighting in school would have been common enough back in 1989, but everyone recording the fight on their hand-held devices and uploading it to YouTube nowadays is kind of a new feature.
• Fourth dimension-Shifted Player: Mike, Ned and Scarlet accept different actors for their teenagers and developed versions, although Ned and Scarlet teen versions are simply seen in the opening.
  • Teen Mike is played by Zac Efron, while his developed version is played past Matthew Perry
  • Teen Ned is played by Tyler Steelman, while his adult version is played by Thomas Lennon
  • Teen Blood-red is played by Allison Miller, while her adult version is played by Leslie Isle of man
• Trust Password: Subverted. Mike gives several to Ned when trying to prove his identity, and Ned gives reasons why each one could've been faked. Information technology takes looking at a flick of them both during their loftier school days to convince him.
• Unwanted Harem: Several school girls and eventually, his daughter and his somewhat dislocated married woman, fall for Mark, really Mike.
• Wild Teen Party: Marker hosts a massive party at Ned'due south house after the basketball game.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: The present seems to take place in 2009, which would exist 20 years after Cherry's pregnancy, which would make Maggie xix years erstwhile—nevertheless she's still in high school; hence, no actual "at present" appointment is given later on the Fourth dimension Skip. Besides, though Vanilla Ice wasn't entirely unheard of in 1989, information technology wasn't actually until the next year that he hitting it big and would accept been known well enough for Mike'south coach to telephone call him "Vanilla Ice" while telling him to knock off his antics with the cheerleaders.
  • A theory for this is included in the WMG page; Scarlet may have miscarried their first kid, which reinforces the reasons their spousal relationship is however in trouble as they tried to innovate children to set an already strained human relationship.
  • Or... not. The movie was released in 2009, only Scarlet specifically mentions Mike'south been lament almost their situation for 18 years, so more probable the story's "present" is actually set at old during the 2007-2008 school year.
• You lot're Non My Male parent: Maggie says to Mark that he's not her father after Marking forbids Maggie from moving in with Stan. She has no idea that he actually is her father.

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