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"Well, of course I want to live in the past. Information technology was better there."

17 Again is a 2009 American comedy film.

Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is the Large Man on Campus. He's the star of the high school basketball squad, his girlfriend is the hottest girl in school, and he's about to be offered a scholarship. But his life takes a turn for the worse after he discovers his girlfriend is pregnant.

Flash Forward twenty years, and Mike (Matthew Perry)'south life hasn't improved. His married woman Blood-red (Leslie Mann) has kicked him out, his kids Alex (Sterling Knight) and Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg) both hate him, he's merely been fired, and he's living with his geeky only much richer best friend Ned Gold (Thomas Lennon). Afterward going to his old schoolhouse to selection upwardly his kids, Mike is approached by a mysterious janitor (Brian Doyle-Murray) whom he tells that he'd do anything to relive the Glory Days. On his style abode, Mike sees the same janitor about to bound off a bridge. Rushing to relieve him, he topples over the edge and lands in a whirlpool.

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

Not to be confused for the twelvemonth 2000 film Seventeen Once 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 voice communication Mike gave to their course still try to entice him with sex later on. Though one could say that they became even more than attracted to him considering of the speech.
• Age-Down Romance: Mike is aged downwards twenty years from 37 to 17. When he starts attention loftier school once more in the nowadays twenty-four hour period he's a Chick Magnet (due to being played by Zac Efron). He has to deal with an Unwanted Harem of teenage girls including his own daughter, who are attracted to him and don't know his real age. This trope is one-sided: he is not interested in any of these girls, instead trying to win over his married woman, who now thinks he's a high school student who weirdly resembles her hubby and Likes Older Women.
• All Guys Want Cheerleaders:
  • Averted with Ruby-red and Maggie. Neither are cheerleaders despite the fact that they engagement the captains of the basketball game team in their respective decades. The actual cheerleaders announced to be Mike's pals and/or background dancers.
  • But then of class there's Alex who does accept a major crush on the head cheerleader Nicole, and actually gets her.
• Almighty Janitor: With a title similar 17 Again, it was inevitable.
• Aw, Expect! They Really Practice Honey Each Other: Mike finally proving to Red who he is and that everything he has done was to help his family.
• Be Careful 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 non what he had in mind.
• Be Yourself: Ned's pursuit of the principal is ineffectual as long as he'southward playing up his Man of Wealth and Gustatory modality persona; it's just after he reveals himself to be a Lovable Nerd that they connect, as she'south a closet nerd as well.
• Bloodshot 17: A washed-up divorcee is returned to his 17-year-old body in order to affect change in his life when information technology was near of import.
• Bookends: Mike is playing basketball, Crimson walks into the room, he resumes playing basketball, she starts to get out, he abandons the ball and chases afterward her. The parallel plays out up until the dramatic twirl, when he strains his back and has to put her down.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: 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 afterward Mike.
• Bully Magnet: Alex is bullied by Stan even at his own home.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Alex is incredibly awkward with girls and can't hold a conversation with his vanquish Nicole without saying something weird, like complimenting her hair by comparing her to his dogs.
• Chick Magnet: 17-yr-quondam Mike manages to attract the (unwanted) attention of multiple high schoolhouse girls, including his own girl, in the present twenty-four hour period. Run across Unwanted Harem beneath.
• Closet Geek: The principal, 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 Gray, from the old, being Gandalf the White in Two Towers.
• Cultural Translation: In the trailer, Michael says to his friend, "You wait similar Clay Aiken!". In the Russian version of the trailer, his line was replaced with "Yous wait like Elton John!". Apparently, this is washed because virtually Russian viewers don't watch American Idol and have absolutely no thought 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 look like Elton.

• Digging Yourself Deeper: Happens quite often with Mike.

  Mike: [absent-mindedly] Y'all're an excellent dancer.
  Scarlet: Alibi me?
  Mike: [backtracking] Uh... I mean... you look like you lot tin can really motility. [barely refrains from facepalming]

• Distracted by the Sexy: Scarlet's offset run-in with 17-year-old Mike. She's so dumbstruck over how much he looks like a younger version of her husband that she ignores her friend's communication to finish acting similar a fool. She somewhen has to be physically stopped from going over to smell him. It helps that she'south also quite boozer, having just returned from a "happy hour" with her friend.
• Flexibility Equals Sex Ability: Lauren, one of Maggie's friends, flirts with Mike by bragging she'due south then 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-one-time trunk.
• Full-Proper noun Ultimatum: "Margaret Sarah O'Donnell!"
• Geeky Plough-On: Subsequently trying lavish schemes to win over the centre of Principal Jane, Ned finally captures her middle when he speaks Elvish to her... and she replies in the same manner.
• Genre Savvy: Ned is particularly well-versed on what kind of fiction tropes would've triggered Mike'due south transformation, every bit shown when he tries to figure out:

  Ned: Are y'all now, or take you always been, a Norse god, vampire, or fourth dimension-traveling cyborg?
  Mike: You've known me since, what, first grade? Maybe I would have told you.
  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 school. Used in both the movie and the trailer.
• Girl Posse: Maggie has a trio of friends who hang around her composed of Jamie, Samantha and Lauren.

• Jerk Jock: Maggie O'Donnell is going out with Stan, helm of the basketball team, bully, and piddling douche.
• Kissing Cousins: Technically, Maggie attempts to invoke this relationship with "Mark Gold", supposedly the son of her uncle Ned. Although "Marking" and Maggie wouldn't actually exist related as Ned and Mike are only friends, not siblings. The kids just telephone call him Uncle Ned.
• Likes Older Women: Due to his attraction to Scarlet, this is how 17-year old Mike's tastes would appear to everyone else.
• Manchild: Ned is an excellent instance. Even so holding on his geeky interests, spends all day playing video games, refused to leave unless Mike absolutely needs him to, eats entirely junk food, has little social skills, and doesn't accept any other companion bated from Mike. The only reason he doesn't have his parents looking over him was because he is rich, which may or may not be inherited coin or existence a Self-Fabricated Human. Justified every bit he was bullied in high school.
• Mirror Reveal: Mike drives home later falling into a river, looks into the mirror while showering the mud off of his clothes, and sees his transformed teenage self in the mirror, causing him to freak out.
• Mistaken for Gay: Maggie concludes that (17-year-quondam) Mike is gay afterward he is obviously squicked by her advances.

• Nerds Speak Klingon: The wealthy only nerdy Ned tries several lavish schemes to win over the heart of the principal, just all fail. He finally captures her centre when he speaks Elvish to her... and she replies in the same way.
• Overprotective Dad: Mike stands up for his daughter on multiple occasions. Hell, one of his attempts to protect his daughter ends up on YouTube.
• Papa Wolf: Don't brand fun of Mike'south son, Alex while the latter is watching.
• Parental Incest: Mike's daughter falls for him briefly, albeit without knowing that he's her dad. Thankfully it goes no farther than that.
• Parents every bit People: Both of the O'Donnell parents are shown every bit flawed and sympathetic. Justified by the fact Mike and Scarlet were both teenage parents, and unprepared to deal with raising kids. Mike needing to get over this is the whole point of the movie.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mike gives i to Stan the first time they talk, utterly annihilating him in front of the unabridged lunchroom. It begins with a Stealth Insult, followed by three cited Freudian Excuses for Stan's Jerk Jock personality.
• Sexy Soaked Shirt: When Mike returns domicile and looks in the mirror, he sees his seventeen-twelvemonth-former self completely soaking wet... and wearing a complete conform.
• Shout-Out:
  • Mike claims to exist the illegitimate son of his best friend, Ned - or, as they repeatedly refer to him, "a bastard". Guess what touchstone of nerd culture as well centers effectually Ned'south bounder?
  • When Ned and "Mark" walk into court in the trial of Mike and Blood-red'southward divorce:
  • When Ned mistakes the newly transformed Mike for a thief.
  • When Mike wakes upwards after taking a dial from Stan in his daughter'south bed, he recounts the events so far as a horrible nightmare he had, merely to realize information technology wasn't a dream and his girl is hitting on him.
  • Mike is tricked into the magical whirlpool that turns his historic period back when he sees his "spirit guide" plain committing suicide off the span.
• Single Adult female Seeks Good Homo: Maggie gets the hots for 17-year-former Mike, whom she doesn't realize is her father, because he comforts her when Stan breaks up with her because she didn't want to have sexual activity.
• Stacy'due south Mom: Mark, actually Mike in a 17-year-old body, isn't really a teen attracted to an older woman, but that'due south what Mike claims when his son, Alex, catches him talking near her.
• Ready Right What Once Went Incorrect: Subverted. Mike/Marker thinks this is what he is supposed to do, regarding making his own life better by getting the scholarship; but so he realizes that he could exist improving his children's lives instead. Somewhen, he makes the same decision which he did 20 years earlier, and reunites with Red.

• The Talk: Mike gives an abstinence talk in health course. Ironically, information technology would have been even more effective if he was an adult, as he is a affiche male child for what happens to your life considering of teen pregnancy.
• That Was Not a Dream: In a Shout-Out to Back to the Hereafter, Mike deliriously tells his girl that he dreamed he was 17 again.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: Literally. Teen!Mike makes himself a huge sandwich, and then leaves after only ane seize with teeth.
• Time Marches On: Compare the 1989 cheerleaders with the later ones. Also, guys fighting in schoolhouse would have been mutual enough back in 1989, simply everyone recording the fight on their hand-held devices and uploading it to YouTube nowadays is kind of a new characteristic.
• Time-Shifted Histrion: Mike, Ned and Scarlet accept unlike actors for their teenagers and adult versions, although Ned and Scarlet teen versions are only seen in the opening.
  • Teen Mike is played past Zac Efron, while his developed version is played past Matthew Perry
  • Teen Ned is played by Tyler Steelman, while his adult version is played past Thomas Lennon
  • Teen Ruddy is played by Allison Miller, while her developed version is played by Leslie Isle of man
• Trust Countersign: 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 movie of them both during their high school days to convince him.
• Unwanted Harem: Several schoolhouse girls and eventually, his girl and his somewhat confused married woman, fall for Mark, actually Mike.
• Wild Teen Party: Mark hosts a massive political party at Ned'south business firm after the basketball game.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: The nowadays seems to accept place in 2009, which would be 20 years later on Scarlet'due south pregnancy, which would make Maggie nineteen years old—yet she's still in high school; hence, no actual "now" date is given after the Time Skip. Also, though Vanilla Ice wasn't entirely unheard of in 1989, it wasn't actually until the next yr that he hit it big and would have been known well enough for Mike's coach to phone 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 starting time kid, which reinforces the reasons their marriage is still in problem equally they tried to introduce children to fix an already strained human relationship.
  • Or... not. The movie was released in 2009, but Scarlet specifically mentions Mike's been lament about their situation for eighteen years, then more likely the story'due south "present" is actually set at erstwhile during the 2007-2008 school year.
• You lot're Not My Father: Maggie says to Mark that he'due south not her begetter afterward Marking forbids Maggie from moving in with Stan. She has no thought that he actually is her father.

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