| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...loaded with high fructose corn syrup so the girls will like it ..." more... |
C |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...pleasant, harmless PG-13 entertainment, with a plot a little more surprising and acting a little better than I expected." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"High school fantasy near bottom of its class." more... |
C- |
E! Online
Natasha Vargas-Cooper |
"...essentially a flipbook of Zac Efron pictures with some sound thrown over it." more... |
B- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...lame..." more... |
C- |
Filmcritic.com
Blake French |
"There's plenty of depth and material to entertain an older audience, as as you can get past the fact that you're watching a Zac Efron film." more... |
B+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Despite occasional misfires, this Zac Efron comedy earns its laughs and delivers its life lessons." more... |
B |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...the sort of movie where you take your pleasures where you can find them." more... |
C |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
"An adult transforms into his teen idol, er, adolescent self..." more... |
C |
Reelviews
James Berardinelli |
"The target audience is roughly the same as for Hannah Montana: The Movie, and the quality is in the same neighborhood as well." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"The credit goes to Efron, a teen idol who has girls shrieking in the theater from his first close-up but who is also an actor and proves it over the course of the picture." more... |
B |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"For a swoon-fest aimed at tweens, 17 Again has a lot going for it." more... |
B- |
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