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High Noon: ‘17 Again’

Review: Review: '17 Again': Light in substance, the movie doesn't support heavyweight stars Zac Efron, Matthew Perry/L.A. Times.

More Info: The movie, which makes high school seem only slightly less grim than "Lord of the Flies," tries to deal with teen sexuality and social pressures, but it's the same old song, sung out of key. The standard venal cliques are in place. If a film recycles images of the psychopathic jock boyfriend with the soul of a date rapist, or the Bratz-knockoff slutettes setting the fashion standard for the girls, at some point it risks not just reusing and commenting on these tropes but reinforcing them.

Question: Would you like to be 17 again? Why? Why not?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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