Since Zac Efron has the chops to make it in movies (see Hairspray and the upcoming Me and Orson Welles), it's a damn shame that 17 Again is such a lame-ass rip-off of Tom Hanks' Big. Efron plays Mike, once a high school basketball hotshot till his girlfriend, Scarlet, says she's pregnant. Then, zap! Mike is 37, played by a hangdog Matthew Perry, and settled in a job he hates, two teen kids who hate him and an impending divorce from Scarlet (Leslie Mann, doing wonders with nothing). Zap two! Mike
