Trailer Analysis - 17 Again

17 AGAIN 


Trailer starts with a non-gigantic background music which adjusts environment to a normal day & then after a second a big fancy house is shown with 2 cool cars on it’s porch. Then two guys are shown one in a suit in his late 30’s which indicates he might have a white collar job while other guy is in a sweater & pretty much chilled even wearing hobbit ears which indicates that he might be a huge movie freak.  Further they are shown In a wide angle discussing Mike’s life (the guy in a suit). It’s shown then that Mike’s wife Scarlett kicked him out of the house & his children doesn’t much care about him while this discussion clips are shown of Scarlett throwing Mike’s stuff out of the house & Mike’s children ignore Mike. Then the conclusion comes that it’s all negative.

Scene Ends, now new scene begins this time with a narration we are shown that Mike is 37 years old & a failure. Lights are bright until now. Now with a wide shot Mike is shown going through his high school where he encounters an old man who tells him that you wished you had your life all over again & Mike with a close agrees with him. Now suddenly, whole scene changes & we see a lonely car on a bridge. Lights are dark & environment is spooky so is the background music & we see digital numbers on radio all shacking which gives few more creeps. Now we see Mike in that car & out of nowhere that old man in school is standing on the bridge maybe committing a suicide & when Mike’s see’s it with a steady cam he’s shown getting out of the car & tries to stop that old man but somehow with the wind slips & goes right into the river.



                  

Then, narrator tells that Mike gets his old life back like his age goes back about 20 years & he’s 17 again. After that we see match in action of footsteps all dirty & full of mud getting in a house, then standing in a bathtub washing himself when camera goes up & we see Zac Efron instead of Matthew Perry who seems like the 17 year version of Mike. And when Mike realizes that he’s 17 again he screams in front of a mirror. Next thing is shown that Mike’s friend tells hi that it’s freaking him out while Mike in a higher tone tells him it’s freaking him out. Mike after figuring tells that it’s his chance to do it right  go back to high school with a close up while we see clips of Mike playing basketball in background from which we can state out that he was a basketball champion back in high school. His friend with an over the shoulder is shown telling Mike not to drag him but next thing we see that friend enrolling Mike to high school as his father while Mike trying to to be cool adds “Sup” as in what’s up. Trying to be cool Mike is wearing hip but after some girls makes fun of him. Next thing we are shown that Mike bring a new sports car & gets a new cool look & girls seems quite attracted to him & Mike nervously waves at his daughter who doesn’t recognizes him because of age factor. However, Mike’s shown being bullied by some football players & next thing we know that back in there house he’s eating too much because he’s hungry all the time where again light are bright. Narrator narrates that Mike’s back in the game & Mike is introduced to Scarlett by his son. When Scarlett notices him she grabs Mike’s face & weirdly tells that he resembles so much of her husband. Then Maggie (Mike’s daughter) is shown with a boy his boyfriend who bullies her little brother & when Mike confronts him she screams “ who do you think you are, my father ?” while this conversation Maggie’s shown kissing her boyfriend & her boyfriend bullying her little brother in cafeteria maybe. Next thing we’re shown Mike interrupting Maggie & his boyfriend all the time sometimes by throwing water o them & sometimes picking a fight with him & all these clips are shown for like a second or so. When Mike’s friend asks who won the fight now in a wide shot Mike replies it was even but friend confronts him “ on youtube it seemed he was kicking your butt”.

Narrator now tells that new line cinema presents where Mike interrupts him 7 tells Maggie that “ When you’re young everything feels like the end of the world but it’s not, it’s just the beginning ”. While Mike’s quoting some party clips by wide angle & shown close ups of Mike’ children are shown & even Mike’s shown dancing having fun whereas over light’s are bright as the genre is romantic comedy . Now in the last scene when Mike’s son tells  his mom that he made it to basketball team, Scarlett hugs him & even Mike hugs both of them then  Scarletts tells mike it’s super inappropriate. Trailer ends here & narrator tells the title & releasing date of the movie.