Young Again
[3.67]
"Everyone's wish" "exploits" "getting your wishes" when you should be driving a "so great" "great vehicle", eating a "ice cream sundae", and "hitting on" (or "pretending to be") a "rockin' out" "hot girl" who you "started off liking" but now find "weird" and "silly"; sure, that idea has a "weird dynamic", but so does this movie at times (guilty of "cowtipping" "itself a bit").
Robert Urich gets his wish, or should we say, everyone's wish: to be Keanu! A light-hearted Disney movie about getting your wishes granted. One of the pleasant, unknown surprises that make Keanuthon so great. Best Keanu moment: Keanu rockin' out to the fifties classic, "Shout!"
I started off really liking this film, but once the weird dynamic of Keanu trying to hit on his older self's old girlfriend who happens to be the mother of a hot girl in high school who he should be hitting on, the movie sort of took a turn for the worse. The last half of the movie redeems itself a bit, because it makes you ponder, "If you could go back and do it all over again with what you know now, would you be any better off?" It does have a lot of Keanu, and he is good in it, so for that, it gets a "whoooa"
Great vehicle for Keanu (unlike, for example, a Gremlin). Sure, some of the time he is pretending to be Robert Urich, but mostly that Keanu charm shines through. Further debunks and exploits the myth of cowtipping. First attempt by Keanu to get an older woman to go out with him by using an ice cream sundae as bait ("Tune in Tomorrow"). Although Robert Urich does get the girl, Keanu scores her for him (which is so completely weird). One of those "high concept" movies which sounds pretty silly on paper, then when made turns out to be pretty silly. Maybe we should all just "Shout" it out.
