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[doyle]

Anchorman isn't on release here yet, so thecount_ha and I rented 13 Going on 30. I was a bit leery of a romantic comedy where the female side of the romance is thirteen, even if she looks like Jennifer Garner. thecount_ha was intrigued by this very same concept. About five minutes in, one thing was clear: this film could bear the coveted title of Most Predictable Movie of All Time.


- Andy Serkis is in the opening credits. He's English, so his character will be either gay or the bad guy. (Gay, it turns out.)
- young-Jenna dances to Thriller. Garner-Jenna will no doubt dance to Thriller at a trendy nightclub and people will initially laugh but will be so wowed by her sense of fun that they all join in and have a jolly-gosh great time. And they will all know the dance even though Thriller was released the year I was born. (On that, isn't 1987 a bit late for Thriller and Rick Springfield obsession?)
- her geeky boy-next-door best friend will grow up hot and be her love interest. The hot guy she loved in high school will turn out to be ugly to illustrate the important moral of the story: good people are beautiful. Bad people are ugly. Don't be shallow in high school: save that shallowness for later in life when you're *sure* the guy's going to turn out hot.
- the bitchy girl in the first scene will be her backstabbing best friend when they grow up.
- montages, montages, montages.
- Garner-Jenna will have a boyfriend. He will get naked and/or try to shag her. Hilarity will ensue.
- Jenna's child-like naivete will make her an instant success at her job, rather than getting her fired or dispatched to a mental health clinic
- just when everything's gone terribly wrong she'll get covered in wishing dust again and find herself right back at thirteen.
- and then we'll get a flash-forward to her new thirty-year-old self married to her perfect guy (with no mention of whether she still has her dream career in this reality)

Mind you, I didn't predict they'd actually be living in a replica of the dreamhouse Matt made for her at 13, because that's a cheese too far.

On the positive side, erm... I assume it's a decent movie if you like Jennifer Garner. And the little girl in the first scene's pretty good, and looks eerily like a 13-year-old JG.

Eh, I liked this movie better when it was called Big.

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[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

*confuddled* You mean in the film she shoots forward 17 years? I thought she just woke up 30... though now that I come to think of it, her parents would probably have something to say about. I think I thought she woke up in an alternate universe.

Why I waste speculations on films I'll never see, I do not know.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she wakes up having lived the past 17 years but not able to remember them. Now, you'd think that her friends would assume she'd hit her head and was suffering amnesia, but they must assume it's just that quirky Jenna...