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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.

Comments

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

I have possibly disturbing dork!love for that movie. And it actually made me cry, in the scene where she goes back to her parents' house and hides in the closet and hugs her parents and waaaaaaah. Because, yes, I'm a big, old sap.

I was all, 'awww, this movie is actually kind of sweet and nice', but then they had to get *married* and live in that damn house aaaaargh! Because it meant, most likely, that they'd been together since they were *thirteen* and that by itself is kind of a 'wtf?' in my books, but the added, 'wait, they were together since then but only now got married and moved in together in their effing dream house? Ugh.' Possibly reading too much into it.

I actually prefer this version to Big. Because of said sappiness, and the thirteen-year-old girl's cuteness and freaky Jennifer Garnerness.

[spicedrum.livejournal.com]

I actually prefer this version to Big. Because of said sappiness, and the thirteen-year-old girl's cuteness and freaky Jennifer Garnerness.

Ditto. Plus, I hate Tom Hanks. He was cool when Big came out, but since then he's turned into a pretentious ass.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

it's totally a guilty pleasure movie for me, too. i try not to think about the ending at all :) i blame everything on the fact that i have a soft spot for mark ruffalo, but to be completely honest i love the whole cheesy thing.