Zac Efron's '17 Again' is a familar but fun ride  Follow on
Twitter on April 17, 2009 at 5:00 AM, updated June 23, 2009 at
2:46 PM Zac Efron realizes something isn't quite right in the
'switch' comedy '17 Again.'  OK, who made a wish on a magical
ornamental skull? Or dropped a quarter into a magical carnival
fortune-telling machine? Or ate a magical fortune cookie?
Because I know we've been here before.  And so the temptation is
great to write off "17 Again" as just the latest tired spin on
the well-trodden "switch" movie concept, whereby a young person
becomes suddenly old, an old person becomes suddenly young again
- or both. Think "Big" or "Freaky Friday" or "Vice Versa" or "18
Again!" or "Like Father, Like Son" or "Dream a Little Dream."
(Feel free to play along at home.  Scene-stealing funnyman
Thomas Lennon ("Reno 911") acknowledges as much in "17 Again,"
after Matthew Perry ("Friends") wakes up as his formerly virile
self, played by teen heartthrob Zac Efron ("High School
Musical").  "Classic transform