Recap: Its the 25 year reunion from high school. Peggy Sue is about to divorce her high school sweetheart Charlie Bodell. But at the reunion she faints and suddenly wakes up in high school, but with all the memories from her life. With this knowledge, she is given a second chance to guide her life in another direction.
Comments: Now, twenty years after its release, its kind of like watching a reunion of sorts with stars like Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage, Jim Carrey, Joan Allen, Helen Hunt and Sofia Coppola in early roles. And although it is a fairly sweet and cute romantic comedy, it is this flashback that entertains me most. Cage and Carrey are barely more than kids, very different but also very much resembling themselves today. In fact, it is funny to see the reunion when all the young actors been dressed and wearing make-up to look old.
In itself, the movie is just average. Sweet and cute, sure, but nothing extraordinary. A few smiles is all it produces. Mostly it focuses on relationships and the choices Peggy Sue has to make, and it does not make good comedy. Romantic? Nah, not really either. In all it is pretty average, and so it gets an average rating from me.
5/10
Comments: Now, twenty years after its release, its kind of like watching a reunion of sorts with stars like Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage, Jim Carrey, Joan Allen, Helen Hunt and Sofia Coppola in early roles. And although it is a fairly sweet and cute romantic comedy, it is this flashback that entertains me most. Cage and Carrey are barely more than kids, very different but also very much resembling themselves today. In fact, it is funny to see the reunion when all the young actors been dressed and wearing make-up to look old.
In itself, the movie is just average. Sweet and cute, sure, but nothing extraordinary. A few smiles is all it produces. Mostly it focuses on relationships and the choices Peggy Sue has to make, and it does not make good comedy. Romantic? Nah, not really either. In all it is pretty average, and so it gets an average rating from me.
5/10