17 Again (2009)
Apr 16, 2009Ageswap Fantasy
Ageswap fantasy in which middle-aged Matthew Perry is rejuvenated as a teenage Zac Efron. A glib fantasy that seems made by abstinence campaigners
Burr Steers
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Jul 31, 2010Teenager Can See the Dead
A banal Zac Efron starring attempt to rewrite The Sixth Sense for the mopily sensitive teenage Gothic Chick Lit audience weaned on Twilight with Efron as a cemetery groundskeeper who talks to the dead
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Feb 7, 2016Jane Austen Retold with Zombies
Based on the book that led a publishing phenomenon in which literary classics are mashed up with monsters, this has the difficult balancing act – that of making Jane Austen's Regency romance sit alongside zombies – nevertheless manages to play both with an impeccably straight-face