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What is this?
My mom owns the movie, I was bored one day and had nothing to do so I went downstairs to burrow some movies, and I found this movie. It blew...Tom Hanks Big was better then this could ever be. Jennifer whatever her name is is not a very good actress. Alot of teenagers have troblue growing up but so what we get over it and turn to older and get over those moments that is what school is about. I cant belive people picked this movie, but then again I cant understand why Bush was picked for President...like the person said when I looked down and saw that..But the movie wasnt so good one bit..I thought it was stupid. But then again what chick flick is not stupid?

Lots of fluff and not much else
Jenna Rink is a 13-year old who isn't really enjoying adolescent life. (But then, who does?) She's unpopular, a bit of a dork, and only has one real friend: her next-door neighbor, Matt. After an embarrassing incident at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna frantically wishes to be grown-up and successful.

The next morning, Jenna wakes up to find her wish has come true-she's magically transformed into her adult self. After the initial panic, she realizes that she's living the life she's always wanted-she's gorgeous, popular, an editor at a big fashion magazine, and she's dating a hockey player from the New York Rangers. Of course, she has no memory of how she got to this point in her life. As she tries to discover who she is by going through old yearbooks and talking with people, she learns that she doesn't like the person she's become. It turns out that 30-year-old Jenna is selfish, conniving, and manipulative. She's no longer friends with her childhood friend, Matt, she doesn't speak to her parents, and she's heartless when dealing with people in her career. Jenna soon realizes that her wish may be permanent and goes about trying to make things right.

The concept of the film is cute enough, but the execution is a little shaky. Many times throughout the film, new information is introduced, but then the movie doesn't do anything with that information or explain why things are a certain way (for example, Jenna learns early on that she's not in contact with her parents, but it's never clear exactly what happened to cause that). Also, it's very obvious that the movie is based on "Big." I expected that. What I didn't expect were direct rip-offs of the Tom Hanks film. This movie took some of its gags directly from its predecessor-from checking out new "adult" body parts, to standing up in a limousine, to not knowing what to do with hors d'ourves at a company cocktail party. And these jokes didn't work as well this time around. With the exception of a very funny scene involving a cell phone and a few other gems, the movie had very few original gags-which is a shame, because the movie could have been great if they'd come up with some more original material. Another problem: because of its close relationship to "Big," this film is almost excruciatingly predictable.

The movie isn't very long-about 90 minutes or so-but the pacing seemed off to me. The first hour or so moved almost too quickly, and then the last half hour really seemed to drag. And the highlight of the film-a group Thriller dance at a company party-occurred less than an hour into the story, so it all seemed to go downhill from there.

I will say this: if nothing else, 13 Going On 30 was cute. So if you enjoy light, fluffy movies without much substance-and don't mind a few plot holes here and there-then it's worth checking out. Otherwise, skip it.

A different side of Alias' Jennifer Garner
A good comedy looking into what happens when a young girl wishes to be "30 something" and that wish comes true.

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