13 Going On 30

I liked it which I am scared to say! I hate people that say it is a big rip off don't get that at all???????? this is about going to the future when big woke up and he was older?? connection how?
 
the big comparisons come from the fact that its meant to be a child in an adults body and hence the situations that can happen are similar in both films but i think this film is much more a romantic comedy that big!

I got to agree i really liked it and im not ashamed its a film to watch when you want to switch your brain off for 90mins and relax
 
Uh...look at the scene where Jennifer Garner sticks her torso out of the stretch limosine. If that's not a Big reference, I don't know what is!

Big was a bodyswap comedy, this is a bodyswap comedy. A young person wishes they could escape the confines of youth and wakes up, trapped in a older person's body, forced to deal with the problems of love and a career. Said character learns maturity as the film progresses but comes to miss their lost youth. Inevitably, they get their wish and return to their previous age.

I've just described the plot to 13 Going on 30. And, whaddya know?, Big too.

There's your connection.

Incidentally, the 'will-they, wont- they' aspect of 13 Going on 30 is completely redundant since there's no doubt Jennifer Garner's character will return to 13. After all, it's unusal for our protagonist's happy ending to consist of losing 17 years of her life. We therefore know that she'll have a second chance with Mark Ruffalo's character, regardless of whether she screws it up as a 30 year old.

Whoops, maybe I'm thinking about this sort of lightweight fluff too much. All I know is, Big was a lot more heartfelt.
 
I absolutely loved it. I forced my boyfriend to take me to the cinema to see it - He was not happy it was only 12 year old girls and us there! But we laughed all the way through at the 80s jokes and style all the kiRAB kept looking at us really strangely coz they didn't get it.

Jennifer Garner is good and Mark Ruffalo is totally yummy. A nice feel good yarn. Actually I might watch it later. :)
 
It has the best use of Michael Jackson's Thriller song ever. That is the best bit in the movie. A lovable non-violent kinda feel-good movie.....
 
Although when you think about it, if she's 13 when the movie starts and wakes up in the future (i.e. the present day) as 30 why is she so fond of "Thriller," "Love Is A Battlefield" and "Jessie's Girl" - all big hits around 1982-83 - and no one wonders about it back then? You'd think a teenage girl of her age in 1987 (the movie came out last year, remember) would be more into the current stuff. (I think someone else must have noticed - see how Jennifer Garner sings a bit of Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" in the party scene? Now that does make sense for her character, since that was a hit around the time.)
 
i quite liked it, its easy to watch, there's no violence and its funny in places

And i agree with swirlygirl Mark Ruffalo is very droolsome. He's going to be in another romcom soon with Reese Witherspoon called Just Like Heaven.

http://www.justlikeheaven-themovie.com/

its got Napoleon Dynamite in too being he's usually ODD self, and looking completely different!
 
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