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Movies that feel like17 Again (2009)

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

If you loved 17 Again, the closest films we have are Into the Woods (2014), The Visitors (1993) and The Brand New Testament (2015). All three share 17 Again's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014).

🍅 57% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Burr Steerswittyplayfuldreamlike
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Into the Woods
2014 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 71%★ 5.9fantasy · comedyDisney+

Witty and playful in the same breath

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

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The Visitors
1993 · dir. Jean-Marie Poiré
🍅 31%★ 7fantasy · comedyPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: time travel

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.

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The Brand New Testament
2015 · dir. Jaco Van Dormael
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · fantasy

Dreamlike comedy in both cases

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 76%★ 6.6comedy · fantasyMax

Witty fantasy, and it commits to that

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.

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Liar Liar
1997 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 83%★ 6.9comedy · fantasyNetflix

Comedy built on play, twice over

Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.

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🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than 17 Again does

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

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If I Were You
2006 · dir. Daniel Filho
🍅 13%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

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Ted 2
2015 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 45%★ 6.3comedy · fantasyRent or buy

Fantasy built on play, twice over

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

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When We First Met
2018 · dir. Ari Sandel
🍅 45%★ 6.4comedy · romance · fantasyNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: do over

The difference: Sits closer to romance than 17 Again does

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

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Ghostbusters II
1989 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 57%★ 6.6comedy · fantasyHulu

The shared currency is dream logic

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1980s show

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

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Nothing Left to Do But Cry
1984 · dir. Massimo Troisi
★ 7.6comedy · fantasy

Comedy in the same key

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

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The Invention of Lying
2009 · dir. Ricky Gervais
🍅 56%★ 6.4comedy · fantasy · romance

Both working the same fantasy territory

Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

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