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I thought this would be a same ole same ole chick flick. But even my husband got a kick out of this movie. We all made the same wish when we where young to be adults, this makes you see what if we really got that wish. A great movie to add to a collection. It's 1987, and the only thing cute-but-slightly awkward Jenna Rink (played by Christa B. Allen as a girl) wants for her 13th birthday -- besides a date with Rick Springfield -- is to be cool. But when the popular girls ruin her party, she finds herself wishing to leave her teenage angst behind and just be 30 instead. Zap! The next morning, Jenna (now Jennifer Garner) wakes up in 2004, having skipped over the last 17 years and landed plunk in the middle of her dream life: fancy Manhattan apartment, closet full of designer clothes, plum executive editor job at fashion magazine Poise. But it doesn't take 13-year-old Jenna long to discover that her 30-year-old self isn't a very nice person. With the help of childhood best friend Matt (Mark Ruffalo) -- who was unceremoniously ditched long ago in Jenna's pursuit of popularity -- Jenna does her best to navigate the challenges of her new life and fix the mistakes she can't remember making. Not only does Garner throw herself wholeheartedly into the film's physical comedy sequences (the "Thriller" scene is of particular note), but she also makes Jenna's initial confusion about -- and gradual delight with -- her new life completely believable. Like Tom Hanks in Big, Garner is wholly convincing as a kid stuck in a grown-up's body; her earnest, wide-eyed expressions and gawky movements ring true. Ruffalo has an understated appeal as Matt, the hipster photographer whose inner fat kid is still insecure and very afraid of having his heart stomped on again. He makes Matt's gradual warming to Jenna's mix of helplessness and sunny optimism seem inevitable. Judy Greer is perfect as Jenna's two-faced friend Lucy, and Andy Serkis (that's Gollum to you), who plays Jenna's boss Richard, is like a hyper, more dapper version of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean.Read full review
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a dream apartment, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. Unfortunetly, Jenna realizes that this is not what she wanted. The only one that she needs is her childhood best friend, Matt, a boy that she thought destroyed her party. But when she finds him, he's a grown up, and not the same person that she knew. Jennifer Garner sparkles with charisma and sizzles with charm. There's great chemistry amongst the cast, and all of them makes this light-hearted tale work. A delightful and sweet fantasy.
If you are in the mood for light hearted ,funny,cute ,sweet and romantic see 13 Going on 30. I had seen this movie before and once I did I knew it was a keeper. 13 Going on 30 is the story of Jena who is 13 but thinks that her geekdom will end once she is in her 30's and she will become pretty and popular and have a gorgeous boyfriend. With some special powder her best friend Matty (who is also in love with her but she is unaware) gives us she gets her wish to become 30m flirty and fun. Jena learns though that being pretty and popular are not always the most important things in life epsecially when you lose the people that really mean the most to you. A journey of self discovery with some good lessons for young ones. Great movie for young adults.
she does such a good job acting like she is oblivious to what is going on. She still has her 13 year old mind and ideas, only in a 30 year old body. No one really understands her sponinaity. It seems she has no real fears, you just put something in front of her and she takes off with it cause, after all she is only in the seventh grade and that's what they do. Everyone fines her delighful escept the one bully in school that grows up only to be a bigger bully to get ahead in order to be a bigger bully . the one sad part of the story is her best friend who comes to find out that she has long written off to be with the in crowd and has not seen in years. She doesn't know this and it is something that she just can't seem to accept especialy when she finds out he's getting married. She stays as close as she can to him without letting on that she secretly loves him but on the day of the wedding she tells all. It does have a good ending but a little different than you mignt think. Wouldn't it be great if all of us could go back and stay an adult but look at things with a fresh look on life at thirteen.Read full review
This is such a delightful movie for so many reasons ... first of all, Jennifer Garner is absolutely adorable (both literally, and figuratively) as the lead character, Jenna Rink. She perfectly, and realistically, plays a 13-year old girl who is suddenly in the body (and life) of a 30 year old woman. The scenes from the 80's are a fun blast from the past, from Jenna's friend Matt's Casio keyboard, to the clothing, music, etc. And, adult Jenna's dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is, well, a thrill! Finally, Jenna's love-interest, her old friend Matt, is the most adorable, "shlubby" guy in the movies ... not the best-looking guy, but handsome in his own way. Mark Ruffalo does a great job of making Matt extremely appealing and loveable ... no wonder adult Jenna falls for him! I could go on and on about how cute and entertaining this movie is ... if you lived through the '80s, like Jennifer Garner or dig fluffy love-story (and/or underdog) movies, you need to see this one!Read full review
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