Jenna Rinks is an awkward 13-year-old girl the singular wish that she could be 30 and glamorous. She dreams of being an adult with life by with the coat tails and not having to deal with all the problems of adolescence. She wants to be in the right crowd, and even dating the right guy with all the wonders of adulthood. So when her best friend Matt also an awkward 13-year-old gives her some wishing dust for her birthday she wishes for all this to happen. And after playing the party game Seven Minutes in the Closet, she emerges from the closet just days shy of her 30th birthday, looking fabulous and feeling fierce. While the adjustment is weird at first she quickly tries to adapt herself to her new lifestyle as she has missed the last 17 years and is not even sure who she is anymore. So she tracks down her old friend Matt and tries to piece together this wonderful life she has inherited. But she quickly finds out its not everything she thought it would be as her former self was callow and the one person that had always been there for her doesn’t even know her anymore as she distanced herself from family and friends to achieve her dreams. Now she wonders if her wish might have been a mistake and if there is anyway to go back and fix all the things that went wrong in the years she missed.

If the bubble gum pop music genre could be transferred into a movie, this movie would be it. The movie is bubbly, it is sensuous, and it is not all that bad but at the same time there is really nothing below the surface. The movie is heading for the predictable ending and the happily ever after like a car careening for a cliff’s edge, you want to stop it but the brakes seem to have gone out. Part of the problem is the overly used premise of the movie as you know what to expect and there is no surprises in the move, the other part of the problem is that they don’t seem to care that they are beating a dead horse to death. The movie is clearly aimed for a particular audience group as it is not ashamed of in the least of being a chick flick. Jennifer Garner will learn from her mistakes, and she will win the heart of the boy she once scorned and that is her true love. What did work about the movie is how well Jennifer Garner was able to pull of a confused teenager trapped in a woman’s body, you could almost see her as that awkward 13-year-old girl which says a lot of her acting abilities. It is a shame that the movie could not find her a better script though to shine for though. The movie does have its moments and is funny at times and I am pretty sure the target audience it is aimed for will love the movie and for those of us outside that core group there is just enough hilarity to keep us laughing and not totally disappointed.
2.5 stars out of 5