“17 Again”
* 1/2 Rating | A guy wishes he’d taken a different road and gets that opportunity when he’s transported back to senior year of high school. Now Mike O’Donnell (Zac Efron) is a schoolmate to his kids and way too young to be hanging around his loved but estranged wife. The story is as familiar as it sounds. Director Burr Steers can’t calibrate the edge, which provide plenty of uncomfortable, not-so-funny moments. But he does capture star Efron’s quasar aura. Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann and Michelle Trachtenberg co-star. PG-13. 1 hour, 42 minutes. Lisa Kennedy
“The Haunting in Connecticut”
* 1/2 Rating | This latest film fright sinks or swims with the actors. Kyle Gallner makes a very convincing boy-about- to-die; Virginia Madsen is his properly stricken mom; and Martin Donovan, an underused leading man, plays the stressed, guilt-ridden dad well. The title is “Haunting,” not “Stabbing, Hatcheting or Butchered With a Machete in Connecticut,” so it won’t appeal to the hard-core gore crowd. But it has plenty of creep-you-out potential for kids just discovering big-screen horror. PG-13. 1 hour, 32 minutes. Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel
“Miss March”
* Rating | A cut-rate raunch comedy about two mismatched pals who take a road trip to see the ex-girlfriend who became a Playboy playmate, and it’s one of those painful comedies in which the strain to be funny shows — always. But the road trip that is the heart of the movie is as dull as the real drive from mid-America to the L.A. Playboy Mansion. Yes, hot lesbians pick up the lads hitchhiking. R. 1 hour, 36 minutes. Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel
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