You know what's awesome? Time travel. Particularly when it happens in movies and doesn't have to actually conform to any real physics or science, and doesn't really need to concern itself with the myriad paradoxes involved.
So Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) is a soon-to-be-divorcee who is/was married to Charlie (Nic Cage). Helen Hunt is their daughter, but that's not particularly important.
Their 25th high school anniversary is rapidly approaching, and turns out about how you'd expect - people are basically the same, the class clown (JIM CARREY!!!) is big into cocaine, the nerdly outcast is now a wealthy author, etc.
So Peggy Sue is elected queen of the
In some ways, it's a pretty typical go-back-and-fix-things from the same vein that brought out Being Erica, but it pulls it off fairly well, I think.
As for Cage, this is an interesting example of old Cage playing young Cage (which we just saw a mere five years earlier in that Best of Times ABC pilot). This time, he decides that in order to really sell the idea that he's a teenager again, he needs a funny voice. So he dons a funny voice.
And poofy hair. And enormous sunglasses.
I don't know why. Particularly because young Charlie fancies himself as the next lead singer in the next gigantic four-piece singing group.
Featuring, yes, JIM CARREY!!!
Unsurprisingly, Charlie's dulcet tones and simply stupendous sense of personal style end up winning the jaded-and-cheated-upon-soon-to-be-divorcee-in-her-own-teenage-body Peggy Sue that what they had in high school is, indeed, worth not undoing. Happily ever after, and all that.
Overall, good movie. Not what you'd call a stellar and moving film, but entertaining enough in its own right, and like I said, time travel movies are awesome.
Oh, did I mention that it has JIM CARREY (!!!) in it?
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