10 Things About 2000s Movies That Everyone Misses Today
8. Whimsical Time Travel
How many kids in the noughties went to bed every night wishing that they'd wake up in a different time, body, or place? Oh their poor little faces the next morning.
You can't blame the little tykes for getting their hopes up, as the decade was jam-packed with movies about people manipulating time through one method or another in delightful, often totally passive ways.
Take the film 17 Again starring Zac Efron and Matthew Perry. After realising that his life has not gone the way he wanted it to, Perry's character is magically transformed into his 17-year-old self, played by Efron.
Yeah, 'cos that's what Chandler Bing looked like in his teens.
A similar movie is 13 Going on 30, in which Jennifer Garner plays a 13-year-old girl who unexpectedly wakes up as her 30-year-old self.
Chuck in movies like Idiocracy and Click, and you've got a very rounded set of films with very silly time travel mechanics.
There's no way films like this would get made in a post-Marvel world, which is a shame because there was a certain magical quality about these movies.
At least fewer kids are now waking up disappointed.