Rating of
3/4
A gross out comedy that delivers laughs-a-plenty!
MovieAddict - wrote on 08/18/12
Hmmm, another body-switching comedy! From the peaks of Big, Freaky Friday, The Hot Chick and 17 Again with Face/Off being my guilty pleasure — I thought I’d seen them all but then along comes The Change-Up, a R-rated comedy version with a whole lot of F-bombers that gives a whole lot of meaning to the song “Sweet Cherry Pie”. It's slightly similar to Hall Pass with a little bit of Bridesmaids thrown in for good measure.
In the opening scene, we meet Dave (Jason Bateman). Dave is a successful lawyer with a loving wife, a sweet 5-year-old daughter and a couple of adorable, 2-year-old twins. His lifelong pal Mitch is played by Ryan Reynolds, a carefree, irresponsible, lazy, drug and alcohol addicted bachelor currently making "lorno" or "light porno" movies.
Both are bored with their lives and after a night of drunken carousing they (I kid you not) urinate into a fountain which, of course, has a magical statue of a Grecian goddess in it, simultaneously wish they had each other's lives, and voila they initiated the switch waking up the next morning, appalled to be each other.
Naturally the two eventually find a way to switch back, but only after lots of anxiety finding the fountain that had been moved the day after their incident.
Other key players include Leslie Mann as Dave's wife, and Olivia Wilde as the delectable Sabrina, a young associate lawyer at the firm Dave works at.
Despite its vulgarity and toilet humor, I enjoyed the performances of Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds. They are not the kind of people that you expect to switch bodies but they did their jobs well.
