Rating of
3.5/4
Great comedy with dialog that is true to life
Josh C - wrote on 04/07/07
Swingers is the great transformation of two friends, Trent who has always been the ?Cool? guy and Mike who is the looser. Mike, John Favreau, is feeling desperate and pitiful after breaking up with his girlfriend of six year. Six months has passed and he is still obsessing over her and Trent, Vince Vaughn, is trying to get him to have fun being single by taking him to Vegas and picking up cute ?honeys?.
As the movie goes on their transformation becomes apparent: Trent may be cool on the surface but he is really the looser and Mike is the cool one. This transformation or realization is subtle that it is easy to miss if you haven?t been in either of their situations before. Unfortunately, most people have been in Mike?s situation before and it is easy to relate to him even if he is the extreme. I related to his lack of confidence and sense of vulnerability after a break up and having friends try to pick up the pieces and have fun. The aspect of Mike?s friends giving him advice all along while the whole time he just needed to do it for himself so he could be who he really is, is what makes this movie so true to life.
The dialog and chemistry between Mike and Trent is unique and funny. Their friends characters, all of which are aspiring actors as well, keep things interesting. They all believe in friendship but are all so into themselves that their advice is not something they follow themselves. In the end you find out their advice is bad and is why they are really the same as Mike the whole time; they just hide it better. At the end Mike is the one is realizes this is starting to become happy while Trent has realized this the whole time which is why he was always telling Mike ?You are so money and you don?t even know it.?
