The Change-Up (2011)
Dave is a married man with two kids and a loving wife, and Mitch is a single man who is at the prime of his sexual life. One fateful night while Mitch and Dave are peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes, they switch bodies.
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hyped garbage
Good concept, poorly executed.
True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Yes I get it. U switch body's with another person. We have seen that before. Crazy thing is this movie is like Daddy's Home too. The humor in this movie is 10% better. So many jokes :)
I like the idea of this movie, the casting is great and everybody is doing his/her job. I had few laughs and as I have written above, if you like comedies and have some time to kill, this is a good choice.However, I think that they could have played a little bit more with the script. At the beginning, we are "told" that Mitch's life is great and Dave's not so much. Of course, a viewer with an average intelligence knows that things are not always as they seem. However, I think that in the end Mitch's life was portrayed really negatively and all perks and good moments in the "Mitch's body" had to be created by Dave himself. What I mean is that writers could have maybe worked a little bit more on Mitch's character.
Honestly, I really enjoyed this film. It wasn't a film that had amazing performances and an original plot, but I still enjoyed it because it was a film that its vulgar, comedic and sentimental moments - all put together. For instance, in some scenes that were very sentimental, they were able to balance out the mood with humour. Not too much humour, but just enough which made the film great. In addition, I said that the performances weren't great, but Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds still had great characters and portrayed them very well. In summary, this is simply a good movie that would be great to watch with friends and have a laugh at.
The Change Up is a body swapping comedy about two men,one whom is a loving dotting father named Dave(played by Jason Bateman) who is fed up with his life as his wife (played by Leslie Mann from George of the jungle)is always whining and always has Dave minding the twins,while the other is a porn actor called Mitch(played by Ryan Reynolds)who enjoys getting it on with women. But their lives will change forever when they leak into a fountain one night and wish to swap each other's lives,leading them to swap places. Now Mitch is Dave,and Dave is Mitch and they have to try and find the fountain in order to go back to their normal lives. But can they really pull off as each other.Overall this film is hilarious. The comedy is rude and hilarious and im not really a fan of rude comedies except for Dumb & Dumber as that is my favourite comedy of all time but this one was really(and I mean) REALLY RUDE and disgusting.If you are a fan of Reynolds and sex comedies with A lot of nudity then check it out. Keep your ears open for the Chuck music theme(starring Zachary Levi) in this film near the middle half of the film.Overall its a 5 out of 10 for the film and the comedy gets a 6 out of ten. 5.6 out of 10.