The Change-Up

2011 "Who says men can't change?"
6.3| 1h52m| R| en
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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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RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Ricardo Daly The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Prismark10 Dave (Jason Bateman) is a corporate lawyer working his way up to partnership and a devoted family man. Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) is a womanising stoner who appears in soft core movies and is distant from his father who is re-marrying.Both envy each other's lifestyles and after peeing in a fountain they body swap.Now Mitch inside Dave's body finds that being a corporate lawyer working on a big merger is no fun while also doing chores for the kids and keeping a wife happy after she has had a Thai meal which gives her the runs.Dave now living Mitch's life finds out that making soft core films is no fun nor is trying to have sex with an extremely pregnant woman.The film has a lot of gross out humour and nudity. A baby crapping on Bateman's face for example. It mixes the body swap premise popular in the 1980s with the crude humour from The Hangover type of films.However despite Reynolds and Bateman having a nice chemistry the film is formulaic despite the rudeness and not really funny.
bignicknasty97 I'm gonna be honest here, I am not only high, but, I am also watching this on Comedy Central and missed the first hour and a half. I've only seen this movie in parts but pretty sure I watched it all the way through high once before. Just don't remember. It ends like this. The super successful businessman (Jason Batemam) who is actually (Ryan Reynolds) wins some mediation with all of his privileged old white coworkers win 720 million from a group of (I believe Japanese lawyers). Then the laid back immature cool dude (Ryan Reynolds) who is actually played by (Jason Bateman) gets to bang the hottest women in the entire movie but (JB) can't cheat on his wife so leaves. SIDE NOTE: "I don't personally find Ryan Reynolds attractive at all. I am not a homosexual man, but if I was I still would find him ugly". Then the commit public nudity in front of all these kids and adults in a mall and then they're themselves and are sleeping with the women again. 5/10
Python Hyena The Change-Up (2011): Dir: David Dobkin / Cast: Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin: Dreadful comedy about moving up in responsibility. It is one of those lame body switch rehashes with Jason Bateman as a successful lawyer with a wife and two children, and Ryan Reynolds as a struggling dope smoking actor. After a night on the town they discuss their issues then their bodies switch when they both urinate into a fountain. The rest is fairly predictable and lame. Director David Dobkin previously made another vulgar comedy called The Wedding Crashers. The difference is that film is actually funny while this one is just disgusting. We are given more images of naked children than what a child pornographer could keep up with. Even up close shots of a child's naked ass as sh*t shoots out and into the face and mouth of one of the characters. This is not funny, it's desperate. Even the foul language that is peppered through it comes off as a desperate last take a comedy. Bateman and Reynolds are both capable comic actors who have succeeded in far better films than this. Here they search for the fountain, which has been removed, so that they can urinate in it again and switch back. Leslie Mann is given the thankless role as Bateman's wife, and Olivia Wilde is cardboard as Bateman's co-worker who will be set up on a date with Reynolds. Both females are there for sexual jokes and insults. Alan Arkin plays the father of the Reynolds character and this is not a highlight of his resume. This is a dire comedy that should be pi**ed upon by a group of drunks. Score: 2 / 10
mathewmozaffari 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.