The Change-Up (2011)

• Year: 2011
• Released: 05 Aug 2011
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488555/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/The_Change_Up
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-change-up
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Ukrainian
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
• Runtime: 112 min
• Writer: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
• Director: David Dobkin
• Cast: Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Olivia Wilde
• Keywords: jealousy, co-worker relationship, wish, body-swap, chance,

	6.3/10
	39/100
	25% – Critics
	47% – Audience

The Change-Up Storyline

In Atlanta, Dave Lockwood and Mitch Planko have been best friends since they were kids, despite their divergent adult paths. Dave is the model of responsibility and over-achievement, he on the verge of making partner at the law firm where he works, despite largely disagreeing with his overly critical and opinionated direct boss, Flemming Steel. He has been married to his childhood sweetheart Jamie for ten years, they who have three children, the two parenting them using every politically correct theory. Mitch is an untrained struggling actor. In his slacker lifestyle, he is usually stoned or in bed with one of his plethora of casual female sex partners. But neither Dave or Mitch is truly happy, each wanting just a little of what the other has. Dave, while truly loves Jamie, secretly lusts after his newly hired associate, Sabrina McArdle, with who he has a professional “look but don’t touch” attitude. Mitch sees Dave’s life through the lens of the crazy uncle. He has a distant relationship with his own father, who loves his son but knows he could be so much more in his life. Out drinking together one night, Dave and Mitch are magically switched into the other’s body on a simultaneous and impromptu wish at a fountain for the other’s life. As they try to figure out how to switch back to their own life, they are both able to see their best friend’s life from a different perspective, as well their own life through the eyes of someone else. Through it all, they both have mixed emotions about what is happening to them: they still want a little of what the other has with the mentality of who they truly are as people, while trying to protect the life they’ve built which the other may easily wipe out with one wrong move.

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Living the fast life

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.

A Longing For The Other One’s Life

Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman play a pair of friends who get their minds rerouted into each other’s bodies and now have to deal with how the other half lives. As is the case in these kinds of films it’s not so easy living another’s life no matter how well you think you know the other person.

Especially with these two. Bateman works for a white shoe Atlanta law firm and these guys look more at home on Wall Street than Peachtree Street. In fact that’s one of the more interesting things in The Change-Up. I swear but I did not hear one accent that sounded like it came from Georgia. Bateman is explained somewhat that he was educated in the Ivy League and clerked for Justice David Souter. Then again so was Ben Matlock similarly educated. Bateman is married with wife Leslie Mann and he’s all about career.

Reynolds is an ace screw up, he’s on the latest of many careers, he’s now doing soft core porn although he says he’s an actor. These two guys truly should have drifted apart.

But after a night of merriment and carousing the two feel the need to bleed the old lizard and both express a longing for the other one’s life. And then the Grecian goddess statue of the fountain they’re relieving themselves grants the wish.

If you saw Walt Disney Studios Freaky Friday you know exactly what’s going to happen here. The only difference here is that we have some more adult situations than Disney Studios would have in their pictures.

Reynolds and Bateman work hard, but this is all very tired material.

It’s all been done before

Friends for life Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman) are starting to drift apart as their lifestyle divert. Dave is overworked, rich but wants more freedom. Mitch is single, freewheeling but wants Dave’s success. One drunken night, they crossed streams while peeing and switched bodies. They get their wishes, but is it really what they want?

Leslie Mann is really funny in one scene as Dave’s wife. But the movie is just mostly tiresome and unlikeable. The over the line gross out humor is just trying too hard. It’s a body switch movie and it feels tired.