The Change-Up (2011)
Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Jason Bateman, Fred Stoller, Leslie Mann, Ming Lo, Olivia Wilde, Gregory Itzin, Ryan Reynolds, Mircea Monroe, Frances Cobb, Alan Arkin, TJ Hassan, Ned Schmidtke, Sydney Rouviere, Craig Bierko, Dax Griffin, Andrea Moore, Matthew Cornwell, Taaffe O'Connell, Bailey Anne Borders, Clay Chamberlin, Jeanine Jackson, Jamie Renell, Kenny Alfonso, Joe Knezevich, Matthew Stanton, Gabe Wood, Ed Ackerman, Vickie Eng, Amber Seyer, Anna Colwell, Steven Dean Davis, Suzanne Arkin, Patricia French, Jeanette Miller, Greg Savage, Adam Boyer, Matthew Rimmer, Ken DeLozier, Paul Barlow Jr., Anthony G Breed, Gary Babiarz, Dimitrius Pulido, Blake Goza, Arin Logan, Martha B. Knighton, Michael Beasley, Clay Edmund Kraski, Courtney Amis, India Batson, Nadej k Bailey, Lisa M. Barfield, Peter den Boer, Holly Britt, Stephanie Champion, Orlando Vargas Diaz, Hilena Haileselassie, Bradford Haynes, Jaanika Kaarpalu, Grant Kersey, Scott Ledbetter, Patterson Lundquist, Josiah Lyricq, Todd Maynor, Tabatha Minchew, Miles Mussenden, Joseph C. Nelson, William Palmer Jr., Anna Rappaport, Steven Reddington, Joel Rogers, Sherrod Sisco, Joshua Tanksley, Lesley E. Warren, Gloria Webber
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Reviews
80
Boxoffice Magazine
Despite all the boobs, The Change-Up is very fair to its female characters-well, at least to Mann and Wilde, who both ring true, even if Wilde is almost too good to be true...It sounds like a trifling detail, but those details are sorely missing from most "date movies," in which even the women laughing in the audience exit feeling like they're the butt of the joke.
63
Distilled to its basics, it's little more than a sit-com that has been tarted up with scenes of projectile poop, odd sexual fetishes, and knife wielding babies. It all seems a little tired and, more importantly, not as funny as it should be.
60
Village Voice
The film's final dialogue exchange reveals The Change-Up to be one long setup to a bromantic joke that, in a roundabout way, maybe comes closer than any previous film to fulfilling that woebegone subgenre's implicit homoerotic endgame.
50
It's hard not to be disappointed with The Change-Up, which in the end follows the basic conventions of the switched-identity genre, if more profanely, changing up not much at all.
50
Slant Magazine
Yet as is so often the case with the frat-boy genre to which this film panders, so many gags feel like desperate, self-conscious attempts to be outrageous that the effect of its abundant cursing and boob shots is more depressing than delirious.
