Synopsis
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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Cast
- Jason BatemanDave Lockwood
- Ryan ReynoldsMitch Planko
- Leslie MannJamie Lockwood
- Olivia WildeSabrina McArdle
- Alan ArkinMitch's Dad
- Gregory ItzinFlemming Steel
- Mircea MonroeTatiana
- Sydney RouviereCara Lockwood
- Matthew CornwellParks Foreman
- Craig BierkoValtan
Recommendations
- 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
ReelViews
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
Arizona Republic
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. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Soon enough it's back to stale jokes about spousal date nights. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The Change-Up bravely attempts to revive the dormant subgenre but it's a lame effort that grows increasingly frantic and foul-mouthed as the realization sets in that the gimmick isn't working. - 40
Variety
If "Freaky Friday" had an impudent, foul-mouthed little brother, it would be The Change-Up, an often needlessly crass, bromance-oriented spin on the body-swap comedy.
