texviller This movie is pure garbage. We see swearing, genitalia of babies and feces, absolutely not acceptable bestial shameless behavior. I barely stand 20 minutes after i wanted to puke. Horrible.

americangirlinuk Love this movie! Just wanted to say to the people writing reviews, his name is Jason Bateman, not Justin!! Really?? Buy it, you'll love it. Jason and Ryan are great and work together so well. I haven't seen the theatrical version, just the unrated so can't compare, but loved it. There is a lot of potty mouth in this movie, but I think it added to the hilarity and wouldn't have been the same without it, but may offend some I suppose. I'm so not easily offended so I was crackin up. I've never left a movie review before, but the people leaving a review without getting the main actors name right really irritated me. If you are going to take the time to write a review and give credit to a talented actor at least get the name right. How offensive to get Jason's name wrong!

yakketyak Stock standard body-swap film with very little going for it. The script is mostly unfunny and relies heavily on the "F" word for cheap chuckles. I'm not a prude and I don't object to bad language per se, but the sweary dialogue in this film is just banal. The behavior of the two male characters is unconvincing. The wife cries helplessly.No mother of 3 in their thirties has breasts like Leslie Mann in this film. I believe the nude scenes were shot with a body double and the breasts were digitally enhanced. So I guess it's saying that women are for bearing children while maintaining perfect bodies for the pleasure of their men. I found this offensive. I'm not a raging feminist, I just object to already beautiful women being digitally enhanced to make them look perfectly unreal. Don't we get enough of that sort of thing in magazines? And before anyone tells me to get a life, I have a life, and I like movies. Just not this one.

Turfseer 'The Change-Up' is an occasionally amusing farce involving two life-long friends who by sleight of hand, end up in one another's bodies. The big 'switch' occurs after a night of 'bromancing', where the two friends both find themselves urinating in front of a statue fountain, whose visage reminds one vaguely of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue appears to have some magical powers, which causes the transformation.Jason Bateman plays the 'straight' friend, Dave Lockwood, a workaholic attorney who is married with three kids in the suburbs. Ryan Reynolds plays Mitch Planko, his offbeat, somewhat vulgar friend, who provides the comic relief.Clearly the far more entertaining character is Mitch, who is continually pushing boundaries from the outset. So when Mitch becomes Dave, Dave has the much better part. We get to see how Mitch as Dave, upsets Dave's world. The humor comes from the fish out of water premise: Mitch simply doesn't fit into Dave's world—but somehow, in the end, he manages to improve it.For example, he eventually convinces the CEO of Dave's company to play hardball with a rival Japanese company, during a mediation, and Dave's company ends up making out like bandits. On the personal level, Mitch as David hilariously convinces Dave's daughter to meet 'violence with violence', so she retaliates after a school bully knocks her down during a ballet performance.Unfortunately when David pretends to be Mitch, there is no comic equivalence. The whole idea is that David needs to slow down and adopt Mitch's spontaneous lifestyle. There's nothing funny when he's forced to be aloof during Mitch's porno shoot, or the trip to the Aquarium or relaxing, watching a DVD of 'Animal House'. And there are also no laughs when he starts dating Sabrina, Dave's sexy colleague at work, where he finally learns to become more spontaneous.Mitch as Dave also falls into line, becoming more responsible as a good parent and eventually reconciling with his father, by attending his father's wedding. So by the end of the film, the best friends learn their valuable life lessons, but whatever humor was generated earlier, with the real Mitch doing his shtick and then Mitch as David doing his thing, is lost. Dave or Dave as Mitch, was never funny in the first place (regardless of the absurd 'poop attack' by Dave's infant, at the beginning of the film).A good part of 'The Change-Up' also relies on bathroom humor which has limited appeal. One particular scene that fails to fire is the big buildup for Dave's wife when she enters the bedroom, only to end up in the bathroom on the toilet, concentrating on a series of difficult bowel movements.In the end, this is a film that is mildly amusing in spots. Somehow if Dave also had some more significant idiosyncrasies like Mitch, this would have been a funnier film.