![]() R, for pervasive strong crude sexual content and language, some graphic nudity and drug use WITH: Ryan Reynolds (Mitch), Jason Bateman (Dave), Leslie Mann (Jamie), Olivia Wilde (Sabrina) and Alan Arkin (Mitch’s Dad).Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin It includes nudity, relentless profanity and scatological humor.ĭirected by David Dobkin written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore director of photography, Eric Edwards edited by Lee Haxall and Greg Hayden music by John Debney production design by Barry Robison costumes by Betsy Heimann produced by Mr. “The Change-Up,” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). No matter how diligently “The Change-Up” scrubs itself, it leaves behind a faint if unmistakable scent from its initial eruption. Inevitably succumbing to schmaltz, “The Change-Up” turns cloying in its perfunctory later scenes, in which each friend comes away from the ordeal having absorbed useful life lessons while in the body of his polar opposite. If both are adept comedians, neither has the wherewithal to begin to impersonate the other’s body language and thereby raise the farce to a higher comic level. Reynolds is several years younger) is glaring. Reynolds play together reasonably well, although their age difference (Mr. The big questions: Will Mitch, who has always secretly coveted Jamie, have his way with her? And in the end, whose penis belongs to whom? She knows only that something is terribly wrong.ĭave, cowering inside Mitch’s body, auditions for a “lorn” (light pornography) movie and is instructed to do nasty things to its grotesque, surgically altered female star. Jamie has no idea what has happened to him. To Jamie’s chagrin, her husband advises their oldest daughter to lash back at a bullying fellow ballet student. Once inside Dave’s body, Mitch is a criminally careless surrogate father who plunks his twin babies on a kitchen counter, where they clutch at knives and meat cleavers, reach into food processors, and explore electrical outlets. David Dobkin, the director of “The Change-Up,” is best known for “Wedding Crashers.” The similarities between the two movies aren’t coincidental: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have written both. But the premise at least sets up a farce that surpasses “The Hangover” in gleeful crudeness and profanity. The body-swapping premise, which is stale to begin with, isn’t explored with any depth, unless you find meaningful Freudian subtext in the movie’s relentless anal fixation. Until it is restored in a new location, they’re stuck. Discovering that the magic fountain has been removed, they panic. When Dave turns to the mirror, he sees Mitch, and vice versa. ![]() ![]() The next morning they discover that their idle wish has come true. When the lights return, the brooding expression on the face of the fountain’s statue has become a smirk. With a lightning flash, Atlanta momentarily blacks out. Kvetching about their petty discontents one drunken evening while urinating side by side into a public fountain, Dave and Mitch declare that they would like to live each other’s lives. Reynolds, Hollywood’s ranking male bimbo, whose infantile Mitch is so vacantly chirpy that he remains blissfully unaware that his lustful, foul-mouthed remarks to women might be the tiniest bit offensive. Mitch, an unemployed actor whose major credit is a role in a bologna commercial, is an extreme caricature of what used to be called a “toxic bachelor.” Still, he has no dearth of ravenous partners. He is so uptight that he blanches when a colleague raises an eyebrow over his necktie’s double Windsor knot. ![]() A successful corporate lawyer in Atlanta, gunning for a partnership, Dave is a dour workaholic with an attractive, high-strung wife, Jamie (Leslie Mann), and three young children. They have been best friends since third grade, though the movie offers no indication of any underlying kinship. The bodies swapped belong to the daddy, Dave Lockwood (Jason Bateman), and his bachelor buddy, Mitch Planko ( Ryan Reynolds). ![]() That muddy moment tells you exactly where you’ll be during the movie’s next hundred-plus minutes: toddling back and forth between the toilet and a sandbox stocked with inflatable sex dolls. Within the first three minutes of the body-swapping, farcical bromance “The Change-Up,” a gurgling baby boy unleashes a projectile explosion of poop into his daddy’s face during a morning diaper change. ![]()
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