The Change-Up (2011)

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Year

2011

Runtime

1 h 52 min

Genre

Comedy

Country

United States

Director

David Dobkin

Writers

Jon Lucas, Scott Moore

Plotline

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 and they switch bodies.

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Starring

Ryan Reynolds

Jason Bateman

Leslie Mann

Olivia Wilde

Alan Arkin

Main cast

Ryan Reynolds Mitch Planko

Jason Bateman Dave Lockwood

Leslie Mann Jamie Lockwood

Olivia Wilde Sabrina McArdle

Alan Arkin Mitch's Dad

Mircea Monroe Tatiana

Gregory Itzin Flemming Steel

Ned Schmidtke Ted Norton

Ming Lo Ken Kinkabe

Sydney Rouviere Cara Lockwood

Dax Griffin Blow-Dried Goon

Andrea Moore Sophia

Matt Cornwell Parks Foreman

Craig Bierko Valtan

Taaffe O'Connell Mona

Fred Stoller Movie Set PA

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External critics' reviews

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. more

The real summit meeting here may be between the two leads. They're good at their specialties - Reynolds's casual jock studliness and Bateman's nervous white-collar introversion - and they're even better at switching into the other guy's shtick and mannerisms. more

I still think it's a funny movie, but given its genes, it's a bit of a slacker. more

If I must watch two men not be gay together for the 300th time this summer, those men should be Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds. more

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. more

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. more

You want a change-up? Here's a change-up: How about if Hollywood stops spoon-feeding us this uninspired pablum and comes up with a fresh idea or two? more

Sporadically hilarious but more often just plain crass and contrived. more

While there's some decent fun to be had in this fantasy world, The Change-Up drags on so long you may need to "visit the fountain" before Dave and Mitch become themselves again. more

The film is often funny and even more frequently vulgar, exploiting every last chance for raunch in the full-chassis exchange of two grown men. The only thing missing: male nudity. more

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