The Change-Up (2011)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 146
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 109
There's a certain amount of fun to be had from watching Bateman and Reynolds play against type, but it isn't enough to carry The Change-Up through its crude humor and formulaic plot.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 33
There's a certain amount of fun to be had from watching Bateman and Reynolds play against type, but it isn't enough to carry The Change-Up through its crude humor and formulaic plot.
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Growing up together, Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman) were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed they've slowly drifted apart. While Dave is an overworked lawyer, husband and father of three, Mitch has remained a single, quasi-employed man-child who has never met a responsibility he liked. Following a drunken night out together, Mitch and Dave's worlds are turned upside down when they wake up in each other's bodies and proceed to freak the &*#@ out. Despite the
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Cast
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Ryan Reynolds
Mitch, Mitch Planko -
Jason Bateman
Dave, Dave Lockwood -
Leslie Mann
Jamie, Jamie Lockwood -
Olivia Wilde
Sabrina, Sabrina McArdl... -
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 -
Matthew Cornwell
Parks Foreman -
Craig Bierko
Valtan -
Taaffe O'Connell
Mona -
Cooper Gore
Neighbor's Kid -
Fred Stoller
Movie Set PA -
Faith Alhadeff
Nicolette Peters -
Luke Bain
Peter Lockwood -
Lauren Bain
Sarah Lockwood -
Vickie Eng
Erin Walsh -
Jamie Renell
Lawyer -
Amber Seyer
Beautiful Woman -
Kenny Alfonso
Businessman at Sonsie C... -
Joe Knezevich
Amalgamated Exec -
T.J. Hassan
Kinkabe Lawyer -
Matt Stanton
PA -
Patricia French
Dave's Secretary -
Jeanette Miller
Grandma Taylor -
Gabe Wood
Neighbor -
Greg Savage
Contruction Worker -
Adam Boyer
Tattoo Artist -
Ed Ackerman
Victor -
Jeanine Jackson
Carla Nelson -
Bailey Anne Borders
Babysitter -
Anton Mertens
Amalgamated Attorney -
Anna Colwell
Cute Girl in Elevator -
Paul Barlow, Jr.
Amalgamated Attorney -
Steven Dean Davis
Tattoo Artist -
Anthony Breed
Amalgamated Attorney -
Suzanne Arkin
Pamela -
Jason Benjamin
Amalgamated Attorney -
Gary Babiarz
Amalgamated Attorney -
Dimitrius Pulido
Greased-Up Lorno Guy -
Matthew Rimmer
Tattoo Artist -
Clay Chamberlain
Boom Operator -
Blake Goza
First AD -
Ken Delozier
Minister -
Ryter Shay Cannon
Tommy -
Arin Logan
Sexy Girl In Bar -
Martha Bird Knighton
Old Lady -
Lindsey Blackwell
Little Girl -
Michael Beasley
Security Guard -
Clay Edmond Kraski
Security Guard -
Lindsey Walden
Photo Double -
Jeremie Lippmann
Construction Worker, Co...
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All Critics (148) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (109) | DVD (3)
You'd have to call the whole undertaking workmanlike rather than inspired.
Top CriticPee-pee humor abounds in The Change-Up. There's also a lot of poo-poo humor. And ta-ta humor.
This comedy doesn't work very well.
It's occasionally funny and a lot painful...
The Change-Up goes downhill faster than a snowboarder strapped to a jetpack.
Bateman, as always, is surpassingly good, even when the material isn't.
The Change-Up is a comedy that can't find it's proper place in the demographic of anyone by freakishly pushing the boundaries of taste.
Overlong and overly obvious
It's easy to recommend The Change-Up for its over-the-top laughs and a pair of solid leads that succeed in offering a raunchy twist on a familiar formula.
A foul misfire that favors sex and gross-out gags over its somewhat affecting plot about married life and single life, and the sacrifices we all make for one or the other.
The key to the film is the chemistry between Reynolds and Bateman, who work off each other but can also be very funny in their own scenes.
Luckily (Bateman and Reynolds') comic timing is convincing, otherwise this would be a total waste of time.
The posters promise a film from the director of Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin) and the writers of The Hangover (Jon Lucas/Scott Moore). Pure rubbish ( ... ) would have been more accurate.
Rude, coarse and morally repugnant.
What is different from previous examples of the body-swap genre, such as Big and Freaky Friday, is the full-on gross-out humour the film supplies instead of wit and charm.
Like the copious pooh that his baby son squirts into Bateman's mouth during a nappy change, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
The poop jokes are the only memorable ones.
Might have been a decent piece of entertainment.
Universal Pictures brings you more vile rubbish from the writers of Four Christmases and The Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, and the director of Fred Claus.
[A] largely uninspired identity-switch comedy.
The writers keep the swift chatter coming, and the stars have a good time assuming each other's personas.
Flee, flee from all of it.
The body-swap comedy gets a mighty shake-up here, with Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman cheerfully breaking all the boundaries of taste.
Audience Reviews for The Change-Up
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- Dave: He didn't tell me you were a big, fat, fucking boner.
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- Sabrina: So, ah, I'll have my briefs on your desk by lunch.
- Dave: That puts my balls on your chin by dinner.
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- Mitch: Ohhh, look at these little... fuckers!
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- Mitch: Cause all Tatiana wants to do at three in the morning is...
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- Jamie: Before making any decision in your life, no matter how small, call your wife first. Think of yourself as a brain-damaged mule, lost in a desert, helpless, dumb, and in constant need of direction. Never take the initiative, never strike out on your own, and never deviate from the plan. Why? Because you're a brain-damaged mule and you're lost in the damn desert!
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- Mitch Planko: Life doesn't always turn out exactly how you plan it. Sometimes, just sometimes, it turns out better.
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Latest News on The Change-Up
April 25, 2013:
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January 30, 2012:
Rooney Mara Joins Soderbergh's Side EffectsShe steps into the role originally meant for Blake Lively.
August 16, 2011:
Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy Are Guilty of The ID TheftDuo signs for the comedic tale of a man whose identity is stolen by an unscrupulous woman.
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So it turned out to be funnier than I thought it was going to be. I chuckled a couple times, but it doesn't work on so many levels. It relies on a very unoriginal premise that we've seen countless times before and gross out gags that it too often, and embarassingly proudly, poses as witty and hilarious good humour. Consequently it's simply juvenille and mediocre. The Change-Up is pretty much a post Hangover comedy flick that thinks what made The Hangover as funny as it was meant shouting, swearing, and flinging poo everywhere in our faces. It's lead Jason Bateman is more than capable of taking on comedy roles and he has proven that many times in the past. He's above teeth grittingly low brow films like this. On a positive note, he and Ryan Reynolds are perfectly cast and naturally make a screen couple with comedic timing. Unfortunately that chemistry would have worked so much better if they were together on a project with superior material to offer. Essentialy what they're given is a boring, predictable, forgettable, ocassionaly sweet but ultimately dislikable comedy that has nothing more to offer than a few cheap laughs. It's downfall is due in most part to it's increasingly familiar jokes, that it even at times struggles to duplicate.