The Change-Up


Growing up together, Mitch (Reynolds) and Dave (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. To Mitch, Dave has it all: beautiful wife Jamie (Leslie Mann), kids who adore him and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. To Dave, living Mitch's stress free life without obligation or consequence would be a dream come true.

MY REVIEW:

I don't really know how to say this but I like it and I didn't like it.  I love the actors; HATE the characters, the vulgarity and the crude humor.  To me this movie is similar to "Hall Pass" except Ryan Reynolds plays this very relaxed man who has no job, no real purpose or direction for his life. He drinks, he smokes pot and he has different women in and out of his apartment constantly.  He is very vulgar and really, he's a huge jerk.  Then you have Dave who is an over stressed married man, he has a gorgeous wife (Leslie Mann) and he is too busy working and trying to get ahead in his law office to realize his life is falling apart at home.  His wife has been suffering in silence for the better part of their marriage and for the last five years it's really been getting hard for her.  One drunken night they pee in a fountain and "wish I had your life" changes both their lives.  Mitch is Dave, Dave is Mitch.  It’s a best friend’s version of Freaky Friday.  Needless to say Mitch turns Dave’s very up-tight character into a cursing jerk instead of a loving, hard working family man.  And Dave, well he is enjoying his freedom in Mitch's body, for the most part.  There are so many parts of this movie I shook my head at.  Even my husband who usually likes these kinds of movies was a little taken back but the language and so many aspects of the movie, like the breasts all over the place.  I could barely watch it, it was very hard to listen to it, and I don't like nudity in my movies.  My house doesn't allow swearing, even though sometimes it slips out.  But this movie was really too much for me, no one really swears that much.  Ryan and Jason were great playing the "opposite" characters but I wish this movie had have been a lot more tastefully done.

MPAA Rating: R (for pervasive strong crude sexual content and language, some graphic nudity and drug use)

I would not recommend this movie to anyone who does not like vulgarity, nudity, drug use, crude humor.  Not a movie for the whole family in any way.

4 THUMBS DOWN.

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