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39 out of 100

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5.5 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 74 Ratings

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  • Starring: Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde, Ryan Reynolds
  • Summary: Growing up together, Mitch and Dave 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, 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. 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. (Universal Pictures) … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 35
  3. Negative: 9 out of 35
  1. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Amy Nicholson
    Aug 2, 2011
    80
    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.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Karina Longworth
    Aug 2, 2011
    60
    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.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    Aug 4, 2011
    38
    As it is, the audience must content itself with baby poop, naughty words and the female anatomy at its pneumatic extreme, while Bateman and Reynolds's search for transcendence continues.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 33
  3. Negative: 7 out of 33
  1. conboydude
    6
    This movie is full of Boobs and sexual comments as well as being very inappropriate front of children. It was fun at points but nothing that made me really laugh it was all in all a well portrayed film… Expand
    • 2 of 3 users said yes
  2. NJWolfgang
    5
    Rather predictable. Some amusing moments and some rather disconcerning moments where actors perform rather dangerous scenes with infants. You surely don't want kids watching this one.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. Kadeemluvmusic
    2
    Not a good year for Ryan Reynolds and that's why "The Change-Up" was a big flop. I think this is one of the worst raunchy R-rated comedy of 2011. Sorry Ryan, if you want to make a mere good ol' comedy, try hooking up with Sandra Bullock or Milla Kunis.… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes

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