The Change-Up
User Score
5.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 93 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 57 out of 93
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 93
  3. Negative: 18 out of 93

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  1. vscarter
    Aug 6, 2011
    10
    This would have been a very good movie if they would have left out all the cursing, even though a lot of adults would not take their kids to see an R rated movie, this movie had the characters using very vulgar language in front of children. It seems like directors, writers, and producers think they their movie won't make any money if they don't have vulgarity and sexual all the way through, but all of this takes away from the movie...… Expand

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Metascore
39 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 35 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 35
  3. Negative: 9 out of 35
  1. Empire
    Reviewed by: Nick de Semlyen
    Sep 12, 2011
    40
    Despite the promise of the title, this a fairly stale offering, plodding through the beats of a well-worn subgenre but failing to add much more than a foul mouth.
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  2. Slate
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    Aug 6, 2011
    20
    To call The Change-Up misogynistic would be to shortchange the equal-opportunity disgust this anal-regressive film demonstrates toward men, babies, old people, and corporeal existence in general.
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  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    Aug 6, 2011
    40
    It's occasionally funny and a lot painful.
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