The Change-Up
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39 out of 100

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5.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 93 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)




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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. New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Reviewed by: Mike Scott
    Aug 5, 2011
    50
    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?
  4. 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: 24 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 38
  3. Negative: 7 out of 38
  1. vscarter
    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
  2. rjfoxtrot
    8
    The Change-Up is a great best friends movie. While those who don't have a specific best friend who they've known since childhood might not enjoy this, all best friends should find it hilarious and heartwarming, if you can believe it. Bateman and Reynalds are phenomenal together, and their female counterparts do a bang-up job too. Though some may find it offensive and disgusting (especially a scene where Bateman's infant son craps in his mouth), this movie is well done and definitely worth your time.… Expand
  3. Tranquilbez22
    6
    You wouldn't think an R rated comedy starring Ryan Reynalds and Jason Batemen would be full of boobs,bums, sexual content and even batemen being shat upon by his eighteen month old son. Reynalds and Bateman have great chemestry and props to both Leslie Mann and Olivia Wilde for getting your gear off and doing it graciously. The movie falls flat with the script, it's half funny,half grating. Though every character is charming and great, the execution of the script however was meh. I thought it was a pretty decent comedy but not as great as other movies are. worth a rental… Expand
  4. 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

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