The Change-Up
Directed by David Dobkin
Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes.… From TMDB
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On Rotten Tomatoes, The Change-Up has an approval rating of 26% based on 157 reviews, and an average rating of 4.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "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." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 39 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. British newspaper The Telegraph named The Change-Up one of the ten worst films of 2011, saying "Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman have skill, charm,…
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16 of 16 · most liked firstI switched The Change-Up off. That is a terrible film.
unlabelledView post →Mitch Planko is not a real person or doctor, but rather the fictional, carefree bachelor character portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in the 2011 body-swap comedy movie The Change-Up
unlabelledView post →My ★★★★ review of The Change-Up on @letterboxd: boxd.it/3cESHb
unlabelledView post →John Smoltz describing the plot to the Bateman-Reynolds movie The Change-Up as an analogy for the Brewers-Dodgers series might be the most I’ve enjoyed Smoltz as a broadcaster.
unlabelledView post →Meet The Spartans. But since that's so incompetent that it barely counts as a professional movie, I'm going to say The Change-Up, which is kind of Freaky Friday For Men. One guy learns to not respect women, the other guy learns that babies shit in your face and almost fall into blenders a lot
unlabelledView post →Sharing a scene from one of mine and wifey’s favourite films THE CHANGE UP We quote this film as much as we do Goon with Sean William Scott😉😂😂😂
unlabelledView post →128/365 The Change-Up (2011) | Ticket Stub Movie Club 🎟 Patreon.com/ticketstubmovieclub join for more! Full video available on YouTube and TikTok tomorrow #thechangeup #jasonbateman #ryanreynolds #oliviawilde #freakyfriday
unlabelledView post →Free Guy is a Great movie! I have loved Ryan Reynolds since "Waiting". My absolute favs are "The Change Up" and the "Hitman's Bodyguard" movies.
unlabelledView post →🎬Current Viewing🎬 The Change-Up (2011) one of the sub genres I'm a sucker for is body swap movies (another is time travel), I'm likely to give them a chance whether it's somebody ageing up or down or swapping bodies with another person, it's fair to say that like any subgenre it is a mixed CONT'D
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Change-Up 1080p (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.1 (Movies Anywhere) Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, Mircea Monroe
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Change-Up 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.1 Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, Mircea Monroe
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Change-Up 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.1 Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, Mircea Monroe
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Change-Up 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.1 Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, Mircea Monroe
unlabelledView post →I love having a movie that I am not 100% against, or interested in, come on and then deciding "yeah, this isn't for me." Today's movie: The Change-Up.
unlabelledView post →I watched ‘The Change Up’ with Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds, and that is a very very very wild movie.
unlabelledView post →Great watch, would watch again, and can recommend. This is probably my favorite "body swap" trope movie. It's Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman for crying out loud. If you've ever liked anything they've ever done (aside from "Green Lantern") then you'll probably like this. Seeing them do "impressions" of each other is a bonus. As far as "body swapping" goes, I think this is the only non-parent child, non-male female swap that I've seen, which is probably what makes it a lot of fun: there's no…
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