Review of The Change-Up (2011) by Andrew Y — 25 Nov 2012
After seeing the trailer I was looking forward to seeing this. The poster says its from the directors of Wedding Crashers and the writers of The Hangover so was hoping for a very good movie. Unfortunately it was not. Its actually pretty rubbish.
Its actually got a good cast but even they can't save this movie. The 2 main stars are Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds - 2 really good charismatic actors - but this movie is awful. (Actually its not all awful but more into that in a bit). In the opening few minutes of the movie we see a creepy fake baby poo into Jason Bateman's mouth and Ryan Reynold's character say one of the babies looks a bit "Downsy". Maybe if you find that type of "humour" funny, then you will love this movie.
Apparently the 2 main characters are best friends and have known each other since school. However, they have nothing in common.
The 2 "leading" woman in the movie are Leslie Mann and Olivia Wilde. We get to see a fair bit of Leslie Mann - actually we got see an awful lot of her. I didn't expect to see her boobs and bum in this movie. (To be fair she looks beautiful). Olivia Wilde didn't feature in this movie enough and her talents were wasted. She seemed to just be in the movie to look hot - (which she did).
I mentioned earlier that this movie was awful. The first 1 hour was rubbish. It was not helped by the opening few minutes I mentioned earlier but then the last 30-45 mins was actually OK and there were a few LOL moments.
(If I was just rating the first hour it would get about 1 out of 5).
This review of The Change-Up (2011) was written by Andrew Y on 25 Nov 2012.
The Change-Up has generally received mixed reviews.
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