The body switch film is not a very original idea at all, there's been plenty in the past, It's A Boy Girl Thing, Freaky Friday and my personal fave, the Aussie classic Dating The Enemy, this however makes itself stand out from the crowd thanks to it's being a film solely aimed at adults. There's no way this movie is suitable for anyone under 14.

Within the first 5 minutes I was laughing hysterically and that laughter continued pretty much all throughout the film with the exception of a few slow patches, it really is a great laugh riot. Ryan Reynolds returns to his comedy roots quite well and Jason Bateman is funnier in this than anything else I've seen him in. Olivia Wilde is OK as the bad girl but she's kinda unnecessary, Leslie Mann is great in all her type cast glory as the funny wife, I suppose you should do what you're good at and she certainly does.

All the toilet humor in this movie is hilarious, I usually find that kind of humor cheap and lame but in this I thought it was hilarious, it's still gross but hey if it makes you laugh it does it's intended job. The only real downside to The Change Up is the side plot of Ryan Reynolds and his relationship with his father, it was kinda useless, and also the extremely long running time, in my opinion comedies shouldn't exceed the hour and a half mark and this film goes for close to 2 hours, that's far too long for this caliber of film but it kept delivering the laughs so I guess we can forgive that.

There is a lot of fun to be had with The Change Up, just don't watch it if you're grossed out easily or expecting a truly amazing comedy, just take it for what it is which is a very entertaining adult comedy, with lots of gross out gags and plenty of laughs. Tis' a pretty rad movie.