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The Change-Up

2011

David Dobkin

Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin ...

5.0

11,500

Comedy A family guy (Jason Bateman) switches bodies with his slacker best friend (Ryan Reynolds) in an effort to romance his co-worker (Olivia Wilde).

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It has a low opinion of men, a lower opinion of women, and the lowest opinion of the intelligence of its audience (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"As in Judd Apatow's phallocentric comic fantasies, the considerable raunch and implicit sexism of "The Change-Up" barely mask a worldview that's far from transgressive (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Bateman and Reynolds make The Change-Up seem a lot better than it is. Each earns a star in my review. The movie would be literally nothing without them (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"Yes, it’s sort of depressing to watch another comedy go out of its way to reinforce its protagonists’ heterosexuality. But if I must watch two men not be gay together for the 300th time this summer, those men should be Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"If 'Freaky Friday' had an impudent, foul-mouthed little brother, it would be The Change-Up, an often needlessly crass, bromance-oriented spin on the body-swap comedy"	NEU

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