The Change-Up

Have you ever wanted to be someone else than yourself? I think we all thought the idea at some point. But does it really make you more happy? This is what The Change-Up brings up, switch your body along with your personality with someone else, and try and live a completely different life. The idea is not new in motion pictures, remember Big with Tom Hanks? Does the concept still work, or should it stay on the writers table?

Dave Lockwood ( Jason Bateman ) is a hard working lawyer, husband to his wife Jamie ( Leslie Mann ), and they have 3 kids. Dave wish he lived more like his best friend Mitch Planko ( Ryan Reynolds ), who sleeps with hot girls, party and just do whatever he feels like doing. They decide to have a boys night, just to have a good time. After a lot of drinks, and lots of laugh, they walk over to a fountain to pee. Dave says he wished he could live Mitch´s life. Something happends at that moment. The fountain makes that wish comes true, Dave and Mitch switch bodies. The next morning they find out what happened. Now they must live completely different lives untill they can go back to their own bodies.

There is nothing original about this movie, but who cares? This is really funny, and its a male comedy. Finally...we guys need comedies like this who says just what we think. We are not romantic, we dont like flowers and decorations. We love 3 things:

# Tits
# Friends
# More tits

I know this will make some girls pissed off. But The Change-Up wants to bring up the subject, how men in their 30´s try and live family life and leave everything else behind. And it is not possible. We guys have simple needs, we don´t care about shoe colors, hair cuts....no just simple things like a strip club and we are in heaven. There are alot of scenes with so many funny lines i had a really great time. It is the perfect male comedy for us in our 30´s, there is so much truth to this. Director David Dobkin has found the perfect balance for a comedy, where he tries to tell it like we men see things. One of the best male comedies for a long time, i´m getting this one on blu-ray for sure, along with some Carlsberg and pizza. Ok, maybe some striptease would be nice also....

Rating: DDDD